Hello everyone, I have an important issue to discuss. My last Mini Editorial I discussed violence within a comic book film. Now to draw the line between emotion. Emotion can be described as what the hero or a character feels. It could describe the intensity of a moment. Emotion can describe many things. For a few examples to bring forth onto we could look at the film Iron Man 3 and Tony Stark's own journey. Tony Stark is suffering from trauma from his previous outing in the Avengers. He feels pain and we were treated to what that sense of pain was in the beginning of the film. The question is was it too much emotional stress being displayed in the character and did it feel as if it was bordering something out of line for the character normally. As many questionable acts came in place. From him in a powerful state of anger to challenge The Mandarin which in turn endangering the life of Pepper Potts. Many can say yes this definitely drew a line of his emotions where it was too much. Still in terms with the character who was still in a state of being we were not normally in tune with it was not drawing any lines whatsoever. From my own point to say even though we are not used to seeing the character in this extreme emotional state of being it is still acceptable and relevant to the film itself.
Let's look towards another Marvel film recently and a specific scene. In Captain America The First Avenger the infamous train scene where Bucky, Captain America's long standing partner faced his demise. The scene began with action and at it's best the action was cheesy. It felt as if none of the characters where in danger. Until it takes a 360 turn and your immediately placed in that moment where Bucky is hanging off the train after getting blasted by a blue beam. In a matter of 30 seconds the emotions build up and we are spent a quick moment of Captain America looking onward to him falling. There wasn't enough emotional build up leading to that very moment making the scene seem very irrelevant and sudden. In a sense it felt awkward to see. Sometime later within the film we are treated to a short scene with Captain America dealing with the weight of emotion from witnessing that moment. Then it's not mentioned again. As many people can agree their needed to be more displayed for the audience to care enough of what happened.
Often times there can be too much emotion displayed within a film. In an alternate deleted opening to the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk, Bruce Banner tries to end himself before The Hulk takes control of him turning the scene around. It was later mentioned in The Avengers rather than shown. We could see why the scene wasn't placed as an opening. It set up much of a dark tone for a film of that nature. Other times the emotional balance could be perfected as seen in The Wolverine with Wolverine in a constant struggle between being more vulnerable towards his enemies and his weakness being clearly displayed. Where do you think emotion draws the line within a character?
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