Hollywood's Tragic Super Hero Addiction

There's this media trope I call “Who's Behind the Curtain?”
It's basically when a media production shows viewers that the premise of the show now hinges on a surprise appearance.
Maybe it's a celebrity? Maybe it's a popular music artist?
It's basically the “variety show” format, as we see new reveals of various popular figures proceed.
How fun.
It's a traditional reveal structure where suspense is cleverly hidden and worded into the scripts and aesthetics. “Who's up next?” the question begs your attention.
The format is much older, but when it became a media production format in the early 1930s, it became something very common, and still informs contemporary postmodern “late night” variety shows.
I call it postmodern, because the construction of the content IS the content.
The forming of the cast of people on board becomes itself the feat of the production. No longer is it attempting to be modern art, it is a product that fully acknowledges itself as “superior” product. The same thing as before, but this time, better.
Why is it better? Because there's more! More of the content you know, shoved into one production.
Now, let's imagine that, but turned into the world of fictional entertainment.
This is, and has almost always been, superhero media.
And that's not necessarily a bad thing. But it is a thing.
Big budget Super Hero movies have been largely the main staple of motion picture production and distribution since the early 2000s, and after 20 years... things about this format are starting to show their “wear and tear”.
And many are noticing it. And commenting on it.
So what exactly does this mean? Is the genre of production finally collapsing? Are we seeing a financially recognizable return to original Hollywood productions? Has Hollywood been riding too high on the returns of bigger and bigger comic book themed action films,
and now is perhaps facing a huge economic crash?
You'll just have to wait for the reveal to find out. Haha, oh god- COMIC BOOKS ARE WEIRD
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[@rpgclipdatabase]

Maybe it's not superhero fatigue per say, but rather "cameo fatigue"?

[@meme.interzone]

I haven't heard of this "Who's Behind the Curtain" trope before... Interesting.

[@anotherblowncartridge]

Finally, a bigger video essay 🎉

[@terrymoss2183]

I think it'd be fin if the movies were still good. Sure the pre 2020 era had bad ones like Thor 2, Iron Man 2, etc. yet these new movies are so much worse, yet they don't have distinct qualities to prove how they're bad. They just FEEL worse.

[@linamoss292]

This video ain't getting any views. People are tired of videos complaining about superhero fatigue.

[@Chudsic]

There’s a way to tell these stories well, and there’s examples of comic films that I think will stand the test of time like the Dark Knight. But the current health of comic films is poor. I don’t have hope for the future. Dead pool will still get my money tho 😂

[@mediatransmission]

I know I'm definitely gonna be watching Deadpool 3 as well. Who knows , it'll probably get a video on it made in the future, as well.

[@laurabaldesarra3538]

Scorsese was right

[@davidlawton3785]

It’s down to script writers not following the comics

[@mediatransmission]

Well, one could say that always following the source materiel doesn't guarantee box office success, too. Sure, I'd love if screenwriters followed the comic story-lines beat-for-beat, but I don't know if that would necessarily be what mass audiences always want. That would also make every superhero movie all too predictable.

[@aaronyarb4988]

BLADE was the start of the mainstream SUPERHERO craze! Yet, this guy mentions BLADE once, as an afterthought Rewriting SUPERHERO history by leaving out the BLACK imput is as racist as it gets!

[@mediatransmission]

I thought I mentioned Blade? Blade 1 and 2 are amoung my all time favourite action movies; let alone superhero movies. The sad truth is that Blade 1 made around 131 million globally at the box office, where Spider-Man 1 made over 800 million at the box office. I was looking purely at numbers, not race. Apologies if I came off as racist in any way. Not my intent.

[@aaronyarb4988]

@mediatransmission I'm just saying that as far as the Marvel Time-line goes, BLADE was the first BOX OFFICE HIT!!! Of course there were many following that made more money, but BLADE set the bar for BIG BUCK expectations, and this fact was overlooked in your narrative and apology!

[@mediatransmission]

@@aaronyarb4988 Fair enough. Apologies again. Didn't mean to offend.

[@aaronyarb4988]

@@mediatransmission it would be nice to re-edit the narrative of this video to expose viewers to a real accounting of the Marvel World. Out of all the viewers who watch this video, few will read this exchange between you and I... facts will remain blurred!

[@aaronyarb4988]

Thank you for your apology!