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More comic book characters coming to a theatre near you

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Just took the family to see the Green Hornet @ our local $3 theatre.

Below is the preview we saw for Hollywood's next Marvel Comics big screen extravaganza. Top talent, state of the art production...hell, it may even be a good story, but have you noticed how we are being systematically infantilized by Hollywood?

 

The following book really touched on this subject.

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

by Benjamin R. Barber

http://www.amazon.com/Consumed-Markets-Children-Infantilize-Citizens/dp/0393330893/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299989205&sr=1-1-spell

 

My quick theory is that the more a population begins to feel disempowered the more they depend on movies to indulge in the fantasy of omnipotence and superpowers.

 

It's also true that screenwriting as a craft has eroded over the last generation, but jeez! (Buy your MovieMagic Screenwriter software Now and get busy!)

 

Edited by Blasto

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Comic book stories have already-established universes, so they are easy to build a quick movie around. Plus some have fan-bases that will see it no matter what. I imagine most are a no-brainer for return profit, in producers' eyes. (Except maybe The Spirit.)

 

You will see a bunch of these Marvel movies because they are building up to an "Avengers" movie, but each characters' own movies have little agendas, like Transhumanism in Iron Man.

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