Take your opinion “Superman is irrelevant” and push ’em

By Drewsch
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I have already raging around one aspect of the anti-Superman discourse. As the world continues to make me angry and angry, I realized that it would be good to channel that rabies to tear down the opponents of another mentality is just as ridiculous of James Gunn’s film armed: the idea that Superman as a character/concept has become irrelevant.

I tell him, you show your ass again. You don’t know anything about heroes, storytelling, popular culture or human psychology.

The gods of the story

There are an infinite number of stories and kinds of story, but my personal belief in storytelling is that there are two gods of story. These are the primitive narrative needs that have driven human perception and social evolution for all our feeling: the story of the hero and the horror story.

This is the two -story template that needs to be fulfilled as human beings. This is why we still have a religious mythology. The power of these two types of story will always be relevant and necessary to feed the joint awareness.

Just at that elementary level alone, Superman is a relevant permanent idea and is worth using to explore our relationship with the hero’s story. These types of characters and stories have continued throughout history in any number of cultures. As long as people have crafted stories in caves, we have asked for heroic fantasy stories to be told with iconic role models that incorporate our hopes and aspirations.

Honestly, that should be the end of the conversation. But, just as I can say that I have covered a wide amount of land, let’s drill to Superman’s specificity and why it remains relevant almost to a century after its creation.

Superman is American mythology

Although I will not go to the whole memoir of Superman Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, I will highlight that they are the children of Jewish immigrants and their heritage is integral to Kal-El character, a name that draws from the Hebrew language. Listen to Batman Producer Michael Uslan’s legendary tells of linking Moses’ story to Superman’s story.

Kal-El is a foreigner, literally alienthat goes into the country illegally. It is shaded and raised by two Heartland American farmers, the Kents, and grows up believes in the best of people of all cultures and beliefs. It makes its purpose in life to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

This is the story we tell about our own national mythology. While I certainly do not say that it reflects the truth about America, the story we want and it needs to believe in it: America as a good force that came from another place, and realized its incredible power, and used that power to help the world instead of hurt it.

No matter what cynics or fascists are covered in the flag may say, this idea of absolute power should be waved with absolute kindness that the basic narrative we are striving for. It’s the story of our country’s promise. If that does not apply eternally, then we no longer tell the story of a hero about America. We feed the horror story.

And if you are still convinced that Superman is irrelevant after that, let’s spend some time shooting down a few expected, boring, and absolutely brain arguments in that regard.

“Superman is irrelevant!”

“Superman is an old -fashioned look at the superhero. Just because he’s the original superhero, that doesn’t make him special. In fact, that makes him boring. His powers are stupid. They give his powers to characters all the time because they’re so basic. It’s so basic.”

I refer you to the concept of the archetype and why it is as valuable and versatile during the relationship of man’s history to storytelling. Superman’s status as the original superhero does not make him old -fashioned as a character. In fact, it is very interesting to see how many different Superman’s consumptions have existed across types of media that cannot be paid. His status in popular culture has never disappeared, and his influence on the basic aspects of the superhero template only creates more reasons for continually exploring him through his own stories.

“Superman does not work in a tougher world today. People will not believe in a character that comes from a simpler time.”

Superman shelf struck just a year before World War II and found its popularity in the midst of the most devastating conflict in the known history of our planet. If that was the world that Superman was born to and he successfully succeeded as a symbol of hope and goodness, then this is when the world is most strictly the world needs a simple and transferable hero to look up to.

“… A superhero fatigue.”

If you are tired of stories of superheroes, ok! Stop putting the stories of superheroes in front of your eyes. As I spoke about, the hero’s story will always be relevant to the collective awareness. Even if a superhero cinema varies in general popularity, the stories of superheroes are here to stay and have been since the dawn of the stories.

Superman may not continue to operate in a cinema depending on the stories told with his character and world, but there is no way that people will stop wanting Superman stories.

Siegel and Shuster übermensch Nihilistic Friedrich Nietzsche took it and revised it to the ultimate symbol of empathy and justice. Thanks to that, there will be a hero who fights for truth, justice, and what the American way should remain relevant as long as we want to believe.