Monday 21 June 2010

The EnigmA of a Superhero!

Try remembering the first day you came back from school, what did you do (in my case what I think I did) was possibly sleep a lot and then finished the homework or something. What did your parents whisper in your ear that very day? "You are special, and one day you are going to be a radical person!" Every time you got enrolled into any extra curricular activities what did you think? You thought you are going to be the best of its kind; not cause you worked really hard or that there is a major breakthrough happening in that field but simply cause the media and your parents told you that you are "One of a kind". I don't blame my parents for thinking I am one of a kind, but I blame the media for making me believe it! 
Moving back to original topic, being a superhero just takes alllll that pressure off! You know you don't have to do something extraordinary or work really hard for something, just your mere existence makes allll the difference! Spiderman, had a major early-life crisis even though he was a full-on nerd with top notch A's he wanted more and he turned into Spiderman and it more or less ended there. He was one of a kind and suddenly he discovered this genre of one-of-a-kind enemies and all he does is reduce the scope of uniqueness. 
Gautam Buddha was perhaps the only peson who had it all figured out, he said man's mortal quest is not for happiness but for ultimate power; seeking power is what makes man unhappy. 
True on so many many levels. The ultimate quest for power brings us so much closer to fighting to survive and all this gets so easy when you are a superhero. the only people for who the "I am,...." sentences make sense! 
If Hulk says, "I exist, Therefore I am." It just bears so much more gravity than every other riff raff using the term. 
The comics developers realised this wish of man to be so much more than just a mere mortal resulting their existence,and their scintillating mutli-million dollar majestic success. I almost forgot the movie that whooped Box Office ass, The Matrix Trilogy!
I guess this article bears its roots from Jim Uhls's much appreciated screenplay in Fight Club (1999) where Brad Pitt goes on to say, "We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. We're slowly learning that fact . And we're very, very pissed off!"