Day 10- of the 30 Day Film Meme
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shadowkatDay 10 of the 30 Day Film Meme - " Favorite Superhero Film"
This is easy.
When it was first announced and I was invited by an acquaintance to special preview - I was kind of ...ambivalent about it.
But then I saw it - with a mostly black audience, I think myself and one other person was white, and in 3D, and then I went to see it again.
Folks? This film blew me away. It was a game changer. It flipped all the preconceptions of a superhero film on its head. Not only that, it flipped the token racial roles - instead of having a token black sidekick and black minor villain, it had a token white guy sidekick and white villain. And having seen basically every superhero film made, with a few exceptions, I was blown away.
Women who were stronger then men and not superheroes? Black women? Plus a variety of roles for women - in a movie with a male lead? Whoa.
This is easy.
When it was first announced and I was invited by an acquaintance to special preview - I was kind of ...ambivalent about it.
But then I saw it - with a mostly black audience, I think myself and one other person was white, and in 3D, and then I went to see it again.
Folks? This film blew me away. It was a game changer. It flipped all the preconceptions of a superhero film on its head. Not only that, it flipped the token racial roles - instead of having a token black sidekick and black minor villain, it had a token white guy sidekick and white villain. And having seen basically every superhero film made, with a few exceptions, I was blown away.
Women who were stronger then men and not superheroes? Black women? Plus a variety of roles for women - in a movie with a male lead? Whoa.