Yes, she has strange nightmares and odd memories of her earlier life, some of which we clearly recognize as a childhood on mid-20th-century Earth, but, so, like… this another Guardians of the Galaxy, rescued-by-her-space-parents kinda thing, right? Cool! It’s what we dorks have always wanted, to get whisked away from boring old Earth. She works as an elite soldier-spy with a small team of fellow badasses led by Yon-Rogg (Jude Law: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword), who is also her good friend and mentor. (Thank goodness, because we did not need another straightforward origin story.) As the film opens, Vers (Larson: Basmati Blues, Kong: Skull Island) is already living a life that is a science-fiction dream, at least as current fashions for nerdery would have it: She lives on a sleek high-tech alien world, part of the interstellar Kree civilization consisting of all sorts of alien races. The writing-directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have brought an indie ethos - their Mississippi Grind is a small masterpiece - to the big, rowdy comic-book action movie, and turned the origin story upside down and inside out. She is throwing out the rule book and going her own way.īut no, wait, Captain Marvel gets better. #PATREON SUPERPOWERED MOVIE#Vers is not a woman succeeding in a man’s world by following men’s rules… and she’s not a female superhero succeeding as a character in a blockbuster movie by doing the same stuff male superheroes do. Hidebound, small-minded men are beneath her, and she will not play their stupid dick-measuring games. What’s more, Vers is so goddamned awesome and powerful and confident that she doesn’t even need to kick a man’s ass - not even a man who desperately needs it and is literally asking for it - to prove it. Her ability to face challenges to her preconceptions and to change and grow as she learns new things terrifies you, because you can’t do that, or won’t. Which is what makes her better than you, you whiny crybabies, and you know it, and that’s why you hate her. Because what she could be scares some people! This is a movie overtly about someone who is invited to see through the massive edifice of bullshit cultural bigotry that she has been subjected to, the stuff that tells her what is right and what is wrong, who is an enemy and who is a friend, who matters and who doesn’t… and she does look, and it’s uncomfortable at first, but the truth is the truth and ya gotta deal with it. She is a woman who overcomes all the gaslighting she has been subjected to, the lies that attempt to ensure she can never reach her commanding potential, the lies that tell her she is other than and lesser than what she really is. She doesn’t realize at first that that is what she is going to be, but when the evidence is laid out before her, it’s what she knows she has to do. In Captain Marvel, Brie Larson’s alien badass Vers is a warrior for *checks notes* social justice. Oh, you absolute manchildren who cannot cope with a woman headlining a Marvel movie? Who cannot abide a female actor with the temerity to take on such a role while also expressing zero interest in courting your fandom? An actor who doesn’t give a shit what you think? Just wait till you see the movie! (You know you will.)
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