My Mother’s Day was really a good one. I got a big bundle of
sunflowers, and spent the day with my son and husband doing what I love to do
on Sunday afternoons, we went out for grilled fish tacos and saw a movie.
I’m sure you can guess which movie we saw—The Avengers!
I loved it. The theater was packed. As you already know this
movie has something for everyone and that’s why it’s doing such good box
office.
I grew up drawing Marvel characters on my school book
covers and any clean sheet of paper I could find. I especially loved Thor, no
surprises there. I learned to love Iron Man when Robert Downey Jr. took on the
role and made it his. I thought Chris Evans’ Captain America was subtle and
amazing for a character that has been handled poorly in the past. Mark
Ruffalo’s Hulk was wonderfully moody, smart and funny.
But I wasn’t prepared for how much I would enjoy Hawkeye.
I’ll credit Jeremy Renner’s terrific acting with making
Hawkeye a fascinating character, that’s almost all sub-text. Hawkeye doesn’t burst
onto the screen and start doing his superhero thing. He's just there as a strong
presence and the viewer has to figure him out.
Hawkeye’s character is doubly
challenged because he gets compromised and turns on his super-peers. During
that time Jeremy Renner has no dialog and his expressive eyes are completely masked in
“Evil-icy-blue-I’ve-been-compromised” contact lens, and he still gets subtitles
across.
Hawkeye and Scarlett Johansson’s character Black Widow have
history and big chemistry and I think it would be crazy for Disney/Marvel
Productions to not give those two their own movie.
What do you think? Have you seen the Avengers?
XXOO Kat
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