When a new movie is released, it has become a regular trend in the queues in cinemas. astonishment anyone DC: the people, mostly, more than 35 years. Adults in comic parlors; adults collecting memories of childhood hobbies (there’s just a market for all of them); Awaiting the premiere of the latest Batman, adults comment and discuss the significance of the film. In many cases, adults looking for a way to escape the hustle and bustle of today. This is not only reflected in the music. average consumer age at the box office (they are no longer the children accompanying them) but also in the content itself superhero movies (scenarios but also remakes, rescuing forgotten characters…), still comforting cellophane from our childhood more carefree, but with constant winks and hints at the “mature” public, the consumer, and the main target audience of comics and the current superhero.
Alan Mooreall these things from jobs (yes these), adult ones, for example guard anyone Vendetta for vaccused the “big boys” fans of superhero comics in terms of how harsh and at the same time how enlightening (to some) too congruent statements. It’s no coincidence for Moore that most major theater premieres coincide with periods of great political populism, and he told The Guardian:
“I said that around 2011, if millions of adults lined up to watch Batman movies, I believed it would have serious and worrying implications for the future. because this kind Infantilization, which yearns for simpler times and simpler truths, can often be a harbinger of fascism.. When Trump was elected in 2016 and we all took a strange political turn, most of the year’s big movies were superheroes.”
Moore believes this phenomenon and the boom in comics is part of an era. created “misunderstanding” 80sWhen works like ‘Watchmen’ open the way and possibilities for a more adult and deeper narrative model:Hundreds of thousands of adults line up to see characters and situations created to entertain children – they were always children – fifty years ago they were 12 years old. I didn’t think superheroes were for adults. I think it’s just a misunderstanding of what happened in the ’80s when things like ‘Watchers’ came along.”
While they may “hurt” those who queue up for each premiere, here are some statements that spark discussion and reflection on the role superheroes represent in popular culture politically and ideologically. “V”, one of his most famous characters, used to say: “Symbols have the value that people place on them, a symbol alone means nothing.”