Editorial: From Comic Books To Film and The Audience Who Loves The Characters

Hello Everyone,

A Comic Book is a complex piece of material. It can range from different topics to sections. It can border many genres and attract many groups of people. In account's a film has the same impact of what a comic book does to an audience, it can be well received or it can be panned by critics. In such the difficult step might I add is too adapt a comic book into an actual work of film which has been done over many times. In such it is also difficult on deciding what general audience if they do not know the character will actually view the film or will they attract towards the fans. Marvel has proved themselves recently with their first in cinematic line leading to The Avengers being Iron Man. It was a story that was magnificently lifted from the comic book itself and translated into a near perfect film. It doesn't follow everything exactly but it does so giving the general audience a perfect insight on who this character is. That is an impact most origins films do not have. Most origins films never give that same detail or insight to a character. They just expect the general audience to know the character in perfect hindsight. This is debatable but with the film Batman Begins, it introduced a new Batman different from the previous films before. The movie proved brilliant but in terms of my opinions, the amount of insight to the actual character was lacking. Sometimes films like Batman Begins tends to focus more on story development than actual character development. These are things that have been balanced out in comics easily. Why, it is because most comic books known run on multiple series and agendas throughout different printed issues. With a film you can only have one theme and choose that theme throughout. Another example as you see the opposite, The Amazing Spider-Man were it tended to focus on character development more than the story itself. We have insight on who this new Spider-man was and great detail on the villain. The story didn't seem to progress anywhere at all until the ending. Should this be an example of needing more insight to the actual story or can something be invented in place. Many new ideas can be introduced aside in the story which may upset many people. It is often due to the fact of how incompetent many film makers are towards the actual material and decide to branch of in their own style. For recent example Iron Man 3 shared Shane Black's unique style and it did stray from the other films even the comics. What I think in order to prove successful is to follow a set path that is not only balanced but well gripped. To imply a multiple balance within two hours length is a challenge to lead up to the desired ending confrontation. Most films in recent memory from comic book adaptions have failed to meet those standards and have intentionally rushed through completion of the ideals presented before in the story. When it comes to that no logic or previous knowledge of what you have known does not exist anymore and it's no holds barred in terms of logic. Best example I can think of is the Dark Knight Rises. The ending proved more shallow than the previous before. It was a mixed rush of ideas and thrills that didn't seemly blend in well with the general character. How would the general audience that does not this will understand it properly. It is because of the typical Hollywood Movie Ending that often defies everything we learned in the whole siting of the movie. It is high impact that not only effects the film from the beginning to the end but often does so destroying an entire philosophy. As to the middle translation towards the character it tends to dive more toward comic book territory as it follows similar paths as portrayed in the comic books. It could be the heroes journey to give up or the journey to live on to be something more. We often come to believe not many people understand the own heroes own struggles and what made them who they are. What made them so constructed and what made them so believable. It is not a sense of realism but a sense of belief in people who care about the character. From Comic Books to Film Works it has inspired great generations of imagination on how many people continue to see the portrait of the character. It translated down to many great themes and many great ideas of potential. Although this topic is still debatable it is something for us to think about.

Thank you for reading, I hope you truly think about what I have just said. Have a great day.