#marvel vs dc

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Marvel vs. DC, at the Movies

Marvel’s super-heroes almost never worked on film. (Thomas Jane's "Punisher," and the first "Blade" being about the only exceptions.) Individually, the characters fell apart; they couldn't stand on their own. It makes sense. In the original comics, Stan Lee and his collaborators built a universe of dozens of interconnected characters, from scratch, over the course of less than a-year-and-a-half, from 1962-1963. It's baked into the bread for these characters to work together.

So Marvel Studios decided to do what Stan, et al. had done. The directors of the individual films work more like the directors of a TV series: not the one in charge, but merely the one in charge of this episode, with all of the writers and directors reporting to the show runner of the shared universe, Kevin Feige.

And it worked.

DC's super-heroes have only ever worked on film when they're separated from each other. Again, it makes sense. These characters were each created in a vacuum, by dozens of separate writers, artists, and editors. Heck, they came from three different publishers. It took over two-and-a-half years (from 1938 until 1941), and two corporate takeovers (one of them quite hostile), to get from Superman to the Justice Society. It’s bred into the bones of each of these heroes to take the lead role, to stand alone as the singular force for good holding back wave after wave of the forces of evil.

So Warner Bros. took each individual character and handed them off to various auteur-style directors, who were allowed to do whatever the hell they wanted to with the character.

And it worked. For years.

And then Warner Bros. looked over at Marvel Studios, and decided – in a staggering feat of cowardice and ego – that they would stop doing what they’d been doing since the days of the newsreels, and instead follow the Marvel formula.

And it failed. Spectacularly.

Marvel went from bad to good, when they figured out what they'd been doing wrong. DC went from good to bad, when they forgot what they'd been doing right.

Here's an analogy, drawn – appropriately enough – from the world of comics:

There are two (main) ways to write a super-hero comic book. One way is called “full script,” where a writer writes a full script, then hands it to an artist to illustrate. The other way is “Marvel style,” where a writer writes a plot outline, possibly including dialogue snippets and/or thumbnail sketches; he then hands that to an artist, who fills in the rest from his imagination; the artist then hands the art back to the writer, who writes the final captions and dialogue.

Some writers can only work full script; some can only work Marvel style. Almost nobody can do both. They’re two entirely different animals.

In comic books, as in film, it’s advisable to know your weaknesses, and play to your strengths.

If this trailer [Joker] is any indication, Warner Bros. has finally gotten their DC films back on track.

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Who has made Superman GREAT?

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Doctor Doom was Iron Man and Iron Man was Doctor Doom!! All shall be revealed!!

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