I was wandering for a couple of days that if woman is really important in Super Hero Movies ?
I am not creating a controversy but just talking about the gender role.
Lets suppose we remove “Lois Lane” from Superman, or “Peggy Carter” from Captain America’s movie, does this thing will make any difference in Movie’s story?
Because more than majority of the time their presence in the movie is not so important (except for the one or two scenes). I am not dragging all super hero movies into this, because there are some movies in which Super Hero’s love interest are much important, like “Wasp” from “ant-man”, another example of this is what if we remove “Gamora” from “Guardians of the Galaxy”? Of course people will go nuts and will criticize the franchise. And am talking about these few examples on behalf of my personal fandom behavior. But again these are only a few examples.
There are dozens of superhero movies having no love interest of the Hero. On the other hand, there are few movies which have superhero’s love interest (i.e their girlfriend) in it. But if we remove them from the movie still it makes no difference to the story.
Despite knowing all these things, what makes a WOMAN so important that by having just 5 minutes of screen time they (women) make our hearts so joyful ❤️ ? It feels like we got all the comforts of life at a time.
Although if they have only 10 minutes of screen time (half of that they spent only in kissing) But why does it still look good to us?
To understand this we have to look back. I mean back into our ancestors time. From then for thousands of years, things are so much changed. The meaning of “brutality of power” has been changed. We approach things in a civilized manner now a days...... just like “money” ?
Now don’t think like “money can’t buy happiness”. If it is, then tell me one thing which makes u happy and have no connection to money.
You know the reality as things are little bit different in real life. Although your passion is ‘making an art', but you have to buy a 2 dollars' pencil to draw it. I know we are talking materialistic things here but if we look back to alpha male of our primitive age having native societies, they (men) actually show their dominance to others, just for a female-- like the animals do.
Back in their time they kill each other to have something they like. But now our definition of war has been changed, the way we fight is changed but not the intentions. We still use different ways to show our dominance, success, and power.
We buy gifts for our loved ones, expensive cars to impress the girls, attractive clothing and scents having good fragrance, in short we try hard to make our loved ones happy 😊. And sometimes this love changes to obsession too. But still there comes a question in our minds, “why a man do all these things for his woman?” and not just today but he is doing this since our existence.
Simple and straight answer to all these questions is that
“They (women) makes us better”.
To ladies who reading this blog I want to say that you make us “us”.
You make us feel ‘important' when you ask for help from us. Sometimes You make us feel jealous and by doing so we are afraid of losing you 😥. As you know us better, you can set fire to our hearts so that we can get anything. You are still with us by knowing all our weaknesses. You touch our emotional and inspirational feelings (which man hides from other).
And this is “LOVE” which makes a man artist, singer, poet and even a philosopher. And these all things are because of your (woman’s) love.
All those little or huge arts in the world you can see is made by taking inspiration from women, belongs to women or made for women. From the invention of ‘beer' to the world’s famous painting of da Vinci, from a man living normal life to the superhuman, all needs love. Men needs someone who can stay with them even in emotional times. He never want to feel alone. He wants to feel the roller coaster of expressions. But it can’t be handle alone.
Imagine, wolverine having a wife in “LOGAN”, would he still be in depression? One of the major reason he didn’t want to be alive anymore is that he was living ‘alone’ for a long time. Same thing applies on “John Wick” as well. Does he still be the same if his wife wasn’t dead ? I am not saying men can’t live without their loved ones but..... ‘meaning’ to their lives would be nothing after that.
And that’s the reason why we see their ‘female love interest' in superhero movies. Although their presence wouldn’t change anything to the story but it can definitely change the life of that character. They also would think in loveable way because if they love someone they will definitely teach you to love.
And I think any Superhero without his female love interest will be incomplete because what will be the meaning of life for superhero then ? Saving everyone by jumping from one dome to another ? Saving neighborhood, city , county, world all day an then sleep watching Johnny Sins at night ? Is this a life ? If this is the life of a superhero then I don’t want to be one.
(Accept apologies for all my grammatical or spelling mistakes as my native language is not English)
