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Bad Bunny Will be the First Latino to Lead a Live-Action Marvel Movie
In Marvel's Uneven 'Moon Knight,' Oscar Isaac Waxes and Wanes
In Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi,’ Asian Americans Are Heroes, Not Sidekicks
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The movie doesn’t even withhold his own cosmic connection to Cassie as a reveal — it literally opens with him killing her mother (Kerry Bishé) who is on a spider research trip in the Amazon while very pregnant with her. The venom, and some Amazonian spider-people, save the baby though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13951144","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Johnson’s singular performance style can make almost anything watchable. Her cool-girl deadpan is always interesting and funny and, thankfully, filmmaker S.J. Clarkson has the good sense to keep the camera on her as much as possible. She makes gems out of nothing and finds humor even while the script and story are crumbling around her. It’s too bad because there could have been a more fun movie in here — Clarkson imbues it with a distinctly feminine and teenage energy that makes good use of its soundtrack. But it spins itself into a knot trying to justify a silly story instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The studio, it seems, is playing a very long game with this one. Cassie’s paramedic colleague is Ben Parker (Adam Scott), whose sister-in-law Mary Parker (Emma Roberts) is about to give birth. But one has to imagine after seeing \u003cem>Madame Web\u003c/em>, that, ironically, whatever payoff was planned may be a vision that will not come to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cem>‘Madame Web’ is released nationwide on Feb. 14, 2024.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13952148/madame-web-review-dakota-johnson-sydney-sweeney","authors":["byline_arts_13952148"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_7584","arts_3570","arts_21937"],"featImg":"arts_13952159","label":"arts"},"arts_13928607":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13928607","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13928607","score":null,"sort":[1683140253000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"all-creatures-great-and-small-in-guardians-3","title":"All Creatures Great and Small in ‘Guardians 3’","publishDate":1683140253,"format":"standard","headTitle":"All Creatures Great and Small in ‘Guardians 3’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>When Peter “Star-Lord” Quill, while inspecting a murky extraterrestrial region, pressed play on Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love” in the first \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em>, it would have been hard to imagine that James Gunn’s space opera would ultimately lead to something as sincere, poignant and kinda cornball as the trilogy-ending \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13928312']But as Gunn has showed over over the course of these increasingly soupy sci-fi spectacles, the genetically spliced DNA of his chaotic, cartoonish cosmic vision is a double helix of opposites. Breezy ’70s rock papers over extreme violence. Cynical exteriors cloak sentimental emotions. A ragtag group of outcasts, more so than even the cast of \u003cem>Fast and the Furious\u003c/em>, talk a lot about “family” and “friends.” Against the odds, “Come and get your love” has turned out to be a legit invitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em> is a messy, overstuffed finale. But you rarely question whether Gunn’s heart is in it. Sometimes it spoils some of that effect by trying too hard to juxtapose tonal extremes, and show off its brash juggling act. Yet whatever this sweet, surreal sci-fi shamble is that Gunn has created, everyone here seems to believe ardently in it. And for even a movie that sends a golden-hued Will Poulter shooting through space to the tune of Heart’s “Crazy on You,” that earnest belief goes a long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM-800x547.png\" alt=\"A white man with scruffy short beard and brown hair stands, flames burning behind him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM-800x547.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM-1020x698.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM-768x525.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM.png 1222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Pratt as Peter ‘Star-Lord’ Quill in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.’ \u003ccite>(Marvel Studios-Disney via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The song, though, that kicks off \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3\u003c/em> is not an upbeat one. Radiohead’s “Creep” casts a sour mood over the Guardians, who we find in a lethargic state of disarray in the spaceport Knowhere following their 2017 \u003cem>Empire Strikes Back\u003c/em>-esque second chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em> is best suited to strike these solemn notes, or reach for such last-chapter poignancy in \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em> is debatable. I’ve always liked these films at their most cartoonish. Donning a degree of self-importance is probably the most Marvel thing about this \u003cem>Guardians\u003c/em>. Gunn’s films — which, unlike most of the comic-book studio’s releases, are both written and directed by him — have always stood out for their distinct lack of Marvel house style. \u003cem>Guardians 3\u003c/em>, unfortunately, has contracted a touch of \u003cem>Endgame\u003c/em> grandiosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group — including Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), Nebula (Karen Gillan) and Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel) — is quickly sent into emergency mode. Adam Warlock (Poulter), an artificial being created by the High Priestess Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki), comes careening into their lair, leaving Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper and played in motion capture by Sean Gunn) on his deathbed. To save Rocket, a cybernetically enhanced raccoon, the Guardians must hurriedly resuscitate him with his original programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13927554']This means traveling to the lab he was created in years before by the High Evolutionary (a sensational Chukwudi Iwuji, an all-time Marvel villain), a Doctor Moreau sort who’s been toiling to craft a “perfect” race of hybrid creatures to populate a copy of planet Earth. As the Guardians seek to infiltrate his realm, \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em> repeatedly flashes back to Rocket’s experience with the High Evolutionary: his transformation from raccoon, his joyful experience with other experimental creations and his harrowing escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s telling that in this \u003cem>Guardians\u003c/em> swan song that Gunn centers Rocket and less so Quill, whose father-son drama dominated \u003cem>Vol. 2\u003c/em>. (Here, he’s mostly in save-my-friend mode when not wrestling with the heartbreak of this version of Zoe Saldaña’s Gamora. Thanks to some \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> events, she no longer even knows him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM-800x514.png\" alt=\"A woman with long auburn hair and a green face adopts a fight position close to the ground within a space craft.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM-800x514.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM-1020x655.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM-768x493.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Saldana as Gamora in a scene from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.’ \u003ccite>(Marvel Studios-Disney via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are foremost epics of orphandom about distinctly un-superhuman characters. Mother and father figures float in and out, while the Guardians attract one forlorn figure after another. In \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em>, it’s both comical and even a little stirring just how far empathy reaches for all of God’s — and Marvel’s — creatures. Gunn has taken a woebegone B-team or C-team of comic book oddballs and cast them into a cosmic tapestry of weirdos and misfits, ranging wildly in size, shape, color and dancing ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13927547']In \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em>, Gunn really lets the freak flag fly, putting the Guardians in battle with not just the High Evolutionary but the notion of perfection. It’s not a coincidence that this \u003cem>Guardians\u003c/em> film arrives, finally, in the suburbs — or at least some slightly warped version of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gunn, a B-movie director at heart, fills these films with more sinewy than sleek worlds, full of florid beauty and opulent grotesquerie. (\u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em>, more than the last two films, reminded me of \u003cem>The Fifth Element\u003c/em>, a good thing.) It’s often clear that his ambitions are sometimes just a bit too much; this, like his DC film \u003cem>The Suicide Squad\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em> could have used a firmer editor to corral some of Gunn’s impulse for excess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This installment, of course, nearly didn’t happen after Gunn’s firing years ago. And partially because of that forced hiatus, he’s now ruling an even larger, more mainstream superhero cosmos at DC. That surely has something to do with the sense of parting that permeates the final act of \u003cem>Guardians 3\u003c/em>. After so many speeches about friendship and togetherness, \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em> ends curiously elegiacally, and with one last dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2023 Associated Press. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\" rel=\"noopener\">visit AP\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"‘Vol. 3’ is a messy, overstuffed finale — but you rarely question whether James Gunn’s heart is in it.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005549,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1000},"headData":{"title":"'Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3’ Review: Freaks and Geeks Galore | KQED","description":"‘Vol. 3’ is a messy, overstuffed finale — but you rarely question whether James Gunn’s heart is in it.","ogTitle":"All Creatures Great and Small in ‘Guardians 3’","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"All Creatures Great and Small in ‘Guardians 3’","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"'Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3’ Review: Freaks and Geeks Galore%%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Jake Coyle","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13928607/all-creatures-great-and-small-in-guardians-3","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Peter “Star-Lord” Quill, while inspecting a murky extraterrestrial region, pressed play on Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love” in the first \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em>, it would have been hard to imagine that James Gunn’s space opera would ultimately lead to something as sincere, poignant and kinda cornball as the trilogy-ending \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13928312","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But as Gunn has showed over over the course of these increasingly soupy sci-fi spectacles, the genetically spliced DNA of his chaotic, cartoonish cosmic vision is a double helix of opposites. Breezy ’70s rock papers over extreme violence. Cynical exteriors cloak sentimental emotions. A ragtag group of outcasts, more so than even the cast of \u003cem>Fast and the Furious\u003c/em>, talk a lot about “family” and “friends.” Against the odds, “Come and get your love” has turned out to be a legit invitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em> is a messy, overstuffed finale. But you rarely question whether Gunn’s heart is in it. Sometimes it spoils some of that effect by trying too hard to juxtapose tonal extremes, and show off its brash juggling act. Yet whatever this sweet, surreal sci-fi shamble is that Gunn has created, everyone here seems to believe ardently in it. And for even a movie that sends a golden-hued Will Poulter shooting through space to the tune of Heart’s “Crazy on You,” that earnest belief goes a long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM-800x547.png\" alt=\"A white man with scruffy short beard and brown hair stands, flames burning behind him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM-800x547.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM-1020x698.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM-768x525.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.10.03-AM.png 1222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Pratt as Peter ‘Star-Lord’ Quill in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.’ \u003ccite>(Marvel Studios-Disney via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The song, though, that kicks off \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3\u003c/em> is not an upbeat one. Radiohead’s “Creep” casts a sour mood over the Guardians, who we find in a lethargic state of disarray in the spaceport Knowhere following their 2017 \u003cem>Empire Strikes Back\u003c/em>-esque second chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em> is best suited to strike these solemn notes, or reach for such last-chapter poignancy in \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em> is debatable. I’ve always liked these films at their most cartoonish. Donning a degree of self-importance is probably the most Marvel thing about this \u003cem>Guardians\u003c/em>. Gunn’s films — which, unlike most of the comic-book studio’s releases, are both written and directed by him — have always stood out for their distinct lack of Marvel house style. \u003cem>Guardians 3\u003c/em>, unfortunately, has contracted a touch of \u003cem>Endgame\u003c/em> grandiosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group — including Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), Nebula (Karen Gillan) and Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel) — is quickly sent into emergency mode. Adam Warlock (Poulter), an artificial being created by the High Priestess Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki), comes careening into their lair, leaving Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper and played in motion capture by Sean Gunn) on his deathbed. To save Rocket, a cybernetically enhanced raccoon, the Guardians must hurriedly resuscitate him with his original programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13927554","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This means traveling to the lab he was created in years before by the High Evolutionary (a sensational Chukwudi Iwuji, an all-time Marvel villain), a Doctor Moreau sort who’s been toiling to craft a “perfect” race of hybrid creatures to populate a copy of planet Earth. As the Guardians seek to infiltrate his realm, \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em> repeatedly flashes back to Rocket’s experience with the High Evolutionary: his transformation from raccoon, his joyful experience with other experimental creations and his harrowing escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s telling that in this \u003cem>Guardians\u003c/em> swan song that Gunn centers Rocket and less so Quill, whose father-son drama dominated \u003cem>Vol. 2\u003c/em>. (Here, he’s mostly in save-my-friend mode when not wrestling with the heartbreak of this version of Zoe Saldaña’s Gamora. Thanks to some \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> events, she no longer even knows him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM-800x514.png\" alt=\"A woman with long auburn hair and a green face adopts a fight position close to the ground within a space craft.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM-800x514.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM-1020x655.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM-768x493.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-03-at-11.13.17-AM.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Saldana as Gamora in a scene from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.’ \u003ccite>(Marvel Studios-Disney via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are foremost epics of orphandom about distinctly un-superhuman characters. Mother and father figures float in and out, while the Guardians attract one forlorn figure after another. In \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em>, it’s both comical and even a little stirring just how far empathy reaches for all of God’s — and Marvel’s — creatures. Gunn has taken a woebegone B-team or C-team of comic book oddballs and cast them into a cosmic tapestry of weirdos and misfits, ranging wildly in size, shape, color and dancing ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13927547","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em>, Gunn really lets the freak flag fly, putting the Guardians in battle with not just the High Evolutionary but the notion of perfection. It’s not a coincidence that this \u003cem>Guardians\u003c/em> film arrives, finally, in the suburbs — or at least some slightly warped version of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gunn, a B-movie director at heart, fills these films with more sinewy than sleek worlds, full of florid beauty and opulent grotesquerie. (\u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em>, more than the last two films, reminded me of \u003cem>The Fifth Element\u003c/em>, a good thing.) It’s often clear that his ambitions are sometimes just a bit too much; this, like his DC film \u003cem>The Suicide Squad\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em> could have used a firmer editor to corral some of Gunn’s impulse for excess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This installment, of course, nearly didn’t happen after Gunn’s firing years ago. And partially because of that forced hiatus, he’s now ruling an even larger, more mainstream superhero cosmos at DC. That surely has something to do with the sense of parting that permeates the final act of \u003cem>Guardians 3\u003c/em>. After so many speeches about friendship and togetherness, \u003cem>Vol. 3\u003c/em> ends curiously elegiacally, and with one last dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2023 Associated Press. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\" rel=\"noopener\">visit AP\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13928607/all-creatures-great-and-small-in-guardians-3","authors":["byline_arts_13928607"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_3570","arts_3797"],"featImg":"arts_13928609","label":"arts"},"arts_13915798":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13915798","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13915798","score":null,"sort":[1657049439000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-thor-love-and-thunder-waititis-familiar-strains-feel-familiar-and-strained","title":"In 'Thor: Love and Thunder,' Waititi's Familiar Strains Feel Familiar and Strained","publishDate":1657049439,"format":"standard","headTitle":"In ‘Thor: Love and Thunder,’ Waititi’s Familiar Strains Feel Familiar and Strained | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>In considering \u003cem>Thor: Love and Thunder\u003c/em>, the fourth film in the franchise centered on the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s pompous, pumped-up thunder god, it’s useful to cast your mind back to 2017’s \u003cem>Thor: Ragnarok\u003c/em>, its immediate predecessor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That film broke a mold that ached to be broken—the two previous \u003cem>Thor \u003c/em>movies, namely, both of which came so weighted down with unearned faux-gravitas they had people reconsidering their takes on \u003cem>Iron Man 2\u003c/em>. (To be clear: \u003cem>Thor \u003c/em>was better than \u003cem>Iron Man 2\u003c/em>, but its sequel, \u003cem>Thor: The Dark World\u003c/em>, stalwartly remains the MCU’s lowest point.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_10134531']But with \u003cem>Ragnarok\u003c/em>, the dark (and fusty) world of the \u003cem>Thor \u003c/em>franchise burst with new light and color and humor. Credit director Taika Waititi, who enlivened the proceedings with a looseness that allowed rock-operatic set-pieces in which the banging of heads was accompanied by head-banging anthems to coexist with muttered, underplayed, often improvised comic dialogue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an odd, idiosyncratic fuel mixture—cinema as airbrushed van art—but it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news, in re: \u003cem>Love and Thunder\u003c/em>: Waititi is back, and he’s determined not to reinvent the wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bad news: The wheel’s tire-treads are looking worn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go8nTmfrQd8&t=40s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thor: Love and Thunder\u003c/em> plays like a \u003cem>Ragnarok \u003c/em>remix, for good and ill. For a villain, swap out Cate Blanchett’s goth drag queen Hela for Christian Bale’s creepy Gorr the God Butcher, whose title pretty much lays out his entire schtick: A god ignored Gorr’s pleas to save the life of his daughter, so, armed with a god-smiting sword, Gorr sets out to slay the gods of every pantheon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s evidently going alphabetically, because Asgardians are next on his list. RIP, Abyssinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13872364'](Quick side note: If you find this bit confusing, because all this time you thought that the MCU had established that Asgardians weren’t \u003cem>actual \u003c/em>gods, just an advanced alien race that people of Earth mistook for deities, sit down here by me.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bale is one of the best parts about \u003cem>Love and Thunder\u003c/em>, bringing soulful malice where Blanchette brought sneering camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a muscle-bound pal to bicker and bash heads with, trade Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk for Natalie Portman’s Mighty Thor, who’s taken up O.G. Thor’s hammer Mjolnir … and his arm routine. It’s been a minute since we’ve had a chance to see Portman get to goof around a bit, and “goof around a bit” is this film’s entire mission statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comic relief, swap out Jeff Goldblum’s squirrelly Taskmaster for Russell Crowe’s Zeus, who delivers his (pretty funny) dialogue in a Greek accent thicker than day-old tzatziki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13915800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/tbs-34761_r_custom-ae9db825f772e0bc78880125714560eff08338eb-800x561.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with very long braids sits atop a white horse wearing a 'Phantom of the Opera' sweater. Flames are visible over her shoulder.\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tessa Thompson as King Valkyrie in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder.’ \u003ccite>(Jasin Boland. ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Rights Reserved.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And for a trusty sidekick, trade out Korg, the chill rock-creature voiced by Waititi, for … more Korg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>more Korg. More Korg than seems strictly necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is the whole problem. \u003cem>Thor: Love and Thunder \u003c/em>feels like the product of a \u003cem>Thor: Ragnarok \u003c/em>focus group. We get more of what audiences liked about \u003cem>Ragnarok\u003c/em>—jokes, tunes, the Korg of it all—but what once seemed bracing and revelatory now feels familiar, safe, even rote on occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13914865']The charming breeziness of the previous film is replaced here with a dutiful assiduousness. Boxes to be checked. The jokes land—but, particularly in the early going, they do so in a way that feels effortful, sweaty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But … so what? “This movie is too much like that other movie I liked!” is not an oft-heard complaint among filmgoers, after all. And certainly there is a lulling sense of comfort in having one’s set of expectations so precisely met, and in the times we find ourselves in, comfort is at a premium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and also: For Marvel Comics nerds, a cameo appearance by a certain Marvel Universe fixture who is [writer pauses to consult his copy of \u003cem>The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe\u003c/em>] “an ethereal being, as much abstract concept as actual entity, who exists as the sum total of all living things in the universe” is a pretty neat trick.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3xNgYt9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3ELR3n6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+%27Thor%3A+Love+and+Thunder%2C%27+Waititi%27s+familiar+strains+feel+familiar+and+strained&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Taika Waititi goes back to the 'Thor: Ragnarok' well for another sprawling romp starring Chris Hemsworth's pompous thunder god.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006645,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":780},"headData":{"title":"In 'Thor: Love and Thunder,' Waititi's Familiar Strains Feel Familiar and Strained | KQED","description":"Taika Waititi goes back to the 'Thor: Ragnarok' well for another sprawling romp starring Chris Hemsworth's pompous thunder god.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Glen Weldon","nprImageAgency":"Jasin Boland/Marvel Studios","nprStoryId":"1108949918","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1108949918&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/05/1108949918/thor-love-and-thunder-review?ft=nprml&f=1108949918","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:00:13 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:00:13 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/arts/13915798/in-thor-love-and-thunder-waititis-familiar-strains-feel-familiar-and-strained","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In considering \u003cem>Thor: Love and Thunder\u003c/em>, the fourth film in the franchise centered on the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s pompous, pumped-up thunder god, it’s useful to cast your mind back to 2017’s \u003cem>Thor: Ragnarok\u003c/em>, its immediate predecessor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That film broke a mold that ached to be broken—the two previous \u003cem>Thor \u003c/em>movies, namely, both of which came so weighted down with unearned faux-gravitas they had people reconsidering their takes on \u003cem>Iron Man 2\u003c/em>. (To be clear: \u003cem>Thor \u003c/em>was better than \u003cem>Iron Man 2\u003c/em>, but its sequel, \u003cem>Thor: The Dark World\u003c/em>, stalwartly remains the MCU’s lowest point.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_10134531","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But with \u003cem>Ragnarok\u003c/em>, the dark (and fusty) world of the \u003cem>Thor \u003c/em>franchise burst with new light and color and humor. Credit director Taika Waititi, who enlivened the proceedings with a looseness that allowed rock-operatic set-pieces in which the banging of heads was accompanied by head-banging anthems to coexist with muttered, underplayed, often improvised comic dialogue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an odd, idiosyncratic fuel mixture—cinema as airbrushed van art—but it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news, in re: \u003cem>Love and Thunder\u003c/em>: Waititi is back, and he’s determined not to reinvent the wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bad news: The wheel’s tire-treads are looking worn.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Go8nTmfrQd8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Go8nTmfrQd8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Thor: Love and Thunder\u003c/em> plays like a \u003cem>Ragnarok \u003c/em>remix, for good and ill. For a villain, swap out Cate Blanchett’s goth drag queen Hela for Christian Bale’s creepy Gorr the God Butcher, whose title pretty much lays out his entire schtick: A god ignored Gorr’s pleas to save the life of his daughter, so, armed with a god-smiting sword, Gorr sets out to slay the gods of every pantheon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s evidently going alphabetically, because Asgardians are next on his list. RIP, Abyssinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13872364","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>(Quick side note: If you find this bit confusing, because all this time you thought that the MCU had established that Asgardians weren’t \u003cem>actual \u003c/em>gods, just an advanced alien race that people of Earth mistook for deities, sit down here by me.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bale is one of the best parts about \u003cem>Love and Thunder\u003c/em>, bringing soulful malice where Blanchette brought sneering camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a muscle-bound pal to bicker and bash heads with, trade Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk for Natalie Portman’s Mighty Thor, who’s taken up O.G. Thor’s hammer Mjolnir … and his arm routine. It’s been a minute since we’ve had a chance to see Portman get to goof around a bit, and “goof around a bit” is this film’s entire mission statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comic relief, swap out Jeff Goldblum’s squirrelly Taskmaster for Russell Crowe’s Zeus, who delivers his (pretty funny) dialogue in a Greek accent thicker than day-old tzatziki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13915800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/tbs-34761_r_custom-ae9db825f772e0bc78880125714560eff08338eb-800x561.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with very long braids sits atop a white horse wearing a 'Phantom of the Opera' sweater. Flames are visible over her shoulder.\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tessa Thompson as King Valkyrie in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder.’ \u003ccite>(Jasin Boland. ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Rights Reserved.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And for a trusty sidekick, trade out Korg, the chill rock-creature voiced by Waititi, for … more Korg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>more Korg. More Korg than seems strictly necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is the whole problem. \u003cem>Thor: Love and Thunder \u003c/em>feels like the product of a \u003cem>Thor: Ragnarok \u003c/em>focus group. We get more of what audiences liked about \u003cem>Ragnarok\u003c/em>—jokes, tunes, the Korg of it all—but what once seemed bracing and revelatory now feels familiar, safe, even rote on occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13914865","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The charming breeziness of the previous film is replaced here with a dutiful assiduousness. Boxes to be checked. The jokes land—but, particularly in the early going, they do so in a way that feels effortful, sweaty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But … so what? “This movie is too much like that other movie I liked!” is not an oft-heard complaint among filmgoers, after all. And certainly there is a lulling sense of comfort in having one’s set of expectations so precisely met, and in the times we find ourselves in, comfort is at a premium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and also: For Marvel Comics nerds, a cameo appearance by a certain Marvel Universe fixture who is [writer pauses to consult his copy of \u003cem>The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe\u003c/em>] “an ethereal being, as much abstract concept as actual entity, who exists as the sum total of all living things in the universe” is a pretty neat trick.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3xNgYt9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3ELR3n6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+%27Thor%3A+Love+and+Thunder%2C%27+Waititi%27s+familiar+strains+feel+familiar+and+strained&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13915798/in-thor-love-and-thunder-waititis-familiar-strains-feel-familiar-and-strained","authors":["byline_arts_13915798"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74"],"tags":["arts_977","arts_3570","arts_6186","arts_17688"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13915803","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13914865":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13914865","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13914865","score":null,"sort":[1655337386000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ms-marvel-representation-comic-books","title":"What it Means to Finally Watch ‘Ms. Marvel’","publishDate":1655337386,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What it Means to Finally Watch ‘Ms. Marvel’ | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>I’ve always loved comics and superheroes. But I’ve also struggled to find a version of myself in that world. My brother was obsessed with Superman, and because I wanted to be just like my brother, I too loved Superman, with some reservations. Was I supposed to align myself with Lois Lane—someone who couldn’t even tell that Clark Kent was Superman because of his glasses?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13902724']In the early ’90s, Saturday morning cartoons introduced me to a new world of possibility. I loved \u003ci>X-Men\u003c/i>, the animated series. It resonated with me for so many reasons. Here were these characters, completely flawed, discovering how they fit into the world with genetic mutations that gave them super powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sense of wanting to be “normal,” but also having these incredible gifts became a metaphor for my own immigrant experience growing up in a very white and wealthy community. I wanted to be like everyone else, but I also just wanted to be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200-800x335.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200-1020x428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200-768x322.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan in Marvel Studios’ ‘Ms. Marvel.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Marvel Studios; © Marvel Studios 2022)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing remains true no matter how much time has passed: \u003ci>X-Men\u003c/i> was created for anyone who ever felt like an outsider. The second I saw Storm, this powerful, beautiful superwoman, perfectly voiced by Alison Sealy Smith, I was enamored. Most importantly, she wasn’t white, but Black. She hailed from Wakanda, was the love interest of King T’Challa (a.k.a. the Black Panther) and became the first superhero I saw who looked even a little bit like me. After seeing very little BIPOC representation in live-action films, let alone animated entertainment, I finally had a character I could pretend to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 30 years later, the landscape of comic books and especially who can be a superhero has evolved. I’m still very much into comics. I frequent my local comic store (shout-out to \u003ca href=\"http://www.flyingcolorscomics.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flying Colors\u003c/a> in Concord), but now I take my eight-year-old niece with me. And she has a plethora of female-lead superhero comics to choose from, the most meaningful of which premiered the same year she was born—2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the year \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.disneyplus.com/series/ms-marvel/45BsikoMcOOo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ms. Marvel\u003c/a>\u003c/i> debuted as the first Muslim Pakistani-American superhero. It tells the story of Kamala Khan, a teenage girl who idolizes Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel) only to find herself caught in a terrigen mist (a mutation-causing substance) that gives her polymorphic abilities and a slew of other powers. Reading the first volume, I was so excited to see a Brown girl who looked like me in the pages of a comic book—and even more importantly, who looked like my niece. There are references throughout Kamala Khan’s story to a culture similar to the one my niece and I share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R): Mohan Kapur as Yusuf, Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, Saagar Shaikh as Aamir, and Nimra Bucha as Najma in Marvel Studios’ ‘Ms. Marvel.’ \u003ccite>(Photo by Daniel McFadden; © Marvel Studios 2022)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I have waited eight years to see Kamala Khan on screen, and the experience of witnessing it with my niece was a special moment. Disney+’s newest series, \u003ci>Ms. Marvel\u003c/i>, created by Bisha K. Ali, stars Iman Vellani as the titular heroine. From the opening credits there is no subtlety in acknowledging Kamala’s Pakistani heritage. Nods to Bollywood are riddled throughout the colorful and youthful take on Kamala’s journey to becoming Ms. Marvel. Vellani does an impressive job of highlighting the dichotomy of growing up in a multicultural world and all its complexities. We witness her desire to be her own person and acculturate herself to a more Western lifestyle. We watch her family—especially her mother—resist this push towards independence. It’s a dynamic most immigrant children know all too well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing my niece giggling at references to shopping at a Desi market, hearing a language spoken in her own home on screen, and watching a show about a girl like her (who loves the Avengers, just like her), felt like a full-circle moment from my earliest comic-book reading days. It’s important for me to emphasize how valuable Kamala Khan’s character is, especially in relation to a multibillion-dollar franchise like the Marvel Cinematic Universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Three teenagers hold cafeteria trays in lunchroom\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R): Yasmeen Fletcher as Nakia; Matthew Lintz as Bruno, and Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan in Marvel Studios’ ‘Ms. Marvel.’ \u003ccite>(Photo by Chuck Zlotnick; © Marvel Studios 2022)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://assets.uscannenberg.org/docs/aii-inequality_1300_popular_films_09-08-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the most recent research\u003c/a> from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, only 7.2% of speaking characters in the top 100 movies of 2019 were Asian. Thirty-six of the year’s top 100 films had no Asian speaking characters at all. These statistics by no means represent the landscape of this country and yet, this is what is represented in films.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13914445']The reality is we live in a diverse country, and \u003ci>Ms. Marvel\u003c/i> is taking thrilling steps to reflect that. Diversity matters, representation matters and the ripple effects of these stories allow girls to believe they can be—and are—superheroes. A show like \u003ci>Ms. Marvel\u003c/i> offers an immeasurable amount of reassurance that there is a place for women and girls of color in this world. It reiterates that diversity isn’t a “woke” movement. Diversity is simply reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Ms. Marvel’ airs Wednesdays on Disney+. \u003ca href=\"https://www.disneyplus.com/series/ms-marvel/45BsikoMcOOo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The comic I shared with my niece is finally a television show, and watching it together proves just how important representation is.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006721,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":946},"headData":{"title":"Watching ‘Ms. Marvel’: Diversity Isn’t ‘Woke,’ it's Simply Reality | KQED","description":"The comic I shared with my niece is finally a television show, and watching it together proves just how important representation is.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Watching ‘Ms. Marvel’: Diversity Isn’t ‘Woke,’ it's Simply Reality %%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"source":"Commentary","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/artscommentary","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/arts/13914865/ms-marvel-representation-comic-books","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I’ve always loved comics and superheroes. But I’ve also struggled to find a version of myself in that world. My brother was obsessed with Superman, and because I wanted to be just like my brother, I too loved Superman, with some reservations. Was I supposed to align myself with Lois Lane—someone who couldn’t even tell that Clark Kent was Superman because of his glasses?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13902724","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the early ’90s, Saturday morning cartoons introduced me to a new world of possibility. I loved \u003ci>X-Men\u003c/i>, the animated series. It resonated with me for so many reasons. Here were these characters, completely flawed, discovering how they fit into the world with genetic mutations that gave them super powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sense of wanting to be “normal,” but also having these incredible gifts became a metaphor for my own immigrant experience growing up in a very white and wealthy community. I wanted to be like everyone else, but I also just wanted to be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200-800x335.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200-1020x428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvellight_1200-768x322.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan in Marvel Studios’ ‘Ms. Marvel.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Marvel Studios; © Marvel Studios 2022)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing remains true no matter how much time has passed: \u003ci>X-Men\u003c/i> was created for anyone who ever felt like an outsider. The second I saw Storm, this powerful, beautiful superwoman, perfectly voiced by Alison Sealy Smith, I was enamored. Most importantly, she wasn’t white, but Black. She hailed from Wakanda, was the love interest of King T’Challa (a.k.a. the Black Panther) and became the first superhero I saw who looked even a little bit like me. After seeing very little BIPOC representation in live-action films, let alone animated entertainment, I finally had a character I could pretend to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 30 years later, the landscape of comic books and especially who can be a superhero has evolved. I’m still very much into comics. I frequent my local comic store (shout-out to \u003ca href=\"http://www.flyingcolorscomics.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flying Colors\u003c/a> in Concord), but now I take my eight-year-old niece with me. And she has a plethora of female-lead superhero comics to choose from, the most meaningful of which premiered the same year she was born—2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the year \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.disneyplus.com/series/ms-marvel/45BsikoMcOOo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ms. Marvel\u003c/a>\u003c/i> debuted as the first Muslim Pakistani-American superhero. It tells the story of Kamala Khan, a teenage girl who idolizes Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel) only to find herself caught in a terrigen mist (a mutation-causing substance) that gives her polymorphic abilities and a slew of other powers. Reading the first volume, I was so excited to see a Brown girl who looked like me in the pages of a comic book—and even more importantly, who looked like my niece. There are references throughout Kamala Khan’s story to a culture similar to the one my niece and I share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelhome_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R): Mohan Kapur as Yusuf, Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, Saagar Shaikh as Aamir, and Nimra Bucha as Najma in Marvel Studios’ ‘Ms. Marvel.’ \u003ccite>(Photo by Daniel McFadden; © Marvel Studios 2022)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I have waited eight years to see Kamala Khan on screen, and the experience of witnessing it with my niece was a special moment. Disney+’s newest series, \u003ci>Ms. Marvel\u003c/i>, created by Bisha K. Ali, stars Iman Vellani as the titular heroine. From the opening credits there is no subtlety in acknowledging Kamala’s Pakistani heritage. Nods to Bollywood are riddled throughout the colorful and youthful take on Kamala’s journey to becoming Ms. Marvel. Vellani does an impressive job of highlighting the dichotomy of growing up in a multicultural world and all its complexities. We witness her desire to be her own person and acculturate herself to a more Western lifestyle. We watch her family—especially her mother—resist this push towards independence. It’s a dynamic most immigrant children know all too well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing my niece giggling at references to shopping at a Desi market, hearing a language spoken in her own home on screen, and watching a show about a girl like her (who loves the Avengers, just like her), felt like a full-circle moment from my earliest comic-book reading days. It’s important for me to emphasize how valuable Kamala Khan’s character is, especially in relation to a multibillion-dollar franchise like the Marvel Cinematic Universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Three teenagers hold cafeteria trays in lunchroom\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/MsMarvelcaf_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R): Yasmeen Fletcher as Nakia; Matthew Lintz as Bruno, and Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan in Marvel Studios’ ‘Ms. Marvel.’ \u003ccite>(Photo by Chuck Zlotnick; © Marvel Studios 2022)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://assets.uscannenberg.org/docs/aii-inequality_1300_popular_films_09-08-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the most recent research\u003c/a> from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, only 7.2% of speaking characters in the top 100 movies of 2019 were Asian. Thirty-six of the year’s top 100 films had no Asian speaking characters at all. These statistics by no means represent the landscape of this country and yet, this is what is represented in films.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13914445","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The reality is we live in a diverse country, and \u003ci>Ms. Marvel\u003c/i> is taking thrilling steps to reflect that. Diversity matters, representation matters and the ripple effects of these stories allow girls to believe they can be—and are—superheroes. A show like \u003ci>Ms. Marvel\u003c/i> offers an immeasurable amount of reassurance that there is a place for women and girls of color in this world. It reiterates that diversity isn’t a “woke” movement. Diversity is simply reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Ms. Marvel’ airs Wednesdays on Disney+. \u003ca href=\"https://www.disneyplus.com/series/ms-marvel/45BsikoMcOOo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13914865/ms-marvel-representation-comic-books","authors":["11789"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_1942","arts_3570","arts_769","arts_585","arts_2792"],"featImg":"arts_13914869","label":"source_arts_13914865"},"arts_13914736":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13914736","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13914736","score":null,"sort":[1655147611000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"yes-im-a-disney-adult-let-me-explain","title":"Yes, I'm a Disney Adult. Let Me Explain","publishDate":1655147611,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Yes, I’m a Disney Adult. Let Me Explain | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Hi. My name is Aisha, and I’m a Disney Adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I’m not like those other Disney Adults out there—I’m a \u003cem>cool \u003c/em>Disney Adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve certainly never\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theashrb/status/1533466143389892609/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> thrown a wedding\u003c/a> where I made my guests figure out their own way of getting fed during the reception, because my partner and I chose to spend the thousands of dollars our parents budgeted for catering on guest appearances by Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Could never be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(My partner \u003cem>did \u003c/em>propose to me while we were in Disney World celebrating my 30th birthday. That’s cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have absolutely zero interest in living in a residential community\u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/real-estate/disney-residential-storyliving-community-cotino-coachella-valley-1235095311/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> owned by Disney\u003c/a> and staffed with Disney cast members—what fresh \u003cem>Twilight Zone\u003c/em> hell might that turn out to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Still, I \u003cem>do \u003c/em>have Disney playlists in my regular rotation for working background music, and yes, I know every lyric to “Thomas O’Malley Cat” from \u003cem>The Aristocats\u003c/em>. I’m still cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would never refer to my partner as my “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CelyiLZLHa2/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disney prince\u003c/a>“—yech!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(But we \u003cem>do\u003c/em> watch Disney movies old and new together, and have seen \u003cem>Aladdin\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Frozen\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>The Lion King \u003c/em>on Broadway. In case you’re wondering, we have no children, and emphatically don’t want them. We’re still cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_112074']Fandom is a weird thing. It’s a state of being where at least a bit of fantasy inherently comes into play regardless of the medium, and the internet, with its memes and Tumblr pages and interest groups, has only made this more obvious while giving us myriad new ways to demonstrate being a fan. It’s also interesting to witness the ever-morphing hierarchies of fandom within the cultural zeitgeist, and what’s considered cool to obsess over and what’s not. Comic book nerds, for example, once a niche population and the butt of jokes, have more or less swallowed mainstream popular culture as a whole, thanks to the Marvelization of … well, everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past week emphasized how not all fandoms are treated equally, thanks to a viral “Am I the Asshole” Reddit post that may or may not be a true story. In case you’re unfamiliar with “AITA,” as it’s called, it’s the judgy gift that keeps on giving, a popular Reddit subhead where users post their personal conundrums and then ask the rest of the world to decide whether they were in the wrong or right. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theashrb/status/1533466143389892609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This particularly chaotic post\u003c/a> about the couple who chose Mickey and Minnie over feeding their guests sparked the snarkiest wave of derision on the fandom known as “Disney Adults,” understandably. Tweets like “We need to study the\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EJpineapplSLICE/status/1533910536403959809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> minds of Disney adults\u003c/a> like we do serial killers” and “I’ve said it once, I’ll say it now, and I’ll say it 100 more times.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BaileyCarlin/status/1533809376489881600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Disney adults are the absolute worst people\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Way harsh, Tai.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse was the well-intentioned religious studies professor who swooped in to defend my ilk with\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jeichlerlevine/status/1533909820453142530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a thread\u003c/a> that basically boiled down to “Don’t pathologize these people; to them this is like religion, except instead of worshipping hypothetical gods, they worship a corporate entity!” Twitter went into overdrive, swarming upon and devouring this professor’s infantilizing thread as if they were the hyenas descending upon Scar. The responses were golden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t actually care if people make fun of Disney Adults. A lot of the jokes are actually pretty funny. It’s a weird, quirky thing to re-watch \u003cem>Lady and the Tramp \u003c/em>every so often once you surpass the age of, say, 12! I own that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883519']On the other hand, I find the\u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/woman-who-cried-while-meeting-goofy-interview-2022-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> intense vitriol\u003c/a>—not the jokes, but the suggestions this is on par with religion or a cult—to be more than a bit confounding. From where I stand, Disney Adults don’t appear to be the kind of fandom that cares much about what others think about us, or the things we like. I don’t see them enacting massive doxing campaigns against anyone who dares say a bad word about \u003cem>Encanto\u003c/em>, like fans of certain pop stars or superhero movies. Maybe it’s because I’m a cool Disney Adult and don’t run in those circles? I don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of it seems to stem from an understandable disdain for Disney as a corporate monopoly, and all the negatives that have come from that. (For one: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085130633/disney-response-florida-bill-dont-say-gay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The company’s position as financially beholden to political groups that are actively trying to strip basic human rights\u003c/a>.) I agree with those critics; no one brand should have all this power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bigger component, though, is probably Disney’s “wholesome” and child-friendly image, which has been meticulously ingrained in the public imagination since the brand’s inception. Despite owning everything under the sun, from \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>to Marvel to the Muppets to Pixar, the Disney brand remains lodged in people’s minds as nothing more than that iconographic image of Tinker Bell tapping Cinderella’s castle with her wand. To say something has been “Disneyfied” is dismissive shorthand for watered-down, chaste, safe, conservative. The company does plenty of things to project this fluffy image (ahem, that very hyped “exclusively gay” moment that turned out to just be\u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/heres-the-exclusively-gay-moment-in-beauty-and-the-beast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a couple seconds\u003c/a> of two guys dancing together), so I get it. I can see how it seems like the equivalent of continuing to enjoy \u003cem>Blue’s Clues \u003c/em>even after you’ve reached 5th grade—to like a product ostensibly targeted at kids is to somehow exist in a state of arrested development and be disconnected from reality, so the thinking goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To which I say: All fiction requires the audience to disconnect from reality! That’s the point! Also, have you seen \u003cem>Pinocchio \u003c/em>recently? That entire Pleasure Island sequence is like a PG-rated precursor to \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Fritz the Cat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the term “Disney Adult” suggests it’s something of an oxymoron, an incongruous identity—we don’t go around calling people Muppet Grown-Ups or Mature \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>fans, even as these fantastical franchises also appeal to people of all ages. \u003cem>Sigh.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_97638']What it all boils down to is this: The Disney products we associate with princesses and talking animal sidekicks and musicals will never be “cool,” even as they’ve become the blueprint for cultural commodification in nearly every corner of western culture for nearly a century. And that’s fine! On the social ladder of pop culture fandom, Disney Adults are the theater kids. (Yes, in case you were wondering, I was a theater kid, too. A cool one, though.) We’re passionate—some a little too much so—and have a tendency to burst out into song at unexpected moments. We like to rank villains and princes, and drop way too much money for the chance to ride Space Mountain. We are an acquired taste. Just like every other cult–er, fandom.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This essay first appeared in NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sign up for the newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get weekly recommendations on what’s making us happy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Yes%2C+I%27m+a+Disney+Adult.+Let+me+explain&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Backlash against Disney Adults reveals a lot about the ever-morphing hierarchies of fandom within the cultural zeitgeist.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006738,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1297},"headData":{"title":"Yes, I'm a Disney Adult. Let Me Explain | KQED","description":"Backlash against Disney Adults reveals a lot about the ever-morphing hierarchies of fandom within the cultural zeitgeist.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Ye Aung Thu","nprByline":"Aisha Harris","nprImageAgency":"AFP via Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1104213916","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1104213916&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/12/1104213916/yes-im-a-disney-adult-let-me-explain?ft=nprml&f=1104213916","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sun, 12 Jun 2022 07:00:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sun, 12 Jun 2022 07:00:19 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sun, 12 Jun 2022 07:00:19 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/arts/13914736/yes-im-a-disney-adult-let-me-explain","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hi. My name is Aisha, and I’m a Disney Adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I’m not like those other Disney Adults out there—I’m a \u003cem>cool \u003c/em>Disney Adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve certainly never\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theashrb/status/1533466143389892609/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> thrown a wedding\u003c/a> where I made my guests figure out their own way of getting fed during the reception, because my partner and I chose to spend the thousands of dollars our parents budgeted for catering on guest appearances by Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Could never be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(My partner \u003cem>did \u003c/em>propose to me while we were in Disney World celebrating my 30th birthday. That’s cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have absolutely zero interest in living in a residential community\u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/real-estate/disney-residential-storyliving-community-cotino-coachella-valley-1235095311/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> owned by Disney\u003c/a> and staffed with Disney cast members—what fresh \u003cem>Twilight Zone\u003c/em> hell might that turn out to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Still, I \u003cem>do \u003c/em>have Disney playlists in my regular rotation for working background music, and yes, I know every lyric to “Thomas O’Malley Cat” from \u003cem>The Aristocats\u003c/em>. I’m still cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would never refer to my partner as my “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CelyiLZLHa2/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disney prince\u003c/a>“—yech!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(But we \u003cem>do\u003c/em> watch Disney movies old and new together, and have seen \u003cem>Aladdin\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Frozen\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>The Lion King \u003c/em>on Broadway. In case you’re wondering, we have no children, and emphatically don’t want them. We’re still cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_112074","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fandom is a weird thing. It’s a state of being where at least a bit of fantasy inherently comes into play regardless of the medium, and the internet, with its memes and Tumblr pages and interest groups, has only made this more obvious while giving us myriad new ways to demonstrate being a fan. It’s also interesting to witness the ever-morphing hierarchies of fandom within the cultural zeitgeist, and what’s considered cool to obsess over and what’s not. Comic book nerds, for example, once a niche population and the butt of jokes, have more or less swallowed mainstream popular culture as a whole, thanks to the Marvelization of … well, everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past week emphasized how not all fandoms are treated equally, thanks to a viral “Am I the Asshole” Reddit post that may or may not be a true story. In case you’re unfamiliar with “AITA,” as it’s called, it’s the judgy gift that keeps on giving, a popular Reddit subhead where users post their personal conundrums and then ask the rest of the world to decide whether they were in the wrong or right. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theashrb/status/1533466143389892609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This particularly chaotic post\u003c/a> about the couple who chose Mickey and Minnie over feeding their guests sparked the snarkiest wave of derision on the fandom known as “Disney Adults,” understandably. Tweets like “We need to study the\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EJpineapplSLICE/status/1533910536403959809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> minds of Disney adults\u003c/a> like we do serial killers” and “I’ve said it once, I’ll say it now, and I’ll say it 100 more times.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BaileyCarlin/status/1533809376489881600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Disney adults are the absolute worst people\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Way harsh, Tai.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse was the well-intentioned religious studies professor who swooped in to defend my ilk with\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jeichlerlevine/status/1533909820453142530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a thread\u003c/a> that basically boiled down to “Don’t pathologize these people; to them this is like religion, except instead of worshipping hypothetical gods, they worship a corporate entity!” Twitter went into overdrive, swarming upon and devouring this professor’s infantilizing thread as if they were the hyenas descending upon Scar. The responses were golden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t actually care if people make fun of Disney Adults. A lot of the jokes are actually pretty funny. It’s a weird, quirky thing to re-watch \u003cem>Lady and the Tramp \u003c/em>every so often once you surpass the age of, say, 12! I own that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13883519","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On the other hand, I find the\u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/woman-who-cried-while-meeting-goofy-interview-2022-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> intense vitriol\u003c/a>—not the jokes, but the suggestions this is on par with religion or a cult—to be more than a bit confounding. From where I stand, Disney Adults don’t appear to be the kind of fandom that cares much about what others think about us, or the things we like. I don’t see them enacting massive doxing campaigns against anyone who dares say a bad word about \u003cem>Encanto\u003c/em>, like fans of certain pop stars or superhero movies. Maybe it’s because I’m a cool Disney Adult and don’t run in those circles? I don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of it seems to stem from an understandable disdain for Disney as a corporate monopoly, and all the negatives that have come from that. (For one: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085130633/disney-response-florida-bill-dont-say-gay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The company’s position as financially beholden to political groups that are actively trying to strip basic human rights\u003c/a>.) I agree with those critics; no one brand should have all this power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bigger component, though, is probably Disney’s “wholesome” and child-friendly image, which has been meticulously ingrained in the public imagination since the brand’s inception. Despite owning everything under the sun, from \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>to Marvel to the Muppets to Pixar, the Disney brand remains lodged in people’s minds as nothing more than that iconographic image of Tinker Bell tapping Cinderella’s castle with her wand. To say something has been “Disneyfied” is dismissive shorthand for watered-down, chaste, safe, conservative. The company does plenty of things to project this fluffy image (ahem, that very hyped “exclusively gay” moment that turned out to just be\u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/heres-the-exclusively-gay-moment-in-beauty-and-the-beast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a couple seconds\u003c/a> of two guys dancing together), so I get it. I can see how it seems like the equivalent of continuing to enjoy \u003cem>Blue’s Clues \u003c/em>even after you’ve reached 5th grade—to like a product ostensibly targeted at kids is to somehow exist in a state of arrested development and be disconnected from reality, so the thinking goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To which I say: All fiction requires the audience to disconnect from reality! That’s the point! Also, have you seen \u003cem>Pinocchio \u003c/em>recently? That entire Pleasure Island sequence is like a PG-rated precursor to \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Fritz the Cat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the term “Disney Adult” suggests it’s something of an oxymoron, an incongruous identity—we don’t go around calling people Muppet Grown-Ups or Mature \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>fans, even as these fantastical franchises also appeal to people of all ages. \u003cem>Sigh.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_97638","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>What it all boils down to is this: The Disney products we associate with princesses and talking animal sidekicks and musicals will never be “cool,” even as they’ve become the blueprint for cultural commodification in nearly every corner of western culture for nearly a century. And that’s fine! On the social ladder of pop culture fandom, Disney Adults are the theater kids. (Yes, in case you were wondering, I was a theater kid, too. A cool one, though.) We’re passionate—some a little too much so—and have a tendency to burst out into song at unexpected moments. We like to rank villains and princes, and drop way too much money for the chance to ride Space Mountain. We are an acquired taste. Just like every other cult–er, fandom.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This essay first appeared in NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sign up for the newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get weekly recommendations on what’s making us happy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Yes%2C+I%27m+a+Disney+Adult.+Let+me+explain&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13914736/yes-im-a-disney-adult-let-me-explain","authors":["byline_arts_13914736"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_3114","arts_3570","arts_3797","arts_3241"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13914737","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13914445":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13914445","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13914445","score":null,"sort":[1654548897000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ms-marvel-star-iman-vellani-is-ready-to-officially-join-the-mcu","title":"'Ms. Marvel' Star Iman Vellani is Ready to Officially Join the MCU","publishDate":1654548897,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Ms. Marvel’ Star Iman Vellani is Ready to Officially Join the MCU | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>From the butterflies in your stomach when you’re crushing on someone to the anxiety you feel about life after high school\u003cem>—\u003c/em>every emotion can be heightened when you’re a teen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes even minor inconveniences can make you feel as if the world is ending, which is how it was for 19-year-old Iman Vellani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was one thing she didn’t have to worry about: what she was going to do next. Her future was \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/aav1523_101_trl_comp_v052_d00a8f7f_custom-9cbd448a11b298a3b1f7e62967dad6556db71b8d-800x471.jpe\" alt=\"A girl of Pakistani descent stares dumbfounded into the camera, her eyes glowing red.\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Khan, portrayed by Iman Vellani, is a Pakistani American teen living in Jersey City who discovers she has superpowers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the end of her senior year, Vellani had gotten the news she was going to star as Kamala Khan, Marvel’s first Muslim superhero to headline her own comic, in the new Disney+ show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Vellani, whose childhood was spent reading comics and watching Marvel movies, this was a dream come true. But her new reality as a star in the Marvel Cinematic Universe still feels surreal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like when you walk into a room that you’re not supposed to be in, but no one kicks you out. That’s what’s happening here,” she tells NPR’s \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scheduled to premiere Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/02/756679264/live-action-ms-marvel-is-coming-to-disney-streaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the show follows Khan\u003c/a>, a Pakistani-American 16-year-old from Jersey City who spends her free time making online videos about the Avengers—and soon discovers she has powers of her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9EX0f6V11Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like her character, Vellani’s parents emigrated from Pakistan, and the actress is happy to see—and be part of—a superhero show that represents her culture and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vellani discussed the filming of \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em>, how it helped her get back in touch with her roots and why representation in TV and film matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how filming\u003cem> Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> helped her reconnect with her heritage:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_10137029']I was born in Pakistan, and we moved to Canada when I was 1. But my parents really did try to make me as connected with my culture and religion as possible because they were in touch with that part of themselves. But growing up in Canada and being so enamored by American pop culture and Hollywood, I was super dismissive of being Pakistani. It was never something I saw value in up until filming the show, where my eyes were opened. I was meeting so many Muslims and South Asians that are so in touch with their roots, and that really made me go back and reconnect with mine. It’s so cool [that] I can kind of find myself again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what it means to have Kamala Khan as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvel is one of the most accessible franchises in the entire world, and film and TV totally shape how we see people in this world. I think it’s so wonderful to show a child of immigrant parents who’s proud of their culture and doesn’t neglect it. I think it’s great that we’re showing Muslims on screen having fun. Every time you picture Brown people, it’s either they’re super serious or they’re a terrorist. So it’s really great that we can bring some humanity to this culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what advice she would offer other teens:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really think it’s important to find a passion and explore it. You don’t have to have everything figured out at 16. You’re not supposed to. And I think young people should hopefully be comforted by Kamala as a character and see that even a superhero doesn’t have her life figured out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Ms.+Marvel%27+star+Iman+Vellani+is+ready+to+officially+join+the+MCU&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks to the Pakistani-Canadian actress about the show's first season.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006761,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":663},"headData":{"title":"'Ms. Marvel' Star Iman Vellani is Ready to Officially Join the MCU | KQED","description":"NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks to the Pakistani-Canadian actress about the show's first season.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Gurjit Kaur","nprImageAgency":"Marvel Studios","nprStoryId":"1103087563","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1103087563&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/04/1103087563/ms-marvel-star-iman-vellani-disney-plus?ft=nprml&f=1103087563","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sun, 05 Jun 2022 18:09:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sat, 04 Jun 2022 17:11:25 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sun, 05 Jun 2022 18:09:26 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2022/06/20220604_atc_ms_marvel_star_iman_vellani_is_ready_to_officially_join_the_mcu.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1138&d=415&p=2&story=1103087563&ft=nprml&f=1103087563","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/11103114145-5b2505.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1138&d=415&p=2&story=1103087563&ft=nprml&f=1103087563","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/arts/13914445/ms-marvel-star-iman-vellani-is-ready-to-officially-join-the-mcu","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2022/06/20220604_atc_ms_marvel_star_iman_vellani_is_ready_to_officially_join_the_mcu.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1138&d=415&p=2&story=1103087563&ft=nprml&f=1103087563","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From the butterflies in your stomach when you’re crushing on someone to the anxiety you feel about life after high school\u003cem>—\u003c/em>every emotion can be heightened when you’re a teen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes even minor inconveniences can make you feel as if the world is ending, which is how it was for 19-year-old Iman Vellani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was one thing she didn’t have to worry about: what she was going to do next. Her future was \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/aav1523_101_trl_comp_v052_d00a8f7f_custom-9cbd448a11b298a3b1f7e62967dad6556db71b8d-800x471.jpe\" alt=\"A girl of Pakistani descent stares dumbfounded into the camera, her eyes glowing red.\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamala Khan, portrayed by Iman Vellani, is a Pakistani American teen living in Jersey City who discovers she has superpowers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the end of her senior year, Vellani had gotten the news she was going to star as Kamala Khan, Marvel’s first Muslim superhero to headline her own comic, in the new Disney+ show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Vellani, whose childhood was spent reading comics and watching Marvel movies, this was a dream come true. But her new reality as a star in the Marvel Cinematic Universe still feels surreal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like when you walk into a room that you’re not supposed to be in, but no one kicks you out. That’s what’s happening here,” she tells NPR’s \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scheduled to premiere Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/02/756679264/live-action-ms-marvel-is-coming-to-disney-streaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the show follows Khan\u003c/a>, a Pakistani-American 16-year-old from Jersey City who spends her free time making online videos about the Avengers—and soon discovers she has powers of her own.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/m9EX0f6V11Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/m9EX0f6V11Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Like her character, Vellani’s parents emigrated from Pakistan, and the actress is happy to see—and be part of—a superhero show that represents her culture and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vellani discussed the filming of \u003cem>Ms. Marvel\u003c/em>, how it helped her get back in touch with her roots and why representation in TV and film matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how filming\u003cem> Ms. Marvel\u003c/em> helped her reconnect with her heritage:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_10137029","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I was born in Pakistan, and we moved to Canada when I was 1. But my parents really did try to make me as connected with my culture and religion as possible because they were in touch with that part of themselves. But growing up in Canada and being so enamored by American pop culture and Hollywood, I was super dismissive of being Pakistani. It was never something I saw value in up until filming the show, where my eyes were opened. I was meeting so many Muslims and South Asians that are so in touch with their roots, and that really made me go back and reconnect with mine. It’s so cool [that] I can kind of find myself again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what it means to have Kamala Khan as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvel is one of the most accessible franchises in the entire world, and film and TV totally shape how we see people in this world. I think it’s so wonderful to show a child of immigrant parents who’s proud of their culture and doesn’t neglect it. I think it’s great that we’re showing Muslims on screen having fun. Every time you picture Brown people, it’s either they’re super serious or they’re a terrorist. So it’s really great that we can bring some humanity to this culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what advice she would offer other teens:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really think it’s important to find a passion and explore it. You don’t have to have everything figured out at 16. You’re not supposed to. And I think young people should hopefully be comforted by Kamala as a character and see that even a superhero doesn’t have her life figured out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Ms.+Marvel%27+star+Iman+Vellani+is+ready+to+officially+join+the+MCU&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13914445/ms-marvel-star-iman-vellani-is-ready-to-officially-join-the-mcu","authors":["byline_arts_13914445"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_7584","arts_3114","arts_977","arts_3570"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13914452","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13912477":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13912477","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13912477","score":null,"sort":[1650999809000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bad-bunny-will-be-the-first-latino-to-lead-a-live-action-marvel-movie","title":"Bad Bunny Will be the First Latino to Lead a Live-Action Marvel Movie","publishDate":1650999809,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bad Bunny Will be the First Latino to Lead a Live-Action Marvel Movie | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, aka the singer Bad Bunny, doesn’t only want to sell out concert venues. Sony announced that the Grammy winner will play the lead role in Marvel’s upcoming film \u003cem>El Muerto\u003c/em>. This will be the first time a Latinx actor has their own live-action superhero film in the Marvel universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13911337']Bad Bunny will play the character of Juan Carlos Estrada/El Muerto (the dead one), an antihero who acquires his powers from a mask that has been passed down from generation to generation. The film will be a spinoff of the Spider-Man franchise, in which El Muerto is set to attend a wrestling charity event to wrestle Spider-Man in the attempt to unmask him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bad Bunny searched the Spider-Man comic book archives for characters he thought would fit him and selected \u003cem>El Muerto\u003c/em>, who was first introduced in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The singer also has experience with wrestling. In 2021, he made his wrestling debut on WWE WrestleMania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2022/04/bad-bunny-spider-man-el-muerto-sonys-marvel-pic-1235009269/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Deadline\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Bad Bunny told Sony Motion Picture Group President Sanford Panitch: “I love wrestling. I grew up watching wrestling and I’m a wrestler. I’m a former champion so this is why I love this character. I think it’s the perfect role to me and it will be epic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will not be the singer’s first experience with acting. He previously had a role on Netflix’s \u003cem>Narcos: Mexico\u003c/em> and this summer he will be on the big screen in \u003cem>Bullet Train\u003c/em>, also starring Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13902470']A push for Marvel to diversify its cast seems to continue. While Mexican American actor Salma Hayek shared the stage with co-stars in 2021’s \u003cem>Eternals\u003c/em>, Bad Bunny will be the lead in \u003cem>El Muerto\u003c/em>. It wasn’t until 2018 when Chadwick Boseman starred in \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> that Marvel had a non-white actor play a lead superhero role. Since then, there has also been \u003cem>Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,\u003c/em> starring Simu Liu and Akwafina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bad Bunny will be busy up until shooting for \u003cem>El Muerto \u003c/em>commences. Later this year he will embark on \u003cem>Bad Bunny: World’s Hottest Tour \u003c/em>and earlier this month he\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb0SjlIF8U5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> announced\u003c/a> another album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film is set to premiere in theaters on Jan. 12, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Bad+Bunny+will+be+the+first+Latino+to+lead+a+live-action+Marvel+movie&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Puerto Rican musician will play the title character in the 'Spider-Man' spinoff, 'El Muerto'.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006933,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":414},"headData":{"title":"Bad Bunny Will be the First Latino to Lead a Live-Action Marvel Movie | KQED","description":"The Puerto Rican musician will play the title character in the 'Spider-Man' spinoff, 'El Muerto'.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Greg Doherty","nprByline":"Lilly Quiroz","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1094766125","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1094766125&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094766125/bad-bunny-first-latino-marvel-el-muerto?ft=nprml&f=1094766125","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 26 Apr 2022 14:37:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 26 Apr 2022 05:56:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 26 Apr 2022 14:37:08 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2022/04/20220426_me_hr2_return-lf.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1045&d=27&p=3&story=1094766125&ft=nprml&f=1094766125","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/11094766126-39baab.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1045&d=27&p=3&story=1094766125&ft=nprml&f=1094766125","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/arts/13912477/bad-bunny-will-be-the-first-latino-to-lead-a-live-action-marvel-movie","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2022/04/20220426_me_hr2_return-lf.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1045&d=27&p=3&story=1094766125&ft=nprml&f=1094766125","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, aka the singer Bad Bunny, doesn’t only want to sell out concert venues. Sony announced that the Grammy winner will play the lead role in Marvel’s upcoming film \u003cem>El Muerto\u003c/em>. This will be the first time a Latinx actor has their own live-action superhero film in the Marvel universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13911337","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Bad Bunny will play the character of Juan Carlos Estrada/El Muerto (the dead one), an antihero who acquires his powers from a mask that has been passed down from generation to generation. The film will be a spinoff of the Spider-Man franchise, in which El Muerto is set to attend a wrestling charity event to wrestle Spider-Man in the attempt to unmask him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bad Bunny searched the Spider-Man comic book archives for characters he thought would fit him and selected \u003cem>El Muerto\u003c/em>, who was first introduced in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The singer also has experience with wrestling. In 2021, he made his wrestling debut on WWE WrestleMania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2022/04/bad-bunny-spider-man-el-muerto-sonys-marvel-pic-1235009269/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Deadline\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Bad Bunny told Sony Motion Picture Group President Sanford Panitch: “I love wrestling. I grew up watching wrestling and I’m a wrestler. I’m a former champion so this is why I love this character. I think it’s the perfect role to me and it will be epic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will not be the singer’s first experience with acting. He previously had a role on Netflix’s \u003cem>Narcos: Mexico\u003c/em> and this summer he will be on the big screen in \u003cem>Bullet Train\u003c/em>, also starring Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13902470","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A push for Marvel to diversify its cast seems to continue. While Mexican American actor Salma Hayek shared the stage with co-stars in 2021’s \u003cem>Eternals\u003c/em>, Bad Bunny will be the lead in \u003cem>El Muerto\u003c/em>. It wasn’t until 2018 when Chadwick Boseman starred in \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> that Marvel had a non-white actor play a lead superhero role. Since then, there has also been \u003cem>Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,\u003c/em> starring Simu Liu and Akwafina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bad Bunny will be busy up until shooting for \u003cem>El Muerto \u003c/em>commences. Later this year he will embark on \u003cem>Bad Bunny: World’s Hottest Tour \u003c/em>and earlier this month he\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb0SjlIF8U5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> announced\u003c/a> another album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film is set to premiere in theaters on Jan. 12, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Bad+Bunny+will+be+the+first+Latino+to+lead+a+live-action+Marvel+movie&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13912477/bad-bunny-will-be-the-first-latino-to-lead-a-live-action-marvel-movie","authors":["byline_arts_13912477"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_2519","arts_5747","arts_3570","arts_4244"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13912480","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13911337":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13911337","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13911337","score":null,"sort":[1648667175000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oscar-isaac-marvel-moon-knight-disney-ethan-hawke","title":"In Marvel's Uneven 'Moon Knight,' Oscar Isaac Waxes and Wanes","publishDate":1648667175,"format":"standard","headTitle":"In Marvel’s Uneven ‘Moon Knight,’ Oscar Isaac Waxes and Wanes | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>The ‘reluctant hero’ cliche is a tough thing to get right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever a creator busts it out, they’re knowingly inviting the audience’s frustration—in fact, they’re \u003cem>using \u003c/em>it, to drive the story. We the audience don’t understand why a character gifted with whatever power they’re gifted with would avoid using that power; we paid our money to see that power unleashed, after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the creator wants to build tension, so for long stretches of time the hero stubbornly refuses to go full ham, even when the situation clearly calls for it. The creator is surfing on a wave of the audience’s frustration for as long as they can, knowing that it will inevitably crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13902470']In conventional hero stories, the reason for the refusal tends to devolve to 1. an attempt to avoid the weight of heroic responsibility, or 2. an attempt to prevent lots and lots of bad guys from dying extremely wet, splattery, flesh-gobbetty deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marvel’s \u003cem>Moon Knight\u003c/em>, Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac), the meek museum gift-shop clerk who learns that his sleepwalking condition is more a sleepmurdering condition, is your classic Option 2 kind of guy. He’s horrified at the knowledge that he seems to be sharing his body with a grim ultraviolent mercenary named Marc Spector (also Oscar Isaac), with whom he can only converse by gazing into a mirror or other reflective surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Luckily, Steven/Marc’s particular corner of the Marvel Universe is positively \u003cem>festooned \u003c/em>with wildly convenient reflective surfaces. Seriously, everywhere he looks. The whole show might as well take place in a Bed Bath and Beyond.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series grounds us in Steven’s point-of-view from the start, which is smart—we get to come along for the ride as he slips in and out of control of the body he shares. These sequences are among the show’s cleverest and most entertaining. Creator Jeremy Slater and his team delight in frustrating our expectations by frequently denying us the visceral thrill of onscreen violence and having Steven “awaken” only in its grisly aftermath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzXkpLQUWQo\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The reluctant hero setup backfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eventually, around halfway through the season’s run (\u003cem>Moon Knight \u003c/em>is a six-episode series, the first four of which were made available to critics), the show dutifully locks into the familiar ‘reluctant hero’ schtick: Marc wants to take over to deal with the bad guys, Steven refuses to let him but then relents, rinse, repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, however, is that we the audience aren’t where the show wants us to be, whenever Marc finally gets to unleash himself on the baddies. That all-important impatient/frustrated threshold is still miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13901046']Because Marc? Hardcore, badass man of adventure? Is boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Steven? Goofy, bumbling museum nerd? Is funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaac is clearly having a great time playing Steven, investing the character with a roster of iffily-accented Cockney vocal tics and other bits of business to flesh him out and make him someone we can care about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the underwritten role of Marc, Isaac seems determined to disavow his natural actorly charisma to play a glum, laconic cipher. If he’s going for “lone wolf, wounded by his past,” he’s ended up closer to “surly, jet-lagged office manager.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The net effect is to reverse our rooting interest—instead of impatiently waiting for Steven to let Marc take over and unleash hell, we find ourselves hoping Steven can keep hanging around, so we don’t have to deal with Marc and his one-note, dull-as-dishwater machismo.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Moon Knight\u003c/em> is mostly not about Moon Knight\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You might notice I haven’t gotten around to Moon Knight himself, yet. You know: The \u003ca href=\"https://media.giphy.com/media/26hkhQfnuQIiTEgs8/giphy.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">titular role\u003c/a>? The guy in the white suit who’s on all the promo materials? Looks like what would happen if you mummified Deadpool? That guy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the show doesn’t really get around to him a lot, either. Oh, he shows up from time to time, as he’s the avatar of the ancient Egyptian god Khonshu (who also shows up a bunch, mostly to neg on Steven—he’s voiced by F. Murray Abraham). (If you’ve seen \u003cem>Inside Llewyn Davis\u003c/em>, it’s fun to imagine the bird-skull-headed mummy god telling Steven/Marc “I don’t see money here,” in their every scene together.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Marc and Steven can become Moon Knight, it turns out—and the show has some fun with their divergent takes on the hero—but \u003cem>Moon Knigh\u003c/em>t is mostly the Steven and Marc show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904458']That might be the writers deliberately frustrating our expectations again, or it might have more to do with Isaac not wanting to be acting through a facemask in his scenes with Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow, a cult leader doing the dirty work of a rival Egyptian god.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Moon Knight\u003c/em>, though a Marvel Universe series, maintains a narrow, almost hermetic focus on the Steven/Marc dynamic in its early episodes. Marvel fans looking for the usual dense network of narrative connections to other properties will have to content themselves with tossed-off asides (“that business in Madripoor”), even though the show’s whole ancient-beings-walk-among-us vibe would seem to invite attention from an Eternal or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something happens at the end of the fourth episode that points to a potential shake-up in the show’s narrative mix between Steven and Marc, which seems promising. In the meantime, however, \u003cem>Moon Knight\u003c/em> plays out as an insular psychodrama involving the three characters (Steven/Marc/Moon Knight) played by Isaac, only one of which—Steven, bruv—is clearly defined enough to hold our interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+Marvel%27s+uneven+%27Moon+Knight%2C%27+Oscar+Isaac+waxes+and+wanes&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Isaac plays a goofy gift-shop clerk who—stay with us—discovers he shares his body with an ultraviolent mercenary. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007026,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1027},"headData":{"title":"In Marvel's Uneven 'Moon Knight,' Oscar Isaac Waxes and Wanes | KQED","description":"Isaac plays a goofy gift-shop clerk who—stay with us—discovers he shares his body with an ultraviolent mercenary. 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We the audience don’t understand why a character gifted with whatever power they’re gifted with would avoid using that power; we paid our money to see that power unleashed, after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the creator wants to build tension, so for long stretches of time the hero stubbornly refuses to go full ham, even when the situation clearly calls for it. The creator is surfing on a wave of the audience’s frustration for as long as they can, knowing that it will inevitably crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13902470","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In conventional hero stories, the reason for the refusal tends to devolve to 1. an attempt to avoid the weight of heroic responsibility, or 2. an attempt to prevent lots and lots of bad guys from dying extremely wet, splattery, flesh-gobbetty deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marvel’s \u003cem>Moon Knight\u003c/em>, Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac), the meek museum gift-shop clerk who learns that his sleepwalking condition is more a sleepmurdering condition, is your classic Option 2 kind of guy. He’s horrified at the knowledge that he seems to be sharing his body with a grim ultraviolent mercenary named Marc Spector (also Oscar Isaac), with whom he can only converse by gazing into a mirror or other reflective surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Luckily, Steven/Marc’s particular corner of the Marvel Universe is positively \u003cem>festooned \u003c/em>with wildly convenient reflective surfaces. Seriously, everywhere he looks. The whole show might as well take place in a Bed Bath and Beyond.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series grounds us in Steven’s point-of-view from the start, which is smart—we get to come along for the ride as he slips in and out of control of the body he shares. These sequences are among the show’s cleverest and most entertaining. Creator Jeremy Slater and his team delight in frustrating our expectations by frequently denying us the visceral thrill of onscreen violence and having Steven “awaken” only in its grisly aftermath.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LzXkpLQUWQo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LzXkpLQUWQo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>The reluctant hero setup backfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eventually, around halfway through the season’s run (\u003cem>Moon Knight \u003c/em>is a six-episode series, the first four of which were made available to critics), the show dutifully locks into the familiar ‘reluctant hero’ schtick: Marc wants to take over to deal with the bad guys, Steven refuses to let him but then relents, rinse, repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, however, is that we the audience aren’t where the show wants us to be, whenever Marc finally gets to unleash himself on the baddies. That all-important impatient/frustrated threshold is still miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13901046","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Because Marc? Hardcore, badass man of adventure? Is boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Steven? Goofy, bumbling museum nerd? Is funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaac is clearly having a great time playing Steven, investing the character with a roster of iffily-accented Cockney vocal tics and other bits of business to flesh him out and make him someone we can care about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the underwritten role of Marc, Isaac seems determined to disavow his natural actorly charisma to play a glum, laconic cipher. If he’s going for “lone wolf, wounded by his past,” he’s ended up closer to “surly, jet-lagged office manager.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The net effect is to reverse our rooting interest—instead of impatiently waiting for Steven to let Marc take over and unleash hell, we find ourselves hoping Steven can keep hanging around, so we don’t have to deal with Marc and his one-note, dull-as-dishwater machismo.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Moon Knight\u003c/em> is mostly not about Moon Knight\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You might notice I haven’t gotten around to Moon Knight himself, yet. You know: The \u003ca href=\"https://media.giphy.com/media/26hkhQfnuQIiTEgs8/giphy.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">titular role\u003c/a>? The guy in the white suit who’s on all the promo materials? Looks like what would happen if you mummified Deadpool? That guy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the show doesn’t really get around to him a lot, either. Oh, he shows up from time to time, as he’s the avatar of the ancient Egyptian god Khonshu (who also shows up a bunch, mostly to neg on Steven—he’s voiced by F. Murray Abraham). (If you’ve seen \u003cem>Inside Llewyn Davis\u003c/em>, it’s fun to imagine the bird-skull-headed mummy god telling Steven/Marc “I don’t see money here,” in their every scene together.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Marc and Steven can become Moon Knight, it turns out—and the show has some fun with their divergent takes on the hero—but \u003cem>Moon Knigh\u003c/em>t is mostly the Steven and Marc show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13904458","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That might be the writers deliberately frustrating our expectations again, or it might have more to do with Isaac not wanting to be acting through a facemask in his scenes with Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow, a cult leader doing the dirty work of a rival Egyptian god.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Moon Knight\u003c/em>, though a Marvel Universe series, maintains a narrow, almost hermetic focus on the Steven/Marc dynamic in its early episodes. Marvel fans looking for the usual dense network of narrative connections to other properties will have to content themselves with tossed-off asides (“that business in Madripoor”), even though the show’s whole ancient-beings-walk-among-us vibe would seem to invite attention from an Eternal or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something happens at the end of the fourth episode that points to a potential shake-up in the show’s narrative mix between Steven and Marc, which seems promising. In the meantime, however, \u003cem>Moon Knight\u003c/em> plays out as an insular psychodrama involving the three characters (Steven/Marc/Moon Knight) played by Isaac, only one of which—Steven, bruv—is clearly defined enough to hold our interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+Marvel%27s+uneven+%27Moon+Knight%2C%27+Oscar+Isaac+waxes+and+wanes&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13911337/oscar-isaac-marvel-moon-knight-disney-ethan-hawke","authors":["byline_arts_13911337"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_11323","arts_3114","arts_3570"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13911338","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13902724":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13902724","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13902724","score":null,"sort":[1631206833000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-marvels-shang-chi-asian-americans-are-heroes-not-sidekicks","title":"In Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi,’ Asian Americans Are Heroes, Not Sidekicks","publishDate":1631206833,"format":"standard","headTitle":"In Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi,’ Asian Americans Are Heroes, Not Sidekicks | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As an Asian American growing up in a predominantly white Bay Area community, I never saw much Asian representation, if any, in movies or on TV. When I did, Asian characters were always sidekicks who got minimal screen time and then never reappeared in sequels. With the exception of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctor Strange\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s Wong, played by Benedict Wong, and \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spider-Man\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s Ned Leeds, played by Jacob Batalon, most Asian characters in superhero films are thrown into the background. Seeing these one-dimensional portrayals infuriates me because Asian Americans are incredibly diverse in terms of ethnicity, class, cultural background and language. There is no singular, defining Asian American experience.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marvel’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shows none of the typical “model minority” stereotypes. The protagonist, Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), has a job as a valet driver for the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. He isn’t some hot-shot doctor or a successful lawyer; he parks cars for tips and lives in a garage in a back alley of the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His best friend, Katy, played by Awkwafina, lives with her mom, grandma and younger brother, and is also a Fairmont valet driver—a point of contention with her mother. Katy knows and understands some Chinese, but as we discover later in the film, she’s far from fluent. Shang-Chi and his sister, Xialing, played by Meng’er Zhang, understand and speak the language. These complex family and cultural dynamics are refreshing, and stand in contrast to the flat Asian characters we typically see in film.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The film has all the characteristics of a classic Chinese martial arts film: well-choreographed fights that are almost like dances, the traditional Chinese music, accurate costumes (especially with the Ta Lo villagers) and even creatures from Chinese mythology. Simu Liu’s performance as Shang-Chi is raw and real. During the more serious and sad moments, you can tell what his character is feeling as his emotions emanate from the screen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It made me happy to see a Marvel film portray Asian characters with nuance, and even happier to know that this film is succeeding in the box office. People are embracing Shang-Chi the character, which is a big deal after all the violence Asians and Asian Americans have been through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13896306/public-safety-for-asian-americans-starts-with-nurturing-our-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during the COVID-19 crisis\u003c/a>. [aside postid='arts_13902293']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just as 2018’s \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black Panther\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gave America a Black superhero to root for, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shang-Chi\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> marks a major shift in popular culture. This film shows that Asian superheroes can exist as leads of their own stories. It reaffirms that we matter and that we are important, even though the U.S. entertainment industry has historically mocked or ignored us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You don’t have to be a Marvel expert to appreciate \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shang-Chi\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as it barely references previous films and can pretty much stand alone, other than the mid-end credits scene (no spoilers here). Instead, director Destin Daniel Cretton establishes the storylines of this band of characters and gets us prepared for more stories featuring Shang-Chi—and, perhaps most excitingly, his sister, Xialing. [aside postid='arts_13902470']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xialing is fierce. While Shang-Chi trained with his father, Wenwu (played by Tony Leung), leader of the international criminal organization The Ten Rings\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Xialing secretly taught herself to master the rope dart and other martial arts. While Shang-Chi is parking cars, she’s running an underground fight club in Macau. When we first meet her, she beats Shang-Chi in a cage fight, only a day after he demonstrated his own formidable skills while battling members of the Ten Rings on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CTPx418FkL_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speeding San Francisco Muni bus\u003c/a>. Xialing gives young Asian girls a character to look up to; she proves to be just as powerful as her male counterparts in the film, if not more so. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The entire cast is no less stellar, and are among some of the best actors in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Their performances and the brilliant choreography, music and set design make for a film that entertains and destroys stereotypes along the way.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The new superhero film entertains while destroying Hollywood clichés about class, language and culture along the way. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007777,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":698},"headData":{"title":"In Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi,’ Asian Americans Are Heroes, Not Sidekicks | KQED","description":"The new superhero film entertains while destroying Hollywood clichés about class, language and culture along the way. 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This film shows that Asian superheroes can exist as leads of their own stories. It reaffirms that we matter and that we are important, even though the U.S. entertainment industry has historically mocked or ignored us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You don’t have to be a Marvel expert to appreciate \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shang-Chi\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as it barely references previous films and can pretty much stand alone, other than the mid-end credits scene (no spoilers here). 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