Apple pie . Baseball . These are things you cogitate of when you recall of America . Another thing that could be added to the tilt , though , is the superhero . From 1938 , when Supermangraced the cover ofAction Comics # 1 , superheroes have become a major American export . And , because he was the first , Superman will always bea little extra American than the rest .
Of course , Superman is n’t American at all . He ’s an immigrant . An foreign immigrant at that — and these twenty-four hours , those word have a much different connotation than they have in the past . At a recent event attended by io9 , writer - music director James Gunn spoke about how he feelshis version ofSupermanfitsinto the politically charged America of today .
“ When I watch the trailer and the film , we do have a sort of battered vision of Superman at the beginning . I think that is our land , ” Gunn enunciate . “ I believe in the good of human beings . And I trust that most people in this country , despite their ideological beliefs [ or ] their political relation , are doing their best to get by and trying to be good masses , despite what it may seem like to the other side and what that other side might be . I call up this movie is about that . It ’s about the basic forgivingness of human being . And that it can be seen as uncool , and it can be seen as under siege when some of the dismal voices are some of the loud voices . That ’s what happens when you let the internet seem like it ’s the world — when it ’s not the world . The world is us . ”
Superman and a robot in the new film.Image: Warner Bros.
Gunn likened it to his own experiences . “ I live in a very rural part of Georgia , ” he said . “ I see the kindness and the beauty of the people every twenty-four hour period who do n’t share all the same political beliefs as I do . But I think that ’s what the movie is about , the basic fundamental decency of human being . All over the domain , by the way . ”
Meaning , yes , Superman can be seen as a lighthouse of hope and goodness in America , the theatrical role ’s country of descent , but also the entire world that the hero oversees .
Do you opine Gunn is onto something here with his read on man ? WillSupermanbe a film encompass by all people ? We ’ll discover out in a few month whenSupermanopens in theater of operations July 11 .
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