"The First Superhero Movie Ever Is More Than 100 Years Old" Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Jul 2018 10:08 p.m. PST |
"The first real film based on a Marvel/DC character was 1966's Batman: The Movie, starring Adam West's campy version of the Caped Crusader. In the ‘40s and ‘50s, Batman, Superman, Captain Marvel (now known as Shazam), and Captain America all had weekly, live-action serials shown in theaters, while the first Zorro movie premiered in 1920. But the first movie superhero came out even before that, in 1916—in an almost-forgotten serial film starring an equally forgotten hero: Judex. Louis Feuillade was already a successful French filmmaker when he made Judex; his serials Fantômas (1913) and Les Vampires (1915) both featured mysterious, ruthless, crafty all-but-superpowered criminals. Feuillade was criticized for glorifying evil-doers, so he decided to create a similar film with a more heroic protagonist. The result was Judex—Latin for "judge."…"
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| surdu2005 | 08 Jul 2018 7:54 a.m. PST |
There were a number of super hero serials in the Fourier. |
 KimRYoung | 08 Jul 2018 4:08 p.m. PST |
"The first real film based on a Marvel/DC character was 1966's Batman: The Movie, starring Adam West's campy version of the Caped Crusader. Not quite correct, this was released as a full feature in 1951 link Kim |
| Tango01 | 09 Jul 2018 12:12 p.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Redmenace | 12 Jul 2018 7:00 p.m. PST |
Interesting, thanks for posting this. |
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