Joshua Tyler | publishing
After years of declining attendance, something started to happen in theaters this summer. People seem to be back on the movies, and I think we have Mansprit’s thanks.
For many years, the standard formula for modern storytelling has been to establish a situation where the Alpha male character is usually corrected by a woman and placed in her own position. If you’ve seen a movie or a TV show recently, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
If you don’t know, pick up the remote and watch anything with actor Pedro Pascal. He stood out from his entire career. You can count on him in the upcoming Fantastic Four The movie leaked shows that his Reed Richards character fell aside so that his wife could become the leader of the team.
This formula, represented by Pedro Pascal, will now be very tired even if it is executed well. In most cases, not.
Usually, in these stories, the character of Pedro Pascal is right for everything, being told by the person who is wrong about everything, and then everyone dies or fails because Pedro Pascal apologizes and backs off. Then, whatever you are watching it as a victory.
That was once called bad writing. These days, this is called progress. I don’t care about politics at all, but I do care about the development of logical plots and character development. This didn’t happen, but this year, the two biggest movies of the summer without dinosaurs tried something different.
The two biggest movies of the summer feature powerful male characters, and they stand up. They stand up for themselves not because they like Manspur, but because they are right.
Brad Pitt’s Washed Racer F1Sonny Hayes is confident, smart, and absolutely right when it comes to racing. Despite his politeness and dignity, he never backed down.
Because it was right and a man’s result, he almost called the entire movie the asshole. That was expected. This is what always happens in modern movies.
Sonny Hayes doesn’t care except the narrative Pedro Pascals. He smiled and continued to do the right thing, dragging all angry fingers to beat him up. He doesn’t care how often he is insulted.
Sonny doesn’t care about being humiliated. He knew he was right, so he kept doing it. it works. He won.
All the entitled “Knowing of Unknown” around Sonny continues to be known as the asshole, but now they win and start to take a different tone. He is not only a bastard, but now he is their bastard and they love him.
Superman is another kind of asshole. In James Gunn’s film, he saves a lot of lives, and not thanks him, but the whole world starts complaining that he’s not following the proper procedure.
Things escalated when his girlfriend, Lois Lane, started walking towards him. This is where Pedro Pascal would surrender, beg her for forgiveness, and throw herself on the altar of poisonous masculinity.
Superman does nothing. Instead, he became completely masculine. He told Louis that she was wrong. Tell her that it doesn’t matter because he cares about the overall situation. He refuses to stop doing what he is doing because he is saving lives, all life, and that’s important.
Things got worse after that. Lex Luthor puts the whole world against him, and everyone wants Superman to apologize and surrender.
Clark Kent refuses to be Pedro Pascal. In the end, his unwavering determination paid off. Superman saved the lives of innocent people, his girlfriend respected him and insisted on his beliefs, the world admitted that he was right, they were wrong.
Both films are traditionally triumphs of male energy, rather than anti-male power, trying to procrastinate with technology. They are the victory of the traditional Chinese tape festival and fear.
Both movies are about men. This means focusing on the big picture and refusing to let yourself stop because they are right and everyone else is wrong.
These are common, common sense, and rationally constructed stories that people are interested in. They have always been interested in them. It’s just that Hollywood refuses to let us have them for the last few years or so.
That’s why people are now showing up in large numbers, and at the same time, few people look at Pedro Pascal’s latest male apologies Our last one.
Fantastic Four It might be big numbers and it has been baked as marketing drives. It actually looks fresh and unlike every other Marvel product. However, Movie Superman and F1 Probably the biggest lasting impact on the future of film and culture.
