Pop Culture And Film Analysis: Hollywood Superheroes

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Hollywood Superheroes
When we were kids we understood one thing about a superhero that he’s the good guy. He makes the bad guys go away and he’s our saviour. When a child thinks about a superhero, the first picture that comes to his mind is Superman or Batman or maybe Spiderman. His fantasies include him being saved by the superhero or maybe he becoming the superhero himself and saving the world. His faith in the superhero is pure and it is derived from the feeling that whatever bad there is, it’ll go away and the world will be a better place, free from the evil.
The concept of superhero became popular among the audience when they came alive on screen. Earlier, only comics had superheroes and that faded away, for when a child grew up, he wouldn’t read comics anymore because it was too childish. But when the superhero movies made their way into the film industry, it saw a whole new trend. Now, it was cool to revisit your childhood fantasies in superhero movies and this trend made the producers and the directors very happy. In the past few years, we have seen sequels being made of Spiderman, Ironman, Superman, Captain America, Thor, X-Men etc. With the huge response from the audience, Hollywood studios is increasing the number of superhero movies in
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Because they have such great powers, they seem to have gained wisdom as well so they tend to hide their real faces but when the masks come off, complications arise, like when Tony Stark accepts that he’s The Iron Man, the government turns against him and asks him to handover the Iron Man weapon because they don’t believe an individual in control of such immense power. But since its one of the superhero movies, finally piece is restored by Iron Man and all is good back in the

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