Lately, I was thinking about what would happen if, in my thirties, I started to look again at the series that had so deeply resonated with me in as a young person. Although I wish to return to what I was so familiar to myself, I am afraid that emotional resonance and kick-off programs like Buffy Against the Vampires offered to my teens and early twenties do not stick. I often find myself flipping through my DVD binders, trying to participate in the final of Buffy that resonated so much with me at the time: a resounding sound: "Yay! Girl power!" message that every girl has the strength, power, courage and resilience of a killer – literally. But Captain Marvel m relieved me of this temptation. It turns out that in 2019, the "Yay! Girl Power!" message alone can not wear a movie.
Brie Larson is not the problem here. The Oscar-winning actress embodies the human Air Force pilot become the intergalactic hero Kree Carol Danvers (or Vers, as she is known in her world of adoption, Hala), and she makes the most of from what she told Anna Boden writers, Ryan Fleck. and Geneva Dorwet-Robinson. But in addition to its simplistic overall message, the film suffers from sometimes unfair expectations. The directors Boden and Fleck were responsible for covering a lot of material after Avengers: Infinity War and in the perspective of Avengers: Endgame and that's a lot to put on No matter what movie, let alone the first female superhero of your studio
For the uninitiated, here's a brief overview: Captain Marvel is the 21st movie of the year. Marvel cinematic universe (MCU). At the end of Infinity War an alien named Thanos decimates half of the Earth's population in a snap, supposedly for the good of humanity. Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, also co-starring Captain Marvel in as a younger version of himself, claiming that only is missing at the Uncanny Valley) is One of the missing, but before turning into dust in the last moments of IW he sends a distress signal to Carol by fax. At this point, the hero is unknown to the public. (Basically, it is badumed that she and Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man, played by Paul Rudd, will play a key role in solving the problem of Thanos in the next Endgame .)
The work of Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson in Captain Marvel
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Captain Marvel was twofold: introduce Carol and inform the public of its history and explain the war between the alien races Kree and Skrull that the long-time MCU fans see briefly in Guardians of the galaxy and the only TV show of the Marvel network, Agents of SHIEL
All of this is good if you have seen every film of Marvel – Captain Marvel is an essential way to see you from Infinity War to Endgame ]. And the movie works if you're a girl for whom the simple message of "girls power!" Always works. You'll have plenty of them here, with repeated flashbacks showing Carol as an aggressive girl (played by McKenna Grace and London Fuller) who grew up with the message that she was not strong enough to go karting or playing boys' baseball, and later, that it is not good enough to train with them for the air force. Carol's flashbacks that erase in her various attempts are repeated throughout the film before finally flipping the switch (which even the most casual viewer will see coming) to show us that after each failure she has risen and advanced – and that is which gives her strength. Faced with the betrayal of his male mentor (Yon-Rogg of Jude Law) in the third act, Carol refuses to submit to his demands and confronts him in hand-to-hand combat; instead, it simply causes it to explode in a rock formation (a gesture that reminds many Indiana Jones against the swordsman in The Adventurers of the Lost Ark ) with the words: " I have nothing to prove to you. "19659012] image" title = "image" clbad = "lazyimage lazyload" data-src = "https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws. com / images / hbz-cm-3-1552143212.jpg "crop = 1xw: 1xh; center, top & resize = 480: *" />
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Everything seems very Joss Whedon-lite and perhaps this should not be surprising, as written Whedon The Avengers and The Avengers: Age of Ultron. When DC of Wonder Woman debuted, I noted that Patty Jenkins had made one of the film's views was one of the major weaknesses of the film: he relied on the established tone and aesthetics of the director of the franchise, Zack Snyder (James Wan only and only ). last year Aquaman).
On the other hand, one of the things I liked about the new generation of Marvel films was the creative license that the gigantic studio gave to directors who manage their films in solo. Thor: Ragnarok, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Black Panther have all the features of an MCU movie (including the same problem that each movie MCU has – the mandatory third, very heavy like CGI – third term final act boss battle), but they also have a distinct directional perspective. Take Black Panther for example: From the earliest moments of Oakland, there is no mistake: you observe a Ryan Coogler joint. Captain Marvel does not have the point of view that Marvel's recent films seem to be less of a chore – movies that we all need to see to stay in step with Pop culture Studio has essentially every franchise you like) and more, like a unique cinematic experience. For example, none of these films was Yorgos Lanthimos The Favorite but they had at least one personality.
"Larson's calls for the inclusion of women and people of color during the film's press tour were deeper and more nuanced than the film's message that she promotes on the power of girls "
Boden and Fleck may have simply considered that girls and women are strong. This is a very valid perspective, of course, and with which I totally agree! However, the message is hallmarked, gimmicky and flat. Honestly, Larson's calls for the inclusion of women and people of color during the film's press tour had more depth and nuance than the film's feminine power message. she promotes. Captain Marvel's message gives the impression that the company is making itself heard, as if Marvel finally knew they were catching up. It took only four films in DC in four years to make a superhero movie directed by a woman. Marvel has been doing this since for ten years .
Given all that they had to do in a film, the nuance may have suffered. The narration did to a certain extent. The writers and the filmmakers team tried to tell the story in an interesting way by letting us down in the media in Carol's life on Hala and keeping her in the dark about her old life. And while it will certainly work for some, others may not accept the pace of the first act, as well as the many details revealed that are never returned. I would have loved to learn more about Carol's family, always present in the same flashback, for example; we are told in a disposable line that she did not get along with them. The lack of minor character development in Carol Hala's teammates, played by Gemma Chan and Djimon Hounsou, is frustrating, while characters like Ronan of Lee Pace can feel deus ex machina – unfortunate for spectators who did not see Guardians of the Galaxy . Meanwhile, Constable Coulson (Clark Gregg) is quite liked in the MCU group, and the Captain's script Captain Marvel sells it as a sketch of the character we came to know .
Djimon Hounsou, Gemma Chan and Jude Law in Captain Marvel
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And that's what happens the same way ] Black Panther Captain Marvel will attract new viewers simply because of his "primacy." The plot points must be explained, not Ryan Coogler could make a film without the burden of Infinity War a film that seemed almost detached from the rest of the MCU, that Boden and Fleck could not, and Carol finds herself weighed differently than T & # 39; Challa besides being forced to be the "first" of its kind (we also had the advantage of meeting Challa and comforting him in Captain America: Civil War where Carol simply had an icon on a
It's not that Carol did can not bear this burden. She is a 100% capable character to become that pillar of strength and Larson can both do an online reading and portray the inner demons of a hero, just like Robert Downey Jr. Maria Rambeau, former pilot of the Air Force, plays chemistry and ease. And Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, the head of the Skrulls extraterrestrials looking for a refuge far from home, provides both humor and a superb emotional grounding. Seeing Carol, Talos and Maria playing each other at home in Maria, Louisiana, is one of the film's most captivating moments.
But, despite the high ratings, the film is overwhelmingly relying too much on the power message of girls – so much so that it does not seem organic. Although I am delighted for every little girl who finds a source of strength or courage at Carol Danvers, it must be said that where Captain Marvel could have soared, the image of his main character, it simply fell flat.
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