The key to improving the MCU is “making the audience care about their characters” not “bigger stakes,” says The Marvels star Iman Vellani
by winback099
The key to improving the MCU is “making the audience care about their characters” not “bigger stakes,” says The Marvels star Iman Vellani
by winback099
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Agreed
She has become a wealth of wisdom
She’s hitting the nail right on the head. I commend her for openly discussing this stuff, not many actors are willing to do so. Especially with The Mouse in control.
It’s true and I hope the powers that are holding the purse strings are taking notes.
Exactly right. And the problem now is that the over saturation and over complication of the MCU makes everything feel small and fleeting. Everything is just part of the machine. How can we invest in characters when they feel like cogs not people?
Well, she’s right.
She’s wonderful as Ms. Marvel – so charismatic and funny! – and she’s just been a great addition to the MCU on and off screen. The fact that she’s living a dream I would have had as a kid, to play a superhero you are a fan of and even dressed as, is just wonderful and endearing.
Here’s a pic from an older post after the show aired of her on Halloween at 15 as Ms. Marvel before she was cast and her in the MCU costume: [https://i.redd.it/nbo0l4sfxz291.jpg](https://i.redd.it/nbo0l4sfxz291.jpg)
It’s just really nice to see such a big fan get to be part of this thing; not that other Marvel fans aren’t involved in the MCU, but she just has big “fan energy”, you know?
Good Canadian girl right here. In a sea of MCU blandness, I feel she’s done her role well. Very fleshed out character relative to the others. You WANT to root for her.
I hope Ms Marvel gets a second season and kept “street level”.
That would certainly help with endless threat escalation (for a lack of a better term). Hard for me to care what the Avengers fight next if it isn’t bigger than a reality warping god. But if the threat is just the framework to tell a compelling character story then the villain could be Patton Oswalt throwing bananas for all I care.
I think its half and half to be honest. Also creating scarcity is important.
Also give audiences time to miss characters and want to see them again. And don’t make it a situation where you have to watch a bunch of shows to keep up as well.
Absolutely. Why would I care about any stakes when I don’t care about the character(s) they’re attached to? We need time to learn about them, to grow attached to them. Then, it actually emotionally hits.
The movies and shows need good writing. Write the characters well don’t just fall into the easy tropes. Make interesting stories about people.