The team behind “Superman” is responding to the backlash after director James Gunn said the DC tentpole is the story of “an immigrant that came from other places.”
When asked about the reaction to his comments, James Gunn explained that the movie is for “everyone” and that he doesn’t have “anything to say to anybody” spreading negativity around “Superman.”
“I’m not here to judge people,” he told Variety at Monday night’s “Superman” premiere at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre. “I think this is a movie about kindness and I think that’s something everyone can relate to.”
I can’t help but feel like when Hollywood switched to ME villains instead of nazis, it really had a large sociological effect.
Not that it was intentional propaganda, just that 20 years of “anything to stop poor brown people in the desert” had an effect different than “anything to stop the genocidal fascists”.
It’s because the scary Boogeyman has to be relevant. USA needed people to get onboard with current wars, not old wars.
There were also plenty of movies about the scary Russians too in that specific political time.
So you’re saying it’s time for a new war against Nazis.
Also they’re a fairly small market. Which is also why there are few Chinese bad guys.
One of the recent Marvel movies had the ‘Japanese’ government as a minor antagonist that was very obviously a stand-in for the Chinese.
I confess to having given up on marvel a while ago.