after the success of “Captain Marvel” and “Black Panther”, Marvel discovered that diversity for sale. And much more than what they could expect. Brie Larson film just exceed 500 million dollars collected worldwide, less than a week after its release, surpassing boycotts of self-proclaimed “freaks” and the own unfounded prejudices of a film industry who still believes that There are no female audience for a superhero movie or that men will cause them rejection of a non-sexualized woman.
Part of the cast of “Black Panther” during its premiere in South Africa “Black Panther”, on the other hand, was a phenomenon that transcended the cinema. In addition to being the third most viewed movie in history in the United States, the greeting “Wakanda forever” with arms crossed on the chest caused a cultural impact that is felt around the world – particularly in Africa, a continent historically ninguneado by the cinema of the rest of the world, which today Marvel film is the most-watched in history. For years the studios rejected the idea of diversity in the film, adding African Americans almost by necessity characters until the international success of Eddie Murphy in the ‘ 80s and in the ‘ 90s Will Smith opened the door to a more inclusive Hollywood. The minority least represented in American cinema is the asiatica-americana community, despite compose 5.6 per cent of the population of the country (more than 17 million inhabitants). In 2018 “Madly in love” (“Crazy Rich Asians”) showed that the mass audience was willing to fall for a cast only consisting of Asians and their descendants, making it the most-watched since “Crazy by Mary” romantic comedy. Marvel, meanwhile, was coming off a pair of controversies tied to their characters related to Asia.
Tilda Swinton tried to keep apart from the criticism in 2016 the actress Tilda Swinton was selected to play the “elder”, a witch who teaches magic to the protagonist of “Doctor Strange”. The original character of the comic was Asian, and therefore sparked outrage in sections of that community – for the worse, Marvel wanted to explain that they changed it to avoid what they believed was a racist stereotype of the Eastern master.
Finn Jones didn’t even know Arts martial when he was hired to play a character that is characterized by that the following year Marvel adapted comic of the ‘ 70s “Iron Fist” to a series. This variant of Batman tells the story of a millionaire who is exiled to a fictitious Asian region and not only learn martial arts but it is be a better fighter than the original inhabitants themselves. Criticisms of the community in this case had to do with the racism of this stereotype. The question was: If Marvel want to do a series of martial arts, why not? with an Asian character at its Center While Marvel distanced himself from the two controversies, the negative impact of these characters must have activated something in the study, which in 2018 confirmed that one of his next films would be dedicated to Shang-Chi: master of Kung Fu, a hero from the same period of Iro n Fist which was a sales success in the era in which Bruce Lee movies and series “Kung Fu” conquered the world public.
In recent years, the aparicionos of Shang-Chi in the comics have been few, and mostly team Shang-Chi is a master of martial arts, trained by the criminal mastermind of his father to become a human weapon. When he meets his mother and discovers the true nature of his family, Shang-Chi swears revenge and begins to live international adventures that mix Lee films with the Bond.El last year ran the rumor that Marvel wanted to film in cinemas as before possible, and the writer David Callaham (“Godzilla”, “Wonder Woman 1984”) has spent months polishing the first screenplay of the Kung Fu Master. Marvel has just confirmed that the director will be Destin Daniel Cretton, coming from the same world of independent cinema that Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, makers of “Captain Marvel” – Indeed, Cretton was the first to give a leading to Brie Larson, in “Short Term 12” now the most complicated part of the process that is to look for the actor who is at the height of this legendary character is. Marvel has not said a Word, but it surely is a high-profile Asian-American.
Then out of “The Walking Dead” Yeun received great reviews around the world for the Korean film “Burning” the names which they theorize are Steven Yeun (Glenn in “The Walking Dead”), Henry Golding (star of “Madly in love”) and Ross Butler (Zack of “13 Reasons Why”), but the strongest candidate might seem Ludi Lin, who already has experience in the cinema of superheroes such as the black ranger’s “Power Rangers” and the Warrior “Aquaman” Murk.
Ludi Lin has worked in the industry of cinema of Hong Kong numbers of “Captain Marvel” and “Black Panther” show that Marvel is not a non-profit foundation, and part of the appeal of “Shang-Chi” has to do with the recent popularity of the universe cinematograf ICO Marvel in China and the rest of big Asia.El problem that has future Marvel is the origin of the hero. Shang-Chi is the son of Fu Manchu, the villain of the ‘ 30’s that long mustache for decades represented the stereotype of the “Asiatic danger”. The logical thing would be to eliminate that source of the character, but you never know with Marvel. Perhaps the study learn the lesson this time and ask the asiatica-americana community, which has its reasons to be particularly sensitive with regard to their representation in the media. In this note:
