Age Of Superheroes: Increasing Popularity Of Comics Movies

What is comics?

In spite of technology development, appearance of various kinds of entertainment, which Internet provides, and a total failure to read, comics still has great popularity among people. Moreover, its popularity is growing day after day, it gains new followers and discovers new authors who write in such a genre. Comics is an art that is between literature and painting, since it includes text and bright pictures.

The history of comics

The first comics was created in the end of 19th century. At that time it was a collection of different pictures united by one common theme. There often were texts under the pictures that were telling about the characters and events represented on the pictures. Also “mute” comics was popular, where was no text at all, but the pictures were very bright and expressive to describe the events without using words. Gradually comics developed and changed with every new age. Today it is still very widespread and widely popular among readers of different countries, age, sex, social status and interest.

The popularity of comic books is largely due to certain features of the genre in different countries. For example, in the former Soviet Union comics became widely popular thanks to children’s literature and magazines, where it was often published. Children were the main readers, but bit by bit comics started to attract the attention of the adults, having expanded the range of target audience.

In Japan the situations was absolutely different. As many years ago, so as today the comic books are mainly read by grown ups. What is more, they often publish comics in books with page volume that often reaches 500 pages. The comics popularity is largely due to the fact that Japanese are very hard-working and do not like wasting any minute of their free time. They is why they prefer reading comics to ordinary books, when in an hour trip on the subway they can read a big volume, know much news and get food for thought.

Today comics is also popular thanks to TV. Animations – almost all Japanese animated cartoons have analogues in the genre of comics. Many Hollywood actions take their plots from comics, or, vise versa, sometimes movie plots become base for comic books, for example, comics about Superman and other heroes, X-Files Mythology are very popular today.

In recent years, there is a special demand on the Japanese manga comics that attract huge number of people by such features as interesting and unusual style of painting, fancy and unimaginable scenes, and seriousness of the issues that are covered in such works. Today there is a huge number of fan clubs, organizations that unite manga fans. Largely due to this genre comics experiences a new peak of popularity. And taking into consideration the temp of modern life, this genre is one of the few that is in the spirit of the time and will only develop in future, offering its readers new plots, heroes, unusual decisions and ideas.

10 main superheroes in the movies

Ant-man (2015)

A thief goes to prison, later he is released from prison and meets a professor, doctor and retired superhero. Professor makes the thief superhero Ant-man. He has an ability to shrink in size and resists the army of shrinking soldiers that threatens the world. The main role is played by Paul Rudd. He in the same role appears in “Captain America: Civil War”.

Spiderman (2002)

A modest student Peter Parker is bitten by a spider with changed DNA, and after that Peter gets new abilities to let the spider web out of the hands and jump easily from skyscraper to skyscraper. Kids adore this movie and their love is supported by tones of various products: beginning with Spiderman’s costume and ending with stylized bags and pens.

Superman (1978)

Clark Kent is a modest clerk, but at night he turns into Superman, who fights against evil. He has supernatural powers. When he was a child, he was sent in a spaceship to the Earth from planet called Krypton. The role of Superman was the debut for the legendary Christopher Reeve.

Batman (1989)

Very rich and very lonely guy Bruce Wayne being a child decides to devote his life to crime fighting. In the bat suit he clears his hometown Gotham City from criminals and eventually goes on the trail of the main criminal, the Joker. The role of the Joker was played by Jack Nicholson. For his role, he received 60 mln dollars, and it was the biggest fee in the history of cinema at the time when the movie was released, it also was listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

Blade (1998)

Quite old Marvel character. for the first time it appeared in a comic book “The Tomb of Dracula” 1973. He is a superhero and vampire fighter. There is vampire blood in his veins, that is why Blade is as strong as vampires, but he is not afraid of sun light and garlic. In the movie, Wesley Snipes played the role of the hero. As in the comics, Blade’s mother was bitten by a vampire when she was pregnant. The woman died but her baby survived. He grew up and started killing vampires. Sometimes he feel desire to drink blood, that is why he has to make injections of serum.

Hulk (2003)

Who does not know Hulk? Everyone knows Hulk. Big green monster, always in violet pans, is also known as Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, physicist. After gamma bomb explosion he turns into a monster. In comics he appeared in 1962 for the first time, and in his 50-year history he fought with many Marvel superheroes and supervillains. Movie by Ang Lee about green monster was released in 2003, and the main role was played by Eric Bana.

Hellboy (2004)

His real name is Anung Un Rama. According to the legend he is the son of the Devil and was born in 1944 in the result of a mystical ritual, which was performed by Grigory Rasputin on request of the Third Reich occultists. But the little devil gets to the Americans and grows up at a military base. Later he starts working at the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense. He has classical appearance: red skin, tail, horns, which he regularly rasps off. In the movie the red skinned superhero is embodied by Ron Perlman.

The Iron Man (2008)

The millionaire turns into superhero by circumstances: during a trip to Afghanistan he was stolen by terrorists. The main role was played by Robert Downey Jr.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

For the first time he appeared in the release of the Hulk comics in 1974. He is a member of the group of superheroes X-Men. He does not grow old, and all wounds and injuries heal very fast. He was born in Canada in the 80s of the 19th century. The role of Wolverine was always played by Hugh Jackman.

Kick-Ass (2010)

The superhero is a student. His name is Dave Lizewski. He has now super powers, he just decides to become superhero. Soon after his not very successful tries to fight the criminals, he meets Big Daddy and Hit Girl. Later Red Mist joins them. Later he becomes antihero.

The Green Hornet (2011)

One of the most handsome superheroes. He wastes his father’s money on parties, good cars and girls. After his father’s death he revises its attitude towards life: he does not quit drinking but decides to fight evil. There is also a talented mechanic Kato, who creates various devices that help them to confront the criminal world.

Top 10 Best Superhero Movies according to Empire

The British magazine made a rating, based on the results of the reader's vote.

Empire magazine has published the list of best superhero movies. So here is the top 10 best “superhero” movies for you.

1. “The Dark Knight” (2008, Christopher Nolan, starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger).

2. “X-Men 2” (2003, Bryan Singer, starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry).

3. “Superman 2” (1980, Richard Lester and Richard Donner, starring: Christopher Reeve).

4. “The Avengers” (2012, Joss Whedon, starring: Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson).

5. “Superman” (1978, Richard Donner, starring: Christopher Reeve).

6. “Spider-Man 2” (2004, Sam Raimi, starring: Maguaer Tobey, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco).

7. “Batman Returns” (1992, Tim Burton, starring: Michael Keaton).

8. “Unbreakable” (2000, M. Night Shyamalan, starring: Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson).

9. “Keepers” (2009, Zack Snyder, starring: Patrick Wilson, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup).

10. “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014, James Gunn, starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel).

We should mention that the box office results do not coincide with the choice of Empire readers. The most commercially successful film in the list is “The Avengers” that earned $ 1.5 billion. “The Dark Knight” is on the second place with more than one billion dollars. “Spider-Man 2” is on the third place with 783 million dollars box office.

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