Women can be heroes—and old men can be young
THE RELEASE of “Captain Marvel”, the 21st film in the “Marvel Cinematic Universe”, has been good for Marvel’s owners Disney, who made $550m from it over its first week, for fans of Brie Larson, the Oscar-winning actress who gives a wonderful performance as the film’s titular hero, for people nostalgic for 1980s and 90s pop culture, and for old actors who wish to appear young on screen.
Set mostly on the Earth of the 1990s, with some interludes in generic spaceships and on utterly uninteresting alien planets, it has no scope for the world-building that contributed so much to last year’s “Black Panther”, set in the beautifully imagined African kingdom of Wakanda. Carol Danvers, the character played by Ms Larson, exists in a mainly male world the audience already knows—specifically, that of 1980s and 1990s American popular film.
The relationship which gets the most screen time, though, is that between Captain Danvers and Nick Fury, an agent of the mysterious organisation SHIELD, played by Samuel L. Jackson. This is the ninth film in which Mr Jackson has played Agent Fury and he will appear again in at least one of the two that are coming out later this year. His performances never fail to entertain. But there is an issue.
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