#BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica (with his mid-torso being replaced with #IdentityLGBTQIAPride colours). #MetaphorProtectionShield
Supplementary: https://www.muddycolors.com/2012/11/captain-america-1-cover-variant/ And https://comicvine.gamespot.com/forums/off-topic-5/what-are-good-examples-of-social-justice-1799141/#js-message-16928608
#TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #MetaphorWarfareHeroAction #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverHyper #IRLActorSylvesterStallone #IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger #IRLActorJeanClaudeVanDamme #IRLActorDolphLundgren #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #IRLActorTomHolland #IRLActorBenedictCumberbatch #IRLActorEzraMiller e.g. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ezra-miller-on-the-power-of-makeup #IRLActorRobertPattinson e.g. #2008_Twilight #TheoryDeclinism
Supplementary: #MagazineUKFilmStoriesAJBlack "Perhaps a reason why comic-book heroism took hold across the 2010s was not just about how Marvel married traditional comic-book movie structures with must-see episodic television, but also our own growing awareness that the structures said heroes have long protected are decaying in western society. Captain America learns that HYDRA has corrupted SHIELD, that bastions of American freedom have been infiltrated by fascist extremists. Thanos seeks ultimate population control as a means of balancing resources. So many of these films speak not just to disrupters with arch plans but how they expose the frailty of government or democratic systems in their disruption, sometimes even working within them.
This also could explain the 'lone hero' trope that has taken hold in recent years to a more intense degree. McClane, John Matrix, John Rambo were all lone heroes, but as an audience, you never doubted they would prevail. They existed within a cathartic, controlled and safe geopolitical sandbox either during the end of the Cold War or the unipolar security of the United States. After 9/11, it all started to change. Jason Bourne realised his own government, with its mass surveillance, was an Orwellian nightmare. James Bond returned to a complex world where CIA agents worked with brokers to help dictators as part of a scheme to control the supply of a natural resource (as we saw in Quantum Of Solace as an example). And Ethan Hunt steadily became, even within his own storytelling, 'a living manifestation of destiny' as one character describes him" (28 November 2024). https://filmstories.co.uk/features/what-exactly-is-the-modern-cinematic-hero-fighting-for/ #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #BrandMarvel #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica #BrandMarvelHydra [?] #BrandMarvelSHIELD [?]. #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUThanos #FictionalCharacterJohnMcClane of #1988_DieHard etc. #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #FictionalCharacterJohnMatrix of #1985_Commando #BehaviourCatharsis #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #2001_September11Attacks911 #2016_JasonBourne #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #FictionalCharacter007JamesBond #OrgUSFedCIA #2008_QuantumOfSolace #FictionalCharacterEthanHunt
Addendum: #TheoryHauntology i.e. #IRLAuthorMarkFisher "the sense of yearning for a future that we feel cheated out of" (Fisher, 2012, p.16).
Fisher, Mark. 'What Is Hauntology?' Film Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1, 2012, pp. 16-24. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2012.66.1.16. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
#NMUSBreitbartWarnerToddHuston "As the issue begins, Steve Rogers -- the original Cap -- grouses about how America is built on 'lies.'
'I'm loyal to nothing. Except the dream,' Rogers says early in the issue. 'Here's the thing about a dream, though. A dream isn't real... I'm starting to think America actually has two dreams. And one lie. The first American dream is the one that isn't real. It's one some people expect to just be handed to them. And then they get angry when it disappears. When the truth is, it never really existed in the first place.'
He adds that the dream with the 'white picket fences' is a lie that 'doesn't get along nicely with reality. Other cultures. Immigrants. The poor.'" https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/07/04/marvel-comics-celebrates-independence-day-with-captain-america-saying-american-dream-is-a-lie/
#1776_USDeclarationOfIndependence4thOfJuly
#BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmericaSteveRogers
#NarativeAmericanDream
#PhenomnImmigration
#PhenomnDeprivationPoverty
#OrgSyndicateMusicUSFiveFingerDeathPunch5FDP #2020_LivingTheDream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOkkWIOkWl8 #IRLHistoricalFigureRalphWaldoEmerson #MetaphorZombie #ConspiracyTheoryStolenElectionStopTheSteal #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica #LiteralSubstanceDrugCocaine #PhenomnTrendTidePodChallenge #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #NarrativeAntiMasker #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR #PoliticsCommunism #MetaphorConformitySheep ? #ConspiracyTheoryTheGreatAwakening #2020_CapitolSiege ? #SymbolEmblemFlagUS #CatchcryWeThePeople #1787_SigningOfTheUnitedStatesConstitution
Supplementary: #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesJochenBittner "One hundred years ago, amid the implosions of Imperial Germany, powerful conservatives who led the country into war refused to accept that they had lost. Their denial gave birth to arguably the most potent and disastrous political lie of the 20th century -- the Dolchstosslegende, or stab-in-the-back myth.
Its core claim was that Imperial Germany never lost World War I. Defeat, its proponents said, was declared but not warranted. It was a conspiracy, a con, a capitulation -- a grave betrayal that forever stained the nation. That the claim was palpably false didn't matter. Among a sizable number of Germans, it stirred resentment, humiliation and anger. And the one figure who knew best how to exploit their frustration was Adolf Hitler." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/opinion/trump-conspiracy-germany-1918.html #PleaBetrayalStabbedInTheBackDolchstosslegende #NarrativeWarWWI #ToponymEuropeGermany #BehaviourInjuryFeelingAggrievedResentmentGrudge #PowerControlHumiliation #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler
