For some reason I’ve just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.
For some reason I’ve just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.
All of them: I want authenticity,
and “superheroes” are fake human-meaning, engineered to push distractine power/ego-fantasy instead of actual-human development.
Read both of John Truby’s books, “The Anatomy of Genres”, & “The Anatomy of Story”, and become much competenter in what story/movie makers should be doing,
and then consider how much is being invested in preventing realism-of-context from being known by mass-media consumers…
…and then understand the long-term consequences of deliberately/systematically diverging mass-awareness from what real meaning, real human context, is, … through decades…
It’s part of a whole-class, or whole-population, suckerpunching, but it seems to be of unconscious, not conspiracy, intent.
Pretence-programmed populations are less realistic & less reality-competent.
Bollywood & Hollywood both produce divorce-from-reality.
That isn’t required, for story, or human-meaning, is it?