7/25/2023 0 Comments Bright burn movie![]() When you’ve been tuned in solely to human misery, to greed, to power that corrupts, how can you believe anyone is capable of selflessness? And if you don’t believe it, why would you ever strive for it yourself? I fear looking up to heroes has become passé and we are so much poorer for it.” We’ve lost respect for politicians, for police, for anyone in authority, because we’re constantly looking for frailty and failings among them. ![]() The argument is that it’s more ‘realistic,’ but it’s done more harm than good. Since then, we’ve been persuaded it’s pointless to try and emulate such heroes, so let’s make them flawed, like we are. They weren’t meant to be imperfect, they were meant to inspire. ![]() Friday, the ideal cop Perry Mason, the ideal lawyer James Kildare, the ideal doctor Superman, the ideal superhero. Hayde, author of Flights of Fantasy: The Unauthorized But True Story of Radio & TV’s Adventures of Superman, observes, “There was a time when nobility was central to heroism. Lots of super abilities, if you turn them just a couple of degrees, become grist for horror.”īe sure to check out and subscribe to our Classic TV & Film Podcast for interviews with your favorite stars! To put superpowers in a horror context seemed really fun to us - it was an opportunity to mix together two different genres that hadn’t really been mixed together before.”Ĭontinues Brian, “We realized that there are many superhero abilities that, if you were on the receiving end of them, would be terrifying. Those figures grow up to be noble and heroic, but we wondered what would happen if it went the other way and this child ends up being something sinister.”īrian’s cousin and the film’s cowriter, Mark Gunn, adds, “ to play up the superhero element even more than we had in our original script. Brightburn takes that to a much darker place.”Īs Brightburn cowriter Brian Gunn (younger brother of producer and Guardians of the Galaxy writer/director James Gunn) explains in official comments (as are all Blackburn-specific quotes from the filmmakers): “There’s a tradition that goes back to Moses up through contemporary superhero stories about childless parents who take in an infant that they find in the wild. This movie is obviously a ‘what if’ Superman story … which is interesting, because many fans felt Man of Steel was too dark. “When I first saw the promo,” notes Steve Younis, webmaster of the Superman Homepage, “it was obvious to me that the director was intentionally mimicking many of the shots that Zack Snyder created for Man of Steel. It’s a true Man of Steel nightmare, and in some ways only a few steps removed from a number of interpretations of the Last Son of Krypton that embraces darker elements than the more noble ones the character has been famous for. Things seem pretty great until puberty, when his extraordinary abilities kick in and he begins a transformation - not into the beacon of hope that Superman does, but, instead, into a predator who uses his various super powers to inflict harm on virtually everyone around him. From it, we quickly gather that a child has landed on Earth from an alien civilization and is found by a pair of Kansas farmers who decide to raise him. ![]() It’s virtually impossible - very much by design - to watch the trailer for the superhero-turned-horror movie Brightburn without thinking of Superman.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |