Stan Lee

In this exercise, I chose my four favorite movies and arranged each movie with six poetic elements. The six poetic elements are plot, character, idea, dialogue, spectacle, and music. As I was rearranging the six categories with my four movies, I realized several similarities to the genres of movies with the poetic elements. To give an example, Spider-Man (2002) is a character-driven movie. The movie expands on the main character’s personal development as a superhero. Throughout the movie Peter…

Phase Three of the highly successful Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is drawing to a close with three films scheduled for this year, three for 2018 (one of which is the highly anticipated Avengers: Infinity War part 1), and two in 2019. At this stage, there is only one movie scheduled after Phase Three, a supposed Spiderman sequel scheduled in 2019. With the end of the arguably largest phase of the MCU near, a lot of the major actors such as Chris Evans (Captain America) have been rumoured to be…

Have you ever thought about what a hero is? You might think a hero is Superman, but in fact, a hero has nothing to do with being Batman or Superman. There are many definitions for what a hero means. Just recently on the news they have explained that a hero has nothing to do with having a cape or a superpower at all. Heroes are everyday people, that go on with their day not realizing or trying to be a hero. Here is the definition of a hero of the internet “a person who is admired or…

Steve Rogers, or Captain America, is a superhero from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He got his powers from a super soldier serum administered to him by Dr. Abraham Erskine in the 1940’s. The serum gave him super strength and other enhanced abilities allowing him to become the optimal soldier during World War II. Steve Rogers is like an epic hero in many ways. He has superhuman abilities, he is on a quest, and he is a strong and responsible leader. The first way Captain Rogers is like an epic…

Who is the hero? Darry Three reasons why Darry is a hero? He keeps everyone safe He knows what everyone is doing He acts like a parent What is a hero to you? A hero is a person who is like a guardian, A hero is a person who protects anyone from potential danger and makes sure nothing like danger can happen. Paragraph 1: He keeps everyone safe Darry was worried where ponyboy went after he slept in the lot with johnny and this sentence shows that Darry is worried about ponyboy and he is probably…

Captain America Civil War is the first summer blockbuster movie of 2016. The third film in the story of Steve Rodgers made $678.4 million worldwide, surpassing Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The film made $200 million overseas before it released in the United States and China, the two largest movie markets in the world. Civil War puts Team Captain America against Team Iron Man with a couple of returning superheroes. We see Black Widow (Scarlett…

When we were kids I remember a lot of Marvel heroes like Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Daredevil, Hulk and Thor just to mention some of the most popular heroes made by Marvel. No to mention some of those that are not too popular like Deadpool, Moondragon and Scarlet Witch they too spice up our adventures for anime excitement and thrills. There is a superhero that ranks up with those most popular whom we call as Doctor Stephen Strange or all we know as Doctor Strange. This hero has…

Where are the Heroes? Hollywood and the media have greatly influenced the way society thinks a true hero is determined in our every day lives. The super hero movies we all know, and love have one thing in common, besides the colored tights, and that is the hero is always up against evil villains. Meaning they are put in the position to save the day or to depend on someone else to fight evil. Despite the super human powers, this is similar to how heroes are determined in the real world. There…

If you were asked to name a few superheroes, you would probably have Superman, Iron Man, Batman, and Captain America on your list first, and what they all have in common? They are all white males. And you would probably have to resort to Google to get yourself to name more than two minority heroes after Storm from X-Men and Green Lantern, not the Ryan Reynolds one. Straying away from the superhero criteria norm, Marvel recently rebranded Spider-Man as Miles Morales, a black hispanic kid and…

DC and Marvel are the biggest names in the comic industry. With multiple comic lines and universes and an abundance of characters. The comics are limitless, however the movie universe is a different story. Whether you are an avid comic reader or not, and with numorous movies under each comic giant, you may have seen at least one or even multiple movies. Like with great empires, one clearly triumphs over the other. With that in mind, this so called 'war ' between the great powers in the comic…