Reykjavík Grapevine - 10.05.2019, Blaðsíða 48

L IF E , T R AV EL & EN T ER TA INMEN T IN ICEL A ND
Issue 07 × 2019
May 10th—May 23rd
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LAST WORDS
Let’s Play An
Endgame
Words: Hannah Jane Cohen
Photo: Art Bicnick
First off: I have been instructed by my editor
that I cannot put any spoilers in this article
about ‘Avengers: Endgame.’ I will honour this
request. Maybe someone falls in love. Maybe
someone dies. Hey, we all will one day.
I will instead focus on the phenomenon that
is Marvel. In less than two weeks, the most
recent iteration of the Avengers made more
than two billion dollars, now on track to beat
‘Avatar’ as the most profitable film ever made.
I applaud this. At least the Avenger’s didn’t
have some sort of white saviour complex.
I get why people saw the movie. ‘Infinity
War’ was a shocker. The bad guy won, and he
didn’t just win, he decimated. He killed half
of all living things, though of course, that
brought up a whole host of questions. Did
he kill half off our gut bacteria? Was there
mass indigestion the day after Thanos’ quasi-
apocalyptic victory? Who knows?
But I’m going to go back to the time before
the Marvel universe was so vast, if you can
remember it. Truthfully, making the first
‘Iron Man’—the film that jump started the
superhero craze—was controversial. Comics
were niche and Iron Man was a particularly
B-list superhero. He’s a bit older, has no in-
nate superpowers, and is basically a billion-
aire genius who wants for nothing. With no
Batman-like backstory or notoriety—could
people relate to him?
Well, they did, and it’s a pretty accurate
statement that without Robert Downey Jr.’s
Tony Stark, there’d be no Avengers at all.
But it was the choice to create films within
the same universe that was the most funda-
mental. This allowed them to have the—at
that time—pipe-dream of one day making
an Avengers film. Fast-forward more than 10
years, and all four iterations are within the
top ten highest grossing films ever made,
with ‘Black Panther’ rounding them out at
number ten.
The formula was a dream, but now it’s been
done. ‘Endgame’ was, for me, a fitting finale
to a fabulous series of films. When I left the
theatre, I felt like a whole era was over and it
was a beautiful feeling. I don’t want a ‘The
Hobbit’-, ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find
Them’-, or ‘Star Wars’-esque prequel thing to
happen, but I can’t help but think there’s not
really anywhere for them to go now. But hey—
there are a ton of B-list superheroes ready to
be reborn. I’m voting for The Phone Ranger,
whose fantastic power is that of communica-
tion—something we all need nowadays.
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