Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker
Tedesche@lemmy.world 6 days agoNo, I just don’t like political messaging in my superhero flicks. You’re misunderstanding my point (possibly intentionally, idk, it’s really not that complicated).
Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker
Tedesche@lemmy.world 6 days agoNo, I just don’t like political messaging in my superhero flicks. You’re misunderstanding my point (possibly intentionally, idk, it’s really not that complicated).
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I understand your point, you just don’t understand how character writing works. Removing the politics of a character is bad writing that panders to bad taste.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 6 days ago
No, you don’t understand my point, because you think I’m talking about Superman’s “politics.” I’m talking about James Gunn’s politics and him using Superman as a mouthpiece for them. Superman doesn’t have politics in the sense I’m talking about. He’s just on the side of freedom, peace, and good. Classic moral tropes that virtually everyone supports, because without context, they’re just ideals. When you contextualize them with modern, real-world events though, they become political messaging, and that’s what I don’t like in a superhero movie.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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Tedesche@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I can see you’re running out of juice, so I won’t press you further. Have a good night.
TheBat@lemmy.world 6 days ago
> Superman doesn’t have politics in the sense I’m talking about.
>He’s just on the side of freedom, peace, and good.
Damn, you a dense one huh
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 days ago
No, they’re saying the specific choices Gunn made with the story is politicizing it. Making it a direct, near 1-1 allegory with two major conflicts in the world right now is a touch on the nose.
… but that said, it’s still a stupid position to hold. There is a lot of bad crap going on in the world. Chances are, most scripts with Superman doing his thing would have some association to current events, since it’s set in a world close to “now” IRL.
Wanting entertainment to be devoid of modern politics yet set in current time is just silly. It takes drastically different settings to make it easy to have both a compelling story with conflict and devoid of modern politics.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 6 days ago
No, actually, I think you just proved you’re the dense one.