Why James Gunn’s Biggest Superman Movie Risk Pays Off

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Director James Gon has a lot of experience thinking outside the box. Before he advanced in the world of the capital with “The Suicide Squad” in 2021, it re -postponed his unique “Guardians of the Galaxy” in the first place a group of Marvel Comics and turned them into a sense overnight. His long and provocative career before entering the world of superheroes is full of societal outlooks, real horror in the borders, and the types of bold fluctuations that are worthy of an artist who cut his teeth for the first time on a low budget fare. By the time he brought his fate face to face with the most famous and traditional character that wears each, well, well, naturally Gunn found a way to take a great risk with “Superman” and move away from it.

Against all expectations, Gunn’s invention of Superman is actually more magnificent than the exact differences in the appearance between the new David CorensWet and former star Henry Cavill. (Seriously, it is Wild How much they resemble each other.) In one of the many ways, the director distinguishes from the hero from the hero of the close and cooperative friend, and his colleague “Rick and Morty” Cameo -r Zack Snyder, and Gunn chooses to avoid a long sequence and a completely drawing depicting the origins of steel and how it ends on the ground. Instead, the movie “2025” begins in 2025 three years after it officially revealed itself to humanity-there are no difficult memories of memories to reformulate what most of us already know, and dramatic scenes were not placed during the inevitable destruction of Captonon, and no time was lost before we were lost directly in the middle of the city’s work.

As it happens, this option to avoid its assets immediately gives “Superman” a shot in the arm and PEP in its step. It was granted, some may end that this approach takes off the most modern and smaller fans of the ability to close this version of Big Blue Boy Scout. But this is the reason why this risk is good, with only with very Spoilers simple plot To follow up.

Among all the reasons that make “Superman” look like a refreshing and magical crowd author, his Cris Evangelista’s position /movie in his review, and perhaps the largest comes from how he dealt with many Superman myths as a certain. Perhaps this is because, well, it’s a kind of He is given. Nowadays, you must search far and wide to find anyone who is not aware of this entire epic: born in Krypton, was launched on the ground in a desperate attempt to save him from destroying his home world, and raised to do good by MA and Pa Kent in Kansas. There are only some things that are baked in the tissue of pop culture without any other explanation.

Film makers who know this reality can find elegant and smart ways to sabotage this, using our knowledge and assumptions against us. Do not look further than the early reflection of Louis Lin from Rachel Brucenan and David Cornsuan Superman, who are currently disguised in Clark Kent in Daily Kawkab. With their cruel and acquired interaction with each other at the nominal value, it led us to believe that we are still at a stage of their relationship, as the talented reporter has no idea about who Clark is. However, the next scene that was appointed in Louis’s apartment quickly fills us with the true depths of its intimate relationship together and realize that they participated romantically (they have not completely marked it yet) for some time now. A lot of “Superman” works exactly in this same logic, Romina In the media accuracy In the world of the capital, it appears to be present a long time before the film began and continues even after the list of credits … and the results are really exciting.

However, on several points along the way, the scenario is also weaved naturally in elements of the Superman background and its origin in the plot when it appears. It turns out that it is the best in the two worlds-the new arrivals (reading: children) is aware of the vast stroke of the entire Kal-Il deal, while angry adults can swallow these short moments such as vitamins and simply with good things. Despite some online grumbling, this was not a world building approach to the story that is being listed here.

For those who have somewhat preserved about the restarting SUPERMAN Restarting in less than 20 years, they were reassured: “Superman” easily distinguishes himself from all repetitions since the original Richard Donner in 1978. This is largely due to the “Just om On it” mentality that James Gan brings to the procedures, as a writer and director. And if that is not enough, he was keen to formally put his ideas on the record in an interview with him recently with the Times, where he dealt with the idea of ​​”super fatigue” and explained his process behind avoiding the story of another origin:

“There are three things that I never need to see again in a super film. I don’t need to see pearls in a back alley when Batman’s parents are killed. I don’t need to see the spider -cursed spider. I don’t need to see the child coming from Krypton in a small missile. Edward’s early life. Moro to explain how he became a journalist.

Of course, even this good note has made a thousand sarcastic responses as soon as social media collides with it, with many major complaints that boil into one thing: not one of them thinking about children!

Despite my mockery, it is true that the vast majority of superhero films should be made for children, first and foremost – this is definitely doubled for Superman. However, this is absent from the goal is to assume that there is only one way to “Full Story”. There is nothing of essential value about watching the other stories narrators going through suggestions and putting a moderately changing spinning on a superman -running child from Crypton, Peter Parker acquires his powers, or Bruce Wayne night is shocked by life. Fortunately, Gunn had the same idea and discovered a way to make the story work and arrest viewers to raise Superman without Re -renovating the old land.

One day, it may be necessary to restart the fifth or sixth Superman to return to that the Craptoni well. Now, though? We have the ideal example that Batman, Spider-Man and other comic films should follow. “Superman” now plays in theaters.