James Gan succeeded in Superman

by Chris Senelgov
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After the success of James Gan SupermanThe fans were asking how this film managed to rise while many other super films (including Thunderbolt and Fantastic Four: First Steps) to fail. There are many theories, starting with fans who simply admire more general excitement of the audience of this new cinematic universe. However, I have a simpler theory: Superman I succeeded in the first place because Gun threw the exit Contracts From the story of the capital’s stories by allowing his characters to have reliable human defects.

The net confused, because this theory requires a brief lesson of history: almost from the beginning, DC characters like Superman have been written as ideal models with few defects (if any). Golden Age man of steel You can falsify planets, for example, while Batman wrote the greatest investigator on the entire planet. Flash He was the fastest man in the world, and the wondrous woman was a literal goddess, and so on.

when marvel They started competing with the capital, they did this by giving their characters more connected: Spider-Man had great powers, but he was constantly struggling with money and emotional life. Hulk had the amazing power, but he had to worry about harming innocents. Wolfirin He was almost unpopular, but the healing factor made him a target of nefarious government forces caused several times to torture on his body, mind, etc.

Interestingly, the capital continued to write characters as perfect models, thanks to the star’s authors such as Grant Morrison writes both Batman and Superman as deities in the same Pandex Pantheon like Wonder Woman. This atmosphere continued with DCEU, where Zack Snyder Superman treated foreign Christ, to his death and resurrection. Batman against Superman Snyder’s mocking vision was mainly for these heroes, as the movie depicts the heroic trinity as divine beings, with Lake Luther Compared directly the steel man with the god who, at the estimation of the villain, cannot be “everything good”.

Snyder has an interesting approach to films such as making modern legend, and his approach to dealing with his characters like the gods instead of people who certainly gained the fans. But given that the Dceu was shattered and burned after a declining segment that started with criticism Batman against SupermanIt is fair to say that this approach alienates more fans than what it got. And the late version of Snyder Justice Association I felt (which, in order to be fair, was better than Jos Woodon) Years.

James Gan I tried something completely different with SupermanWe gave a very, very flawed and weak hero. He is able to physically overcome it by Lex Luthor controls the cloning of Superman, the style of video game, and becomes emotional, frankly in the hate that retreated from itself on the Internet. Superman is also an emotional transverse to everything, starting with an interview of Lois Lane, which is affected by the arduous revelation that his biological parents wanted to conquer the earth.

Other heroes are also defective: Gay Gardner is more interested in the brand more than today’s rescue, and they alternate Hawkgirl between being indifferent to fatal. But none of this compares to the serious speech of Superman with Luther about how he constantly feared and installed it, but he realized that this makes him “human like anyone.” Speaking to the audience as much as Superman insists that his humanity is his “greatest strength.”

The fans are completely lovable This moment for a simple reason: Unlike DCEU, we have finally had superheroes who had the same types of defects that we all do. This was not Superman, a foreign god belonging to the sky above us; Instead, he was a strong ally who walked between us. At the end of the day, the human hero and the loving hero will always be more connected than a flawless and inhuman God, and if Zach Snyder knows this lesson, DCEU may not explode under his strong weight and tons.

This ancient cinematic universe is deadly from Krypton, but James Gin has brought DCU to live life by creating the types of heroes in which we can see ourselves. All it takes is to get rid of the tradition of the story of the stories that DC has alive for the best part of part of century. In some way, you learn the same lesson that Superman has learned as a hero: embracing defects is the only way to embrace humanity, and without it, it will be completely impossible to save the cinematic day.

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