This thought came to me recently as I was watching The Green Lantern (2011) movie.
As a person who bought the very first issue of 2000AD when he was a boy and later threw it away, I've never had a complete grasp of comic-books, or their heroes. Thus I was fairly interested in David "Close the Wardrobe Door" Carradine's delivery of the huge "difference between Batman and Superman" discussion in Kill Bill. It was quite novel for latter-day Tarantino, though I still don't think I deserved to sit through about 5 hours of crap before I got to hear it.
Anyway, it is the practice of marketers to maintain a second-tier of goodness to reinforce their main. For example, business-class airtravel isn't quite 1st-class, but it's a darn sight better experience than thrombosis.
So it is for The Green Lantern (T.G.L?)
It's also a little odd that its star - whatever his name is - (he's better looking than I am) has his own cologne endorsement - whatever it is.
Who's your favourite superhero? Why?
2 comments:
Hahaha, you said thrombosis! Love it. To answer your question his name is Ryan Reynolds. Oh, the other questions about who my favorite super hero is? Hmmmn. Don't really give a crap about any of 'em. But if I had to pick, my son has a new Batman video game. The dude is drawn really buff, so I'll go with that.
Always enjoy your posts Charles. Well, that's a bit of a lie. Don't really get your British politics ones, but other than that. You rawk!
I still don't have a favorite superhero, but my appreciation of the Marvel and DC Comic Universe has grown considerably over the years. The finale of a hero unit I used to teach started with Arthurian Lore and ended with students researching a comic book character. They explained archetypes present, the quest, and all other kinds of hero crap, and they loved it!
The characters and plots do offer a lot of commentary on society and people certainly do love to flock to see those men in tights!
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