[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12368″ img_size=”640×320″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]At first glance of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and much of Hollywood still today; there’s something very obvious about the leads in all of these movies. They’re not very diverse. The MCU, after ten years and roughly 18 films; have only just this past year introduced a film with a lead actor who was not a straight, white male. And it did better than any other Marvel movie. Black Panther set the stage for a lot of praise, but also showed the studios that audience members are seeking more diversity with their movies to help not only include everyone, but so that everyone can relate when they see a superhero on screen.
Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios; spoke about how Black Panther-inspired the studios to seek more diversity moving forward:
“Yes, absolutely. Sometimes people have asked very directly, ‘Is [Black] Panther a one-off?’ in terms of inclusion representation and the answer is no, it’s the beginning. That it worked out as well as it worked out just encourages to head in the direction that we were going to head anyway. You look at that film and the experience of the film…it was incredible. That movie, obviously, would not have been what it was if everyone sitting around the table looked like me or you and that’s actually true for all the movies.”
Feige also went on to explain that diversity on-screen of course starts with diversity behind the scenes:
“As Marvel Studios has grown and as our creative team has grown, it’s the same thing,” Feige continued. “It’s almost half men, half women now. We try to grow and promote in-house, almost anybody that works around me has worked here for many, many years and people are going on the produce some of our next films came in below people producing the films now. When you have diverse voices, you get better stories and you get more exciting stories and you get more surprising stories and that is something very, very clear to us.”
Along with Black Panther, Captain Marvel is also breaking ground. While we have female superheroes (and even villains i.e. Hela), we’ve never had a movie within the MCU that was not only centered around a female warrior, but that her name was the title for the movie. It’s hard to even believe that after all this time we’re just now getting a female-led movie and despite the hype for this and the success of Black Panther, there’s still so much work to be done. Representation stretches across all cultures, races, gender, and sexuality. While the Netflix Marvel universe gave us some LGBT representation, the movie MCU has not. Hopefully, Feige and his team will see the example movies like Black Panther and Captain Marvel lead and do better moving forward.
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