A contrast I like to make is between Dark City(awesome movie) and Ms Marvel(uh...)
There are two versions of Dark City - one that has a silent intro, and another that has a long monologue by one of the characters that completely spoils the plot to the movie within the first minute. Why? Because producers thought the audience would be too stupid to realize what was going on. (I highly endorse watching Dark City, but the one without the monologue).
And as much as I dislike Ms Marvel(because... yeah), the one thing it actually does right is immediately throw you into the middle of the action, in media res, without explaining anything and expecting the audience to actually keep up with what's being shown without some ham-fisted exposition. Had it been done by normal hollywood, the movie would have opened up with a long monologue by Carol Danvers describing the long, tortured conflict with the skrulls or some such.
That's part of the reason alot of the Marvel movies were so good. No exposition, no flashbacks, no elaboration of what came before - you get tossed into the metaphorical deep end and are expected to actually fucking swim for once, rather than wear your floaties.
I've seen Dark City way back. Not sure which one I saw. It's was a bit stilted. As for Ms. Marvel, she was part of the MCU and was going to be an origin story, a concept familiar to the audience.
I think I once read the Supreme Power series by Marvel on a whim one day. I remember it even had a black supremacist character (and the comic didn't portray that as a good thing at all) - a rarity even in based fiction.
As for the actual topic, I think it's worth my word that yeah, it's possible. Vox Day has written a comic series on Arktoons called Alt-Hero that pretty much fits the bill from what I know about it:
I did have a few odd ideas for a toei-style superhero series, but I don't think I have the exact resources to put them into fruition, at least not right now.
They've done well in the past. Hell the MCU was mostly apolitical until after Endgame and those printed money
It helps that alot of the MCU stuff was fairly smart writing and cinematography for what amounts to pop culture.
Turns out if you do stuff with the assumption that your audience aren't mouth-breathing retards, people actually like that.
Is that what those movies were? I stopped watching after the abomination that was Civil War.
I wouldn't call MCU movies to be particularly smart writing, though.
Compared to most hollywood stuff, they were.
A contrast I like to make is between Dark City(awesome movie) and Ms Marvel(uh...)
There are two versions of Dark City - one that has a silent intro, and another that has a long monologue by one of the characters that completely spoils the plot to the movie within the first minute. Why? Because producers thought the audience would be too stupid to realize what was going on. (I highly endorse watching Dark City, but the one without the monologue).
And as much as I dislike Ms Marvel(because... yeah), the one thing it actually does right is immediately throw you into the middle of the action, in media res, without explaining anything and expecting the audience to actually keep up with what's being shown without some ham-fisted exposition. Had it been done by normal hollywood, the movie would have opened up with a long monologue by Carol Danvers describing the long, tortured conflict with the skrulls or some such.
That's part of the reason alot of the Marvel movies were so good. No exposition, no flashbacks, no elaboration of what came before - you get tossed into the metaphorical deep end and are expected to actually fucking swim for once, rather than wear your floaties.
I've seen Dark City way back. Not sure which one I saw. It's was a bit stilted. As for Ms. Marvel, she was part of the MCU and was going to be an origin story, a concept familiar to the audience.
I think I once read the Supreme Power series by Marvel on a whim one day. I remember it even had a black supremacist character (and the comic didn't portray that as a good thing at all) - a rarity even in based fiction.
As for the actual topic, I think it's worth my word that yeah, it's possible. Vox Day has written a comic series on Arktoons called Alt-Hero that pretty much fits the bill from what I know about it:
https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/superhero/alt-hero
I did have a few odd ideas for a toei-style superhero series, but I don't think I have the exact resources to put them into fruition, at least not right now.
It was apolitical until Disney bought them around 2014.
The MCU was mostly fuckin' great until then, and even then the downswing was very shallow until Brie Larson was cast.