Because I'm feeling a little spicy, I wrote about Marvel, the Snyderverse, and America's response to cataclysmic events: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
I don't necessarily think Snyder's superhero movies are better-made than Marvel's, per se: they're more personal and weird and I hate the action style in them. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
(As I discussed in yesterday's #AcrossTheMovieAisle: atma.thebulwark.com/p/the-snyder-c…)
But especially during the pandemic, I've found myself responding with an almost allergic distaste to Marvel's vision of superheroism, which is so wholly inadequate to the moment we live in: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
The Snyder vision of superheroism is closer to the moment for me: we're up against things we don't understand, threats so big they're almost incomprehensible. Even superheroes will fail and falter, but there is no choice except to keep going. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
As @zunguzungu but it in a great essay on #WandaVision, "it’s been a long time since the MCU was about anything but its travails of imperial growth." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-wa…
That's part of what I've been reacting to: the Marvel Cinematic Universe is, to a certain extent, a defense of America's response to 9/11. More bureaucracies, more weapons, more intervention. whttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/24/zack-snyder-superhero-movies-mcu/
We're coming up on the 20-year mark of the event that kicked off that response, and doing so in the moment of a very different cataclysmic event. Maybe it's a good moment to stop and reevaluate. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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