Sometimes one finds in newspapers with news that, frankly, I do wonder whether we have become and all definitely crazy. Because if you do not quite understand how they can become a matter of debate, scandal or even news like this:
Right U.S., "aggrieved" by rejecting their citizenship Superman
I read and the first thing you think is: OK, wonderful, you might have solved all the problems of the world. It must be that the United States, like the rest of the world, are involved in a serious economic crisis, that there are millions of unemployed, hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes not because they can not cope with the mortgage last year , and so we could go the Rosary of misfortune in that country alone. In truth we live in Utopia, if our main concern is the argument of a cartoon superhero. But if we analyze it better, we see that is not as stupid as it seems at first sight, and that basically tells us much about the world and the times in which we live. Let us then that lurks beneath the veneer of this apparently frivolous news.
Let's start. Actually what the article is describing something that had to happen if or if. The character of Superman is too great for the times in which we live. And it was in the 80's and early 90's had to kill him, revive, rewrite, convert it and make thousands of inventions so he could keep it running. Think without going too far in the young Superman series Smallville. Why? Because like it or not, people will grind to a guy on one side has the powers of a god, on the other side is so submissive and lacking critical sense. Never question authority, never raises his place in the world, never has a conflict between law and morality. That, the reader / viewer modern, admittedly, does not suit him. It is a mythical character, an icon, right, and therefore continue to produce comics, series, movies ... but it is obsolete. If a writer entered the day in the office of a publisher with a similar story, I would say that it metiese ass. Heck, since at the time cost to accept him, but then proves a success. In the XXI century, save only his legend.
is why the characters in the early days have not transplanted well known to modern times. Personally, I think the only one who has converted well known and enjoy a second youth has been Batman. And that taking into account only the impact of the 60's in the genre. Then if we and to consider what happens after 80, when people like Alan Moore is dedicated to reinvent the genre, would never end. So the stories have to be adapted and retrofitted for a new reader who is more critical, more demanding, asking for something more than fighting in a story. But Superman is a problem here, again and again collides with his iconic status. When we read a comic book or going to see a Superman movie we all know what we see: the good-natured guy, a little panoli, town newcomer to the big city, timid in dealing with the girls, when no one sees ; you put the red cape and underpants over the tights tight and so low a kitten from the tree who saves the world from apocalypse without breaking a sweat. And if we give it, we protest. But at the same time we know that this kind of story is old fashioned.
And that, not kryptonite is Superman's Achilles heel. Each time a writer tries to bring back the character, make it more realistic, collides with myth. Now we have Superman giving up his citizenship, something that obviously can not do without destroying the iconic image of great American hero. When the viewer of today applaud their ears if the movie is watching the hero to Wall Street was handing out wafers and bread. But that Superman can not. It is up to other heroes (or antihero) darker, which are those that are fashionable today, and the Superman, admittedly, can not play on the same ground without jumping all alarms.
Right U.S., "aggrieved" by rejecting their citizenship Superman
Playing tragic vignette of the moment (source: Daily Public)
I read and the first thing you think is: OK, wonderful, you might have solved all the problems of the world. It must be that the United States, like the rest of the world, are involved in a serious economic crisis, that there are millions of unemployed, hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes not because they can not cope with the mortgage last year , and so we could go the Rosary of misfortune in that country alone. In truth we live in Utopia, if our main concern is the argument of a cartoon superhero. But if we analyze it better, we see that is not as stupid as it seems at first sight, and that basically tells us much about the world and the times in which we live. Let us then that lurks beneath the veneer of this apparently frivolous news.
Let's start. Actually what the article is describing something that had to happen if or if. The character of Superman is too great for the times in which we live. And it was in the 80's and early 90's had to kill him, revive, rewrite, convert it and make thousands of inventions so he could keep it running. Think without going too far in the young Superman series Smallville. Why? Because like it or not, people will grind to a guy on one side has the powers of a god, on the other side is so submissive and lacking critical sense. Never question authority, never raises his place in the world, never has a conflict between law and morality. That, the reader / viewer modern, admittedly, does not suit him. It is a mythical character, an icon, right, and therefore continue to produce comics, series, movies ... but it is obsolete. If a writer entered the day in the office of a publisher with a similar story, I would say that it metiese ass. Heck, since at the time cost to accept him, but then proves a success. In the XXI century, save only his legend.
The mythical home of 1 of Action Comics, the magazine that introduced Superman to the world.
But that initial success has much to do with the time it appeared, and values \u200b\u200bvery different from today. The hero of "New Deal" is not transplantable to today. We can not forget that at 60 there was a great cultural revolution, came the counter-culture, the great figures of protest songs, sacred values \u200b\u200bare questioned, are encouraged to be critical ... things almost unthinkable back in the 40. Notice the difference between the 40 heroes, like Superman, and the characters that appear for 60, namely all those who created Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for Marvel editorial: darker, personally tormented, misunderstood by society, full of existential doubts, persecuted, marginalized, seen as freaks ... if the superhero equivalent of 50 Olympian gods who descend to earth to receive the worship of mortals from the 60 they become monsters, whose actions can the people benefit, but in those who do not trust. And of course that leaves the door open for more interesting stories in which the main character questions his own hero status and what is just or not. That a god can not, as a god after all is a symbolic embodiment of the values \u200b\u200bof their society. You can not question their society without losing his divine, rather than a monster if you can.
is why the characters in the early days have not transplanted well known to modern times. Personally, I think the only one who has converted well known and enjoy a second youth has been Batman. And that taking into account only the impact of the 60's in the genre. Then if we and to consider what happens after 80, when people like Alan Moore is dedicated to reinvent the genre, would never end. So the stories have to be adapted and retrofitted for a new reader who is more critical, more demanding, asking for something more than fighting in a story. But Superman is a problem here, again and again collides with his iconic status. When we read a comic book or going to see a Superman movie we all know what we see: the good-natured guy, a little panoli, town newcomer to the big city, timid in dealing with the girls, when no one sees ; you put the red cape and underpants over the tights tight and so low a kitten from the tree who saves the world from apocalypse without breaking a sweat. And if we give it, we protest. But at the same time we know that this kind of story is old fashioned.
And that, not kryptonite is Superman's Achilles heel. Each time a writer tries to bring back the character, make it more realistic, collides with myth. Now we have Superman giving up his citizenship, something that obviously can not do without destroying the iconic image of great American hero. When the viewer of today applaud their ears if the movie is watching the hero to Wall Street was handing out wafers and bread. But that Superman can not. It is up to other heroes (or antihero) darker, which are those that are fashionable today, and the Superman, admittedly, can not play on the same ground without jumping all alarms.
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