Author: Keith A Spencer
Published on: 14/07/2025 | 00:00:00
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Warner Bros Pictures released a reboot of the Superman film series. The movie grossed an estimated $122m in the United States in its opening weekend. In the past few years, superhero movies regularly reaped more than $500m worldwide in box office totals. The Pentagon played a prominent role in shaping propagandistic narratives in popular culture. As a longtime partner of Hollywood, the Department of Defense has long had the practice of loaning out military equipment to filmmakers in exchange for script approval rights. In the post-9/11 era, it had a say in the scripts of a number of superhero blockbusters. A 2024 poll from Fox News found that 62 percent of American voters described the US as “on the decline” Only 26 percent thought it was rising. The precipitous drop in superhero movie box office totals began in 2020. This was when the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated already growing societal divisions. In depicting America as, ultimately, a force for good, the superhero movie genre does not speak to either of these political lines. Hollywood elites do not seem to understand this, however. American tendency to hyper-politicise film does not bode well for tentpole blockbusters. Superhero movies are an optimistic as well as a nationalistic genre. Fewer Americans seem to even believe in liberal pillars like democracy and multiculturalism.
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