Anti-heroes have ruled the
roost in every cinema. They have been one of the most important tools of
parallel, meaningful as well as mainstream commercial cinema and they have been
'the' most important theme element of the experimental cinema. They are best
used to represent the discontent on social malaise.
The parallel and meaningful
cinema like the ones made by Govind Nihalani or Shyam Benegal or many others in
our country or like Steven Spielberg's Oskar Schindler or Mario Puzo's/Francis
Ford Coppola's Vito Corleone and Michael Corleone. The mainstream commercial
cinema does in its trademark 'masala' ways like Khalnayak's Sanjay Dutt or Ram
Lakhan's Anil Kapoor or Deewar's Amitabh Bachchan or like the main protagonists
movies like The Transporter series.
And now it is the turn of the
anti-superheroes.
And the reason is - like the
anti-heroes, the superheroes provide more options to develop the characters -
there are more shades to show including plenty of greys and therefore more (and
interesting plot elements).
Since almost of them are
American imports (or exports), it is needless to explore or talk about any
other cinema.
Suicide Squad is the latest
offering in the series of the movies that started sometimes back. These movies
have superheroes who are sort of supervillainous in their attitudes.
It all began, we can say with
Hancock, as it is the movie that comes to your tongues initially. It introduced
to us (on a mass scale) a superhero who had loads of grey shades in his
character yet he was the hero because he ended up doing good things, punching
and packing up the bad guys. Then there were many X Men movies who had
characters with shades of grey who initially did bad things but then ended up
doing the Good Samaritan jobs.
More recently, the trend
seems to have picked up from Deadpool which did brilliant business. It is again
an instalment in X Men series of films. It has a superhero owing his genesis to
some scientific experiment gone horrible wrong but an experiment that gives him
superhero abilities. He is foul mouthed and lives a life that cares for his
personal sphere of life only. And the latest offering in the series is 'Suicide
Squad'.
To continue..
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