“Superman is the history of the United States: an immigrant that comes from other places to live in the country, but for me it is, first of all, a story that says that the main human kindness is value and what we have lost.” These are the words of James Gann in an interview with the British newspaper “The Times” in the full advertising tour “Superman”, whose premiere will be held this Friday, July 11, who had a lot of echo in the American media, as already mentioned, for example, the “Hollywood reporter”.
Something as innocent as a simple reminder that a “man of steel” is an alien, which acts as a refugee of another planet (crypton), causes hysteria in the most ultra -recognized sectors of the United States, including accusations of “vokism”, when the character himself was born as a symbol symbol. Siegel, the son of Jewish migrants who arrived in New York from Lithuania; And Joe Schuster, Canadian son of Jewish immigrants from the Netherlands.
In fact, Gann’s words should not be a surprise, because he asserted throughout the entire process of preparing the film, which returns to the character’s original spirit, to this idea of hope on the luminous side of the person: “This superman seems to be a certain moment in which people lose hope in kindness. I consider a story of a type, which, in the visible one, considers cultural, which mean on the Internet.
It is likely that his words had a strong influence, because Gann is not only the screenwriter and director of the film, but also with the entrepreneur and executive and executive director of the All DC Studios in Warner Bros., of which Superman (with the permission of Batman) is his maximum indicator. The mission of Gann, in the most strictly commercial sense, is to restart the DC cinematographic universe after an interesting but irregular stage, in which the vision of Zach Snyder prevails. All this, at a time when the public seems to have a certain exhaustion against the stories of superheroes, at least as a mass phenomenon.
Therefore, it is difficult to think that he enjoyed the unexpected (and, nevertheless, slightly amazing) controversial, which was around his words, which seem to be interpreted as criticism of the policy of expulsion of Donald Trump migrants. Numerous users of social networks have already expressed in the last hours that they do not want to watch a movie, and wanting him to be a puncture, as he rubbed the satirical report “Andres Trassado”.
At Fox News, they asked if this was a “superman” of a super-beard, in recent years, creating a well-known meme on social networks, in which in ninety characters, such as Spider-Man, they encouraged children to be good with the weak and respectful minorities, while the same child saw the same superhero today, to say that the same things accused the same things and accused the same things. Its in victims of political correction.
He asked directly about what he would tell the voices of the Magician movement (called the abbreviation “Make America again the Great”, the well -known motto of Trump, who will take possession of “Make the United States”), Gann simply expressed that “he has nothing to say”: “I have nothing to tell you. I’m not here to judge someone. You feel identified. ”
Other people involved in the implementation of the film were more obvious. Sean Gann, actor and brother James Gann, replied: “This is exactly what the film is coming. Superman is an immigrant. We support our people. We love our immigrants. Yes, Superman is an immigrant, and yes, the people we support are immigrants. ” American. ” And Nathan Fillion, an actor, specially known for his leading role in the series “Castle”, who has already worked several times with James Gann, simply pointed out, among the laughter, that “there are people who need their arms”: “This is just a film, guys.”
Gann has already shot the film “Suicide Squad” full of black humor in Columbia County; And the series “The Pacifier” with John Sina in the title role that kept one of the characters and a signal in his previous issue (and this summer his second season). But if Gann was chosen for the re -launch of the DC is associated with the successful degree and charisma of its “Guardians of the Galaxy”, made in his great competitor Marvel Studios (which is part of Disney). The story of losers with a great sense of humor and bad saliva, but also tender and with his heart.
All these contradictions arise without a melon that revealed that the same villain, Lex Lutor, has a clear similarity with technological magnates with Elon Musk. But, feeling this, this is not even the merit of Gann: he was already in the comics, and the director is only trying to be faithful to the vision of some of the best comics and one of the most beloved characters of vinettes. The one that seems to not marry the spirit of the times, which today accuses of innocent or naive, and that for many people it seems to be only interested in their abilities, this dimension, which makes him a kind of demigod, and not so much his integrity, his kindness and his sympathy, which for many fans of Superman (Gern between them), more precisely, which determines her.
“The most rebellious act you can do today is to be kind.” This phrase of Gann, it seems, was one of those who contributed to their adaptation, which at one time he rejected, because he felt that it was not the time to do this, and that he had no story to tell. Some time later he decided to launch: he prepared it for a long time (regardless of the result that this person who writes still could not see), and Gann made an advertising campaign of the whole process: Haa shared his love from the script, a finished story about how he inspired his dog adopted by the Crypto character, a faithful accompanied opponent. How he puts him in trouble.
And, despite everything that this project was intended for him, both personal and commercial and commercial, and in the world in which the extreme right play in many countries to move the idea of suffering of massive migrants (and in the country in which they directly do it), Gann is moist more than many expected in the promotion of the film. Perhaps he understood the spirit of his character: Clark Kent (or Kal El, his name of the migrant), a guy who, despite the inconvenience that his long-term actions can cause him, take care of others and simply wants to do the right thing.
