Genre Research

Superhero Movies
Films adapted from comic books featuring heroic protagonists have risen in popularity in recent years, due to the traction from their comics. These stories often told stories of moral conflict of varying sorts, bringing in topics of ethics, Batman's no kill rule is an example of this as it includes ideas of capital punishment and the efficiency of corporal punishment. Many superhero movies contemplate the idea of good and evil, as the genre started the ideas brought up grew more complex, anti-heroes began to gain the public's favour which introduces a morally grey protagonist. Some superheroes made mimicked religious imagery such as Superman, with him being a god-like presence, while other superheroes were made to appear as human as possible to have a reliability with the audience. 

With the increased popularity of superheroes, started the critiques and parodies of heroes with movies like Watchmen and Deadpool, which comment on the cliches of the genre while having their own intriguing films.
Though, cliches aren't always a bad thing, some of the most amazing superhero films use the same cliches, such as using the death of someone important to the hero, keeping a secret identity, having an obvious love interest, villains breaking out of prison, and many more. A good movie can manipulate the cliches their audience is used to and subvert expectations.
One appraised modern superhero movie is Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, this movie is animated, won an Oscar, and is one of my favourite superhero movies. To make this movie they hired 177 animators and even with these animators this movie took a long time to make, since they decided to do something different with the movie, they made it look and feel like you were reading a comic book, which meant using a tone of different animation techniques and experimentation.
The movie was made as if it was shot by a camera, making it feel more fluid. Just by looking at a single frame from this film you can see that the creators cared about the project, because everything was placed there with a purpose. Co-director Phil Lord said, "If you freeze any part of the movie at any time, it will look like an illustration with hand drawn touches and all." Then, when you look at the character, they have significant differences and all look unique. The different characters play on the different types of stereotypical heroes and you can see that by looking at them, how they move and how they talk.

There's one frame from the movie that is the most famous and adored frame of the film, which is at the climax of the film, the protagonist, Miles, does a leap of faith from a building to prove to himself that he is worthy of the Spider-Man title, and in the frame of him falling it is upside down, making it look like he is rising rather than falling. That frame is like a summary of the movie and it looks beautiful.
The buildings are almost symmetrical, and the colours all fit. You can even notice that Mile's shoe lace is untied which references the beginning of the movie where he says that he unties his shoe as a fashion choice. That is why, in my opinion, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is one of the greatest superhero movies.

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