While audiences are still cowed by Disney's all - powerful money - printing Infinity Gauntlet, an understated Hungarian narrative is quietly raising some far more provocative
ideas than any superhero massacre ever could.
Not exact matches
The model for other studios to follow here would seem to be to, first, test your potential audience with more
than just a vague
idea and then deliver a product that is both true to its source material while also offering something beyond what viewers have already come to expect from typical
superheroes (in this case, that would be the comedy, sex, and violence).
Then, as told partly in flashback as Arthur (Harrelson) is being interviewed by a court - appointed psychiatrist (the underrated Sandra Oh), the safe distance that gives the audience derails the pace and the film becomes more serious
than it ought to, no matter the subject matter and this results in it becoming every «realistic» work that looks down on the
idea of either a
superhero or the genre.
In every way, the
idea of a black
superhero satiates the 6 - year - old in me who wanted nothing more
than a hero to identify with.
The
idea of master filmmaker Ang Lee («Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon») doing a Hulk movie was rapturously received, and if we're being honest, his effort, loaded with psychodrama and complexity, turned out to be a lot more interesting
than most
superhero movies.
And director Tim Miller and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick eschew the
idea that there must be anything grander to a
superhero story
than that.
Additionally, the
idea to tell the
superhero origin story from the villain's point of view is pretty ingenious, particularly because his fall from grace is a lot more complex
than the typical hero's tale.