Fredrik Strage: Superheroes in the Marvel films has become complex despots

On my tenth birthday gave dad me the book ”How to draw comics the Marvel way', a textbook for the aspiring cartoonist. I wanted to draw Dazzler as fajtades against Dr. Doom. But the book said that I first had to learn to draw cubes and cylinders. Soon, my patience ended. I started in place my own superhjälteserie about a mysterious avenger who, after an accident in a laboratory could fly and shoot laser beams. I named him Frankenstein.

When I don't read the comics, I longed after serieförlaget Marvel tales would become a movie. But aside from ”the Hulk”, which was shown in Swedish television, there was nothing. I was so svältfödd on the Marvel-filmatiseringar that I played in ”the Hulk” on a cassette (we had no video), so that I could listen to the sections in the post. A little hope was raised in 1986 with the George Lucas-produced ”Howard the duck”, but I could not understand why you chose the fjantigaste figure in the Marvel universe. Three years later came the satisfying bloody ”The punisher” with Dolph Lundgren, but it was, as all of the satisfactory bloody films at the time, other media [edit in Sweden.

of the Marvel movies started in 2008 with ”Iron man”. Since then we have received a total of 20 interconnected feature films. Many are talking about an oversaturation of superheroes, but last year was the ”Avengers: Infinity war” still the fourth highest grossing film ever. However, it is not at the cinema but on tv as Marvel had their most consummate filmatiseringar. Then in 2015, Netflix produced and shown ”Daredevil”, ”Jessica Jones”, ”Luke Cage”, ”The punisher”, ”Iron fist” and ”Defenders”, where the superheroes struggling with addiction, loneliness, catholic guilt and post-traumatic stress disorder on the streets of New York city, far from the biosuccéernas lavish 3D environments. All series (except the slightly wobbly ”Iron fist” and the mediocre ”Defenders”) is kallsvettiga actiondramer.

To the threats that must be stopped are not global, but local makes them feel genuine. Maffiabossarna Kingpin (played by Vincent D'onofrio in ”Daredevil”) and Mariah Dillard (played by Alfre Woodard in ”Luke Cage”) are becoming as complex despots as Tony Soprano. The dialogue is so tight and the violence is so raw that even the more absurd elements of ninjamagi becomes credible. As viewers, there is also acceptance to New York, where crime dropped in decades, is portrayed as a witch's cauldron of violence and corruption.

the season of the "The punisher” premiered. Forward to the summer, the third "Jessica Jones"-round. Then there is the end of the year. Disney, who owns Marvel, will soon start its own strömningskanalen Disney+ which will be a competitor to Netflix. Therefore, added to the six series down.

When as a child I listened to ”the Hulk”-section of a cassette recorder, I had not in my wildest dreams been able to imagine that even a lesser-known hero like Luke Cage would be getting his own tv series in the future. Or that a beautiful day would take about 250 hours to plow all of the Marvel-filmatiseringar. I should in other words be grateful. Yet I grieve to these tv-series goes in the grave.

the Problem is that they have been so good (especially the third ”Daredevil”-season with his Scorsesiska intensity) that most of the other superhjältesagor by comparison feels like Steel-Goofy. The only thing that could save the superhjälteutbudet on Netflix is that they produce the long-awaited film adaptation of Fredrik Strages ”Frankenstein”.

Read more chronicles of Fredrik Strage here . For ex this: ”I have been waiting for 2019 ever since I saw 'Blade runner'” .