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Post by dividavi on May 27, 2019 2:33:58 GMT
 That's the premise for Brightburn, a movie produced by James Gunn ( Guardians of the Galaxy). My own view is that the world is better off without magic, enhanced beings and other such fictional nonsense. I would never trust the motives of such entities. Here's the trailer and it looks pretty good. Brightburn is of course a ripoff (a more polite word is derivative) of Superman and here's a relevant article you might want to read: James Gunn Reveals If DC Had Issues With Superman-Inspired Brightburn
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Post by maya55555 on May 27, 2019 2:51:49 GMT
INSTEAD OF WHOM?
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Post by OrsonSwelles on May 27, 2019 3:06:21 GMT
Very solid movie. 8/10.
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Post by dividavi on May 27, 2019 3:25:30 GMT
Actually, the question was answered, more or less, nearly 60 years ago in Superman 137, May 1960.  Storyline:On the journey from now-exploded Krypton to Earth the vessel carrying super-infant encounters an Alien space ship somehow fires a duplicator ray that creates a new rescue capsule complete with child. Both craft land on Earth in separate locations.  The original baby lands in a rural area and gets adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent, both good. The duplicate baby gets raise in an urban setting by scoundrels Wolf and Bonnie Derek.  The original baby grows up to becomes Superman, a force for good, whereas the adult duplicate properly describes himself as Super-Menace. The two finally meet and Super-Menace gets a startling revelation about himself: he's not as perfect a Superman duplicate as he had believed. He also learns that his gangster foster parents did not regard him highly. So he kills them and himself.  |
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Post by gadreel on May 28, 2019 22:30:17 GMT
Red Son is a great comic, what if Superman landed in Russia?
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Post by lowtacks86 on May 29, 2019 1:33:55 GMT
Well that's kind of what General Zod is. You could also throw in Bizzaro Superman I suppose.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 29, 2019 3:01:25 GMT
The gist of Superman is "the foreigner is your best friend."
Even more so, it is the idea that you are nothing without the foreigner.
Lex Luthor is the super smart native and he is the bad guy.
Traditional heroes were all natives.
Beowulf, Odysseus, etc.
The strongest smartest person in the village defends it from trouble.
Superman subverts that.
Maybe that is a reason why Captain Marvel was more popular.
Billy Batson is still a local boy, even if he is aided by magic (which is not alien).
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Post by Vegas on May 29, 2019 8:52:44 GMT
I liked the film. I guess.. It could be argued that this is the rip-off story of Marvel's Hyperion... leader of The Sinister Squadron.... who was a rip-off of Superman.  |
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