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Week Four-final draft

Page history last edited by PBworks 15 years, 6 months ago

 

 

Ever since I can remember I have had this wanting, this obsession, this plan for myself. Become more then what the ideas of the world has in store for you, put your life on the line for the better of humanity. Risk it all to save an innocent soul and maybe one day you can look back and say you saved yourself. From the age of 3 and beyond....yes beyond even now im 18 years old I long and wish to become a hero. Not just any hero, no not a police offier who caught the baby from being thrown from the window by the mother to resuce her from the flames. But a hero that will risk his life and put others in front of myself. These attributes are the ideas and the story of a comic book super hero. The first thing someone thinks of when a person says comic books, is the oversized pussy in spandex and a red cape. Superman, when I was in my adolecence my childhood hero was superman, nothing was better then a guy who could fly, had super human strength, and xray vision. The story of superman starts on his home planet of Kripton, his planet was falling apart and his parents took the initiative, they took they're baby son and placed him inside of a capsul space craft and sent him on his way into space. As I look back I have to think to myself where the fuck are you going to send this kid I mean sure he doesn't die from the emploding planet, but shit what happens if he runs out of oxygen. While superman is just gleening through space he is sucked into the gravity feild of the might earth. He crash lands in the small town of Smallville a little piece of shit nowhere town on in Kansas....of all placed why the fuck Kansas?, a couple who see the crash decides to be detectives, instead of calling the police. Sure even if you call the cops it would take a good 3 hours before they got out to the crash. But they risked their lives, the story of superman really jumps from his childhood to his late 20s early 30s...pretty much like the Bible describes Jesus. I had an obbsesion of Superman for many years....till I found out that superman was the biggest pussy on the planet. A grown man who has the ability to rule the world and take advantage of people, was a soft hearted person who had a weak heart. You probly think from the last sentence that I must be some cold hearted son of a bitch....to be honest I am, I am a dick. But I understand the reason superman doesnt take advantage of people is because he is going for a greater good, some shit like a Jedi. But in a copy of Superman with a guest appearance of Batman. Now anyone who know about Batman know that he is a badass, when he was like 7 he watched his parents die from a shooting, but we will get into this later on. Superman finally breaks down and admits that he has accutualy killed someone, when he admit this to Batman he is in tears. I feel that this man who is a hero to many should not be such a emotionally weak bitch. From then on I decided that to never show a want to be like superman. I was done I had lost my want to be a fan of comics a dark side of me such that of Aniken Skywalker.

^You are a fucking bitch!

 

I threw myself out of comics for a long time. Sure call me weird and a nerd but I grew up with this shit and to find out that my hero was a bitch. I was over my addiction for 4 years till I picked up a copy of the Punisher. I saw for the first time what a badass superhero was really about, a man who lost his family from a mob battle, he served in the elite special forces unit Delta force. After loosing his family he went crazy, he became an alcoholic and had an itchy trigger finger. He wasted people left and right and I was amazed I didnt know what to think other then this guy is a  badass mother fucker. But soon my feeling faded and I grew old of him, sure he caught my eye with spilling boxes of bullets inside the comic, but I needed a new fix something that could possibly fix the gap that superman left.  I felt like was a junkie trying to find the next high to spark me up. Everything I tried nothing worked, the itch grew stronger and stronger, my longing to become a superhero was at its peek. I had no where to go I need to find something to grab me and bring me into a new world of domination and volience and along with that the rush of being a hero and fighting the fear that people had. As I sat atop of the montain I pondered what would give me the high that I once had before. I began to wonder and dout my past, maybe my life was not to be a hero....maybe my life was to be something else something darker something that didnt fight the fear of people but placed the fear inside them...yes a villian. I saw it a sort of excitement the idea that you live for nothing and die for anything. It caught me and dragged me into the abbyss. I always got a kick out of bank robberies....maybe I could do it better. Like the movie Heat with Al Pacino and Robert DeNeiro. I always recall the Dane Cook skit about That every guy wants two things: a Monkey and to Rob a Bank. "WHERES THE VAN!!!!" running down the street with an AK 47 blasting left and right would be pretty badass. I dont know if it was just me coming into maturity and the rush of danger sparked something inside of me but the idea of being the bad guy was a hoot. If you look at the majority of badguys in the popular media culter from movies to books they usually are the guys that are fucking cool. Brad Pitt played Tyler Durdan in the film adaption to Chuck Palahniuk novel fight club. He was laid back, funny, badass and didnt play games. I finally saw it, I knew why I was so connected with the Punisher, it was becuase he was basically the good guys bad guy. He didnt take shit from anyone and always finished everything with filling the guy with more lead then a pencil. The idea of a villian is that he can get under your skin and dig deep, take the late Heath Ledgers preformance as the Joker in the Dark Knight. He was one of the best villians I have ever seen, he got to you with every action the way he walked the way he talked, even the way he licked his lips it just dug at everyone in the audience. My favorite line from the whole movie was " Do you wanna know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't savor all the... little... emotions. In... you see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are. So in a way, I know your friends better than you ever did. Would you like to know which of them were cowards?" That line would piss anyone off who had friends of theirs murdered by the joker. But it takes more to be a villian then to be a hero, you have to know what todo, the hero just waits for the villian to do something so he can attempt to stop him. The villian on the other hand is planning the hostage take over and bank robbery, the assassingation plot. There is a great deal of thinking and planing that goes into being a villian. Who to kill, when to kill them.......but the little things that make the villians so great is there undieing passion to end the heros rain. I have never seen some much dedication to their job....trust me I know dedication I wrestled in high school it wasnt fun to cut weight. Take Lex Luther for instance, always capturing Lois Lane, trying to lure Superman *cough* bitch *cough* into a room full of Krypotonite. I will shoot it from another villian Harry Osbourn, the son of the green Goblin who was a long time friend of Peter Parker aka Spiderman. A somewhat peaceful guy till he sat at the foot of his father as he died, his blame went on Spiderman and so did his obession. I was the villian I connected wtih them I thought their thoughts....not literarlly lol. But I grew fond of them and knew that there was no coming back from this dark beyond I had ventured into. The past 2 weeks I had gone into deep thought about the McCloud Book Understanding comics. McCloud states that what you see can somewhat make a referece to you and in the picture can either see yourself or nothing at all. I feel that now that when I see a movie or read a comic I have an understanding and get in touch with the villian and find myself thinking like him. In the end I make a huge connection with the ideas of the heros and villians of comics. Even today I can some whay see myself standing on the threshold of the villian world and the hero world. This doesnt mean that Im gonna go out and start holding people hostage or throw on a mask and try to stop a bunch of robbers from looting a house. I just have now grown from a imagination world of comic relationship to a now self image portrait of myself. Who knows what lies infront of me in the world of choosing between good and evil, but all I know is that someday I will have to choose....but I hope that day doesnt come to soon......ok that was a little nerdy i have to admit that was pretty stupid but shit man its mine 

  or .....who knows?!?!

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