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We have been seeing heroes in media, television, comic books, and video games and on many other platforms for quite a while. In comic books we have been seeing Superman, Spiderman, Ironman and hundreds of other heroes. Today we watch movies that consist of multiple superheroes that fight the dangerous villains to save the people. These movies end with the hero defeating the villain, which is what we are used to watching. People usually see heroes as those who save lives and are good. People love…

Steve was contemplating everything he had beheld today, while surreptitiously watching his team. His team? Did he, he wondered, have the right to call these unique group, his team? Scoffing to himself, he pushed his empty basket away and lowered his head in exhaustion. A good leader draws from experience and he had none. With possibly the exception of Thor, none of them had any experience, yet they followed his orders, even Thor and more surprisingly, so did Tony Stark. Thor was/is a Norse…

It's a very busy year for the team of teenage superheroes, Power Rangers. Last week, the first glimpse of the T-Rex Zord from the upcoming Power Rangers movie has been revealed to the public. Today, they taking the Power Rangers hype to the next level, revealing the full Megazord from the upcoming movie. A teaser image was tweeted by the official Power Rangers' Twitter account, hinting an image of an enormous robot that is created when the Rangers' Zords combine into one big super robot. It…

How Star Wars Changed the World The Star Wars sagas has become known worldwide and is still growing strong with more and more movies being made. People have been crazed over the Star Wars films for almost four decades. Companies have used the movies to make big money on Star Wars themed toys and books. Also because it is so popular people are announcing that their religion is Jedi. Star Wars has been one of the most successful, popular, and ,one of the most recent movies in the Star Wars sagas…

JC Washington Cinema Spring 2016 Director Comparative Analysis A notable director, producer, and screenwriter is who John Singleton is. Born in Los Angeles, California, Singleton always had a passion for films. John Singleton was raised by his mother and father in separate households. He was a son of a mortgage broker and a pharmaceutical company sales executive. John Singleton did not have any family influence when it came to wanting to be a director. His interest came about because he…

Without images…how could a graphic novel like “Watchmen” exist? Images allow the reader to be taken on a crazy ride through the lives, and stories of the characters all while using both words and images to create a new type of language for the reader to learn. Images, like stated in McCloud matter. In the novel, images are what make the material being read so appealing. Immediately on Page 1, the reader is exposed to a non-sensory image of a blood stained sidewalk which grasps attention right…

For my three movies that I think should be appreciated even after many of us have left, would have to be Spider-Man, The Hulk (2003), and Selena. Why Spider-Man? You may be asking yourself for the first pick, well since this movie is all time favorite movie because I enjoyed how Tobey Maguire captured the essence of Spider-Man. I enjoy the story plot. The actors for each character couldn't have been any perfect. The fact which everyone can relate to Peter Parker, well maybe not the part that he…

Superhero films are based on adventurism and escapism that pertains to classic storytelling traditions and mythology. Most popular superhero films are built-in mythologies involving quests and special destinies for people who thought they were just ordinary people, and a consistent theme of a need to put faith in something larger than yourself. For this reason, I believe Wonder Woman is a great example of a superhero that is classified as contemporary mythology. Aside from Superman and Batman,…

deciding between two movies, Thor Ragnarok and the Justice League. Would you choose the one where the hero is dark and dresses like a bat or the one where the hero is constantly making jokes and comical things happen regularly. There are many ways Marvel is better than DC, one of these reasons is the fact that Marvel’s characters are more positive than DC’s, I mean would you prefer a superhero who fights with pink swords and guns with flashes of pink sparkles and stars when they make contact? Or…

Superman, Batman, Captain America, Spider-Man, all these have something in common. They're super heroes, but what determines a hero? It it the costumes the wear, or how many people they save? Or maybe even the bad guys they defeat, or they're catch phrases? Truth is, heroes come in all different shapes and sizes, and what some consider to be heroic others may consider to be degenerate. In the story "A+P" Sammy quits his job in order to become a hero, but he didn't quite accomplish this goal.…