If you have checked the cinema schedule lately you might have seen that almost every month there is a Super hero movie playing. Either that’s a DC or a Marvel movie since they have cornered the market.
From younger to older ages, everyone enthusiastically proceeds to watch those kind of films, even though they are all pretty much the same, with the same story, structure and with a little to no change besides the main powers of each basic character. However, we still keep watching them and waiting for the next one to come.
When we were young, reading comics and watching cartoon shows was a part of our daily routine. If you asked a kid what’s your favorite hero, the most common answer would be Superman, Batman or Spiderman.
Now that we are older, we still want to have a super hero ideal model who, even though exists only in a fantasy-based reality we admire him or her at a great extent. This continuous worship we could say, gives us some kind of motivation to reach extraordinary goals.
Most of us though are now looking up to a different super hero. With the film industry, targeting mostly to teenager and adult audience, we are exploring the story of a wide variety of super heroes.
Girls are now looking up to WonderWoman and Supergirl, even though these characters existed in the past as role models for a particular group of girls. Now with the power of the cinema, superheroes are going mainstream worldwide.
People are getting used to perceiving the whole concept of a super hero as a symbol of great and sometimes ascending power in various posters and advertisements.
So why do we use fictional characters as role models?
Personally I think it’s because they represent the potential we have in order to be capable in exceeding ourselves and excelling at a wide variety of domains comparing with what we are doing in our current situation. They represent hope.
Almost all, if not all superheroes, have a tragic background story that we sometimes are able to connect with and find similarities with our own lives and what we have been through. It reminds us that they are not perfect and they can get hurt too from incidents and situation that might bring us in a difficult position as well.
For me that’s the most important thing, the fact that we create fictional characters who despite of their extraordinary power, they still have something humane on them that gives us hope for what we can actually become.
What’s your take on the super heroes? Are they just something that you watch or read for entertainment or they mean something more to you?
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