Superheros

From reading the wonder woman article, it seems to me that people chose not to have woman superheroes because they feel that it’s not a necessity in society. It goes into a little depth about how other productive woman movies that came out did like hunger games but for the most part the question still arises. Why isn’t there a wonder woman movie? In my personal opinion, I think it will attract new audiences especially woman because it is something they can relate too. I like how at the end of this article it states that it all comes down to the kids because it does. They are going to be the people who watch the show the most.

I see that there is racism being brought up in the X-men articles and how people relate professor x to Martin Luther king Jr. Both talking about peace while magneto is his enemy. He relates to Malcolm X both wanting violent destruction. We see that X-men is seen to some people as discriminatory because everyone that plays the roles are wealthy white men. This article also goes into depth about the civil right movement because they relate back to the struggles. In my opinion I feel that there needs to be equality throughout movies especially with superheroes because we see the white male actor more often then the black actor. We see the race and identity brought up too throughout the x-men series because the x-men series is not shy about how they do things. It’s interesting how the writer once said "So what we have here, intended or not, is a book that is about racism, bigotry and prejudice." We see depiction shown throughout and this bring out a lot of racism and confrontation with people.

I like how marvel tries to tries new things and broaden their spectrums because changing the ordinary will attract different audiences. They are changing Spiderman, green lantern, etc. to half black or Muslim characters. Come to find out Alan Scott the creator of green lantern is actually gay. We are seeing an era change and I think this is a bold move for DC comics. We see equality being created throughout the comic world and this is capturing Americas eyes because these are characters we all grew up with and watched.

I am a little confused with the two clips we are supposed to watch. I watched them but I don’t think I actually understand them. I say this because in Monty we see no leader or king in that matter. They all see to have equal rights as a community but a king from a different land does not understand what is going on. In the Camelot trailer we see all the characters are white, at least all the main characters are. So maybe in class we can elaborate more on these videos. I am having trouble relating the videos to the articles, I understand that since these actual movies are probably racist and discriminatory in their own ways we can relate to that but I was wondering if there were other things that came up.

THE FUTURE

Obviously I can see a lot of government authority and control going on in what I read/saw. But what seemed to stand out in my mind when I went through this blog assignment was the podcast “Welcome to Night Vale”. It sounded like the opening to a “Goosebumps” movie because of the way the man talked (now to get back on track). We see especially in Night Vale and “Night of the Living Dead” is the control of government because in the podcast it talks about how we shouldn’t go near the dog park, Why? Now that the question because we (the public) don’t know what’s going on or who those shadowed people are either. You have to report everything you see to higher authority and it makes me hope that our society never really gets to that point where we have to check out our front door to see if we can leave the house.

Something else that drew my eye was the PBS short film and how he talked about zombies relating to technology and how we are scared of it. Luddites that are people afraid of technology went around and destroyed whatever they saw that related to technology, Why? Because they hated it, it gave them the creep I guess. But he had a good point going on in this, which was that zombies take over society, like iPhones spreading across society like a disease like a zombie. I found this very interesting. Also we see the “Hunger Games” brought up in this because rich people are favored in this movie while everyone else is left for dead, this is a controlling government. Higher authority taking care of there own while not caring or the rest, no equality. In the end we see that higher authority is seizing the power from the people to only benefit and take care of themselves. This is so true because it relates to Harrison Bergeron, this was pretty much the story of how one guy might out smart the system so they took him away from society to get rid of him. This makes me think that anything can happen in our society because we have a government that can’t sit with one concept for very long, and also our government loves to enforce rules. This makes me thinking of BIG BROTHER someone is always watching you. Since this world is turning into a heavy technology era, I can see the government using that to their own advantage. Have you ever looked at the new iPhone 5S? Well if you haven’t, you can now unlock your phone with your fingerprint and do other cool things with that. But its like your giving your own identity away to technology consumers because everyone is hacking these days. Just relaying this information back to where we started, government influences us and we seem to just nod it off and I really don’t think we should do that. Overall I think this will be a interesting unit to do in class and hear what everyone is thinking.

Dreamin'

           Throughout this assigned reading, we see that this mostly talks about class division and social status. Starting off with “The House on Mango Street” which talks about a young woman named Esperanza struggling for her dream. Her dream being to live a high-class life rather then a poor life. We see that this mostly talks about rape, abuse, and control of woman because of what is going on throughout the story. We see Esperanza struggles on Mango Street and we see that she wants to better herself and get away rather then worry about her neighbor Sally getting raped and abused. It seems that it’s hard to get away once you’re slapped on with the notion of lower class.

            In “For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall” I felt that I had made a personal connection to the article because I come from a lower-income family and I am a twin. In the article it talks about how triplets strive to get a better education and they do but they seemed to be overwhelmed by all of the school debt by the end of it. It seemed to me that the girls didn’t enjoy much of there college experience and so the ended up not doing to hot when they got out of college. I especially understand that it is hard to enjoy school when your are struggling to find a job after college. I can relate because my parents are divorced and me and my brother and my mom live on one income, while my dad doesn’t help. I definitely do agree that you need to enjoy life a little more especially in college because once you get out your in the real world now and it’s all work.

            In the Chris Rock video it talks about how there are no signs named after black people. I feel that Chris Rock made a informative argument because he is right and it just goes to show that people still aren’t really for it. When Chris Rock was endorsing Tupac we could see white people’s reactions towards the petition and is showed that people from low class don’t get appreciated much. Nor do they like the fact that we were trying to change the sign to “Tupac Way” or something along the lines of that. I feel that this was an interesting experience to see where America is at when it comes to race and social class. I interpreted it as we still have a long way to go.

            In the last piece, which was the green day music video. We see the art of war and how that can be interpreted. I sort of saw that low class being shown, when we don’t have much, so you go to war to make a name for yourself. This music video shows that you got everything but money and maybe that’s all you need to be happy but for some people that is not enough. So we see this image of war while you also see the image of lost love because you went of to war.