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Picture someone walking onto the bridge of a starship. Nobody’s spoken yet, and you already know plenty. The color of their uniform tells you what they do for a living. The arrowhead on the chest tells you who they answer to. Maybe there’s a sash over one shoulder, or a jacket that doesn’t quite match […]
James Gunn’s Superman opens with its title character already beaten. Not roughed up, beaten, crash-landed face-down in Arctic snow after losing to something called the Hammer of Boravia, too hurt to fly himself home, whistling weakly for Krypto to drag him back to the Fortress of Solitude. For a character whose entire cultural identity runs […]
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) has a fun sequence that tells you everything you need to know about Peter Quill, and it’s all before he actually speaks. We see a guy in a red leather jacket, brows grooving in concentration, dancing to music as he ignores the weapons pointed at him. He is part funny, […]