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Is there are second example? This is the first thing I thought of ... and then couldn't come up with more.

aglavine 7y ago
Spider Man Multiverse is a 21th century movie, if movies can be labeled that way. The fascination with gadgets; the assembled, diverse family; the revere/mocking of speed (this follows a secret American cinema tradition masterful described by Manny Farber).
TeMPOraL 7y ago
Captain America: The Winter Soldier made a strong point about the issues of surveillance and trading freedom for security, where even the good guys (SHIELD) didn't realize until too late that they were doing the work of literal nazis. There was lots of boom boom in it, but it wasn't a dumb movie. Arguably, Iron Man 1 was quite explicit about the issues of war, terrorism, and sales of weapons; it had a quite dark undertone for a MCU movie.
dx87 7y ago
Black Panther was like the civil rights movement, with one faction advocating for peace, and the other component advocating violence against their oppressors.
- munificent 7y ago
  The hero of the movie wins against both M'Baku and Killmonger by being the most physically powerful and violent. Strip away the civil rights veneer, and the moral lesson of the story is still that the punching-est man is the best man.
  - thomascgalvin 7y ago
    The moral lesson was that the best man had to become the punching-est man, in order to thwart the power of someone who wanted to use his might to conquer. And, moreover, that an incredibly rich nation's resources should be shared with the world at large, in order to make the world as a whole a better place.
thomascgalvin 7y ago
> Is there are second example? Captain Marvel ends with a fight, but the entire point of the movie is that the people we are taught to fear as an insidious infiltration into our society are, in fact, only trying to make a home for themselves, and lash out only when terrorized by an imperial power. The hero of that story is a soldier who realizes she has been used as a weapon against innocents, and who then sets out to make amends. Thor is about someone with the powers of a god and the simplistic morality of a child, and his entire first movie is about learning restraint and the importance of peace. Iron Man is about an arms dealer who realizes, quote, that he has more to offer the world than things that blow up. This isn't the best example, because he's still better known for making things blow up, but he also becomes the world leader in clean energy. Iron Man also creates a rampant AI and learns that even though he's a genius, he can't build a suit of armor around the world, especially without the world's permission. Black Panther has some reasonably complicated things to say about imperialism and the White Man's Burden. And, I guess, the stupidity of placing the world's most advanced technology and weaponry into the hands of a man who can win a fistfight about it.

Spider Man Multiverse is a 21th century movie, if movies can be labeled that way. The fascination with gadgets; the assembled, diverse family; the revere/mocking of speed (this follows a secret American cinema tradition masterful described by Manny Farber).

TeMPOraL 7y ago

Captain America: The Winter Soldier made a strong point about the issues of surveillance and trading freedom for security, where even the good guys (SHIELD) didn't realize until too late that they were doing the work of literal nazis. There was lots of boom boom in it, but it wasn't a dumb movie. Arguably, Iron Man 1 was quite explicit about the issues of war, terrorism, and sales of weapons; it had a quite dark undertone for a MCU movie.

dx87 7y ago

Black Panther was like the civil rights movement, with one faction advocating for peace, and the other component advocating violence against their oppressors.

munificent 7y ago
The hero of the movie wins against both M'Baku and Killmonger by being the most physically powerful and violent. Strip away the civil rights veneer, and the moral lesson of the story is still that the punching-est man is the best man.
- thomascgalvin 7y ago
  The moral lesson was that the best man had to become the punching-est man, in order to thwart the power of someone who wanted to use his might to conquer. And, moreover, that an incredibly rich nation's resources should be shared with the world at large, in order to make the world as a whole a better place.

thomascgalvin 7y ago

> Is there are second example? Captain Marvel ends with a fight, but the entire point of the movie is that the people we are taught to fear as an insidious infiltration into our society are, in fact, only trying to make a home for themselves, and lash out only when terrorized by an imperial power. The hero of that story is a soldier who realizes she has been used as a weapon against innocents, and who then sets out to make amends. Thor is about someone with the powers of a god and the simplistic morality of a child, and his entire first movie is about learning restraint and the importance of peace. Iron Man is about an arms dealer who realizes, quote, that he has more to offer the world than things that blow up. This isn't the best example, because he's still better known for making things blow up, but he also becomes the world leader in clean energy. Iron Man also creates a rampant AI and learns that even though he's a genius, he can't build a suit of armor around the world, especially without the world's permission. Black Panther has some reasonably complicated things to say about imperialism and the White Man's Burden. And, I guess, the stupidity of placing the world's most advanced technology and weaponry into the hands of a man who can win a fistfight about it.