Marvel’s superheroes today come in all gender, colour, sexual orientation, and age. You would think that the film adaptations would reflect this diversity, but alas.
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Marvel’s superheroes today come in all gender, colour, sexual orientation, and age. You would think that the film adaptations would reflect this diversity, but alas.
While speculation in fiction sometimes turns out to be correct and sometimes not at all, it’s value is not in predicting the future as such. Rather, fiction can help us imagine things differently, to see our world, and our present, in a different light.
You’d be forgiven for having very low expectations for the newest version of Stephen King’s It, but you’d be doing yourself a disservice if you dismiss this film as just a lazy cash-grab capitalizing on a known property.
Nowadays, I find myself awkwardly having to confess to people that “I’m not really a Star Wars fan…” But when a good friend of mine bought 15 tickets for the day of the premiere, I decided to go with him and see whether this new film could rekindle my childhood love for Star Wars.