Word: marvell
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...course, it goes beyond mere mutant talent. There is something to be said for translatability, or cheese factor. There are a slew of popular Marvel heroes who will never do well on the big screen because when you dress a live actor in red, white and blue-striped tights, put wings on his headpiece and a star on his forehead, he will look ridiculous. The Incredible Hulk, as incredible as he may be, runs the risk of becoming the angry Green Giant. The heroes who do the best onscreen are the ones who are dark, mysterious, and potentially dangerous...
Until recently, Marvel Comics failed in every attempt to bring its roster of superheroes to the big screen. The Fantastic Four flopped somewhere in the 1980s, as did Captain America and The Punisher. Executives in the world of comics and the world of film scratched their heads. Marvel comics were popular. What had gone wrong...
...smart thing to do, given the solid fan base clamoring for film versions of its favorite comics, as well as a ready-made lineup of characters, story lines and personal histories. I read only one issue of The Amazing Spider-Man but what really sucked me into the Marvel world was my brother’s stack of superhero trading cards, with profiles, stats and full-fledged character bios on the back of every one. Most of the heroes, and even some of the villains, had just that—character. Marvel’s repeated box-office failures became...
Only in 2000 did Marvel and Fox finally hit the right formula with X-Men and get their first whiff of sweet-smelling success. Apparently, X-Men had that little extra something. Scratch, scratch. It is this simple. A comic-based film needs a truly super superhero. He needs to be the kind of guy every girl wants to date, and every guy wants to be. A superheroine needs sex appeal oozing from every inch of her vinyl suit and a superpower image that screams‚ don’t mess with...
...other saving grace is the faint trace of tragedy that lurks beneath Spidey’s happy-go-luckiness. Going through my brother’s Marvel trading cards, the heroes I kept coming back to were the beautiful ones whose stories were laced with some kind of sadness, heroes like Rogue, Phoenix, Wolverine and Cloak and Dagger. The best kind of superhero struggles with a crippling weakness, a desire he/she can never fulfill, or, like Spider-Man, a tragic past that motivates his heroic deeds. Spider-Man fights criminals because they killed his dear Uncle Ben. So swoon, people...