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Avengers: Infinity War and the Choice between Love and Victory
WRITER : Admin
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DATE : 24-11-08
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CATEGORY : Movies
Before Joss Whedon made 2012’s The Avengers and changed the caped crossover game forever, he created an arguably even more influential T.V. show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Despite its gothic overtones, Buffy had the rhythms of a superhero story, with special powers, recurring villains, and big deaths and resurrections. And in one particularly significant season finale [spoilers for a 15-year-old episode of television], Whedon gave his protagonist a choice: save the universe or save someone you love.
Buffy’s conflict had the same sort of stakes as Avengers: Infinity War, even if the contours were a bit different. A mad god was on the loose and threatening to destroy all of creation. To bring that apocalypse to fruition, she needed to use Buffy’s sister who was, through some magical mishegoss, the key to this grand undoing. When that threat reached a crisis point, friend and foe alike advised Buffy to make a hard choice and sacrifice her sister for the good of all mankind. But Buffy, undeterred, decided to find another way, to rally her allies and fight this evil, rather than capitulate to it.
It’s the kind of noble choice that heroic characters of all stripes make in these kinds of situations. When they’re presented with an ostensibly no-win scenario, these resourceful (oft-Kirkian) heroes nevertheless find a way to overcome the odds and protect those closest to them, while still slaying whatever dragon is threatening their various villages. In Buffy, that choice served as a tribute to the main character’s determination and loyalty, to her devotion to her sister, and to her resolve to never give up and never stop fighting as long as there’s a glimmer of hope.
But it left me yelling, “To hell with your sister! The entire universe is hanging in the balance, you crazy person!” at my television. Yes, it’s impossibly difficult to lose someone you love, but it’s reckless at best to risk the survival of the whole world for a single life, no matter how much you may care about that life.
In a strange way, that’s the core idea of Avengers: Infinity War, the current successor to Whedon’s 2012 superhero team-up, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. The film is one big, bejeweled scavenger hunt, with the long-teased uber-villain, Thanos, scouring the realms for the six titular infinity stones, in the hopes of wiping out half of all life in the universe.
His is a plan with innumerable points of failure — moments in which one hard choice, one hero sacrificing someone they love, could end Thanos’s otherwise relentless path of horror, or at least prevent the worst of it from coming to pass. And yet, at every step, none of The Avengers are capable of or willing to make that choice, or at least to do so in time for it to make a difference.
Loki, Gamora, Star-Lord, Eitri, Dr. Strange, and Scarlet Witch each had the chance to single-handedly end Thanos’s quest. But accomplishing that would require each to lose the people closest to them, to sacrifice someone they love in order to stop this madness. In the end, when the lives of those they care about hang in the balance, they cannot bring themselves to take that last, painful step.
The arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been, broadly speaking, one of connection, where unlikely allies of convenience and necessity find themselves forging unexpected bonds in trying times and achieving greater things through that shared purpose and unity. Infinity War, on the other hand, frames those bonds not as the source of strength that allows our heroes to face their latest, gargantuan threat, but as the thing that keeps them from being able to stop it.
In a strange way, that’s the core idea of Avengers: Infinity War, the current successor to Whedon’s 2012 superhero team-up, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. The film is one big, bejeweled scavenger hunt, with the long-teased uber-villain, Thanos, scouring the realms for the six titular infinity stones, in the hopes of wiping out half of all life in the universe.
His is a plan with innumerable points of failure — moments in which one hard choice, one hero sacrificing someone they love, could end Thanos’s otherwise relentless path of horror, or at least prevent the worst of it from coming to pass. And yet, at every step, none of The Avengers are capable of or willing to make that choice, or at least to do so in time for it to make a difference.
The arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been, broadly speaking, one of connection, where unlikely allies of convenience and necessity find themselves forging unexpected bonds in trying times and achieving greater things through that shared purpose and unity. Infinity War, on the other hand, frames those bonds not as the source of strength that allows our heroes to face their latest, gargantuan threat, but as the thing that keeps them from being able to stop it.
WRITER : Admin
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DATE : 24-11-24
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