Spawn vs Blade: Ideology and Aesthetics
The ideology issues within this film are quite subtle as the main charater is accentually evil. Like most action films it follows the ideology that one man can make a difference against all odds. In this case, he has to go up against the devil himself. Spawn was once an assassin who came from a middle class environment who had a pretty wife and kid. The thing that makes this super hero different is the fact that the hero and the love interest are being played by an African Americans and the man who is the front man for the side of evil and the wise old guide are white Americans. He ends up becoming the reluctant hero who is constantly battling with his conscience. His boss is a corporate type who is only the front for a far more sinister mind. The way he is portrayed is almost like the corporate bigwigs are morally corrupt. There is a charater who guides spawn through his journey who embodies the "old and wise" attributes. The character that is suppose to lead Spawn astray is a fat little demon who is funny as apposed to evil as if they don't want the audience to take the evil seriously. His best friend is exactly like the hero but doesn't posses the same power, and starts out as a pro
It is purely a visual extravaganza, which was more a set-up for the sequel as apposed to a stand-alone movie. MOVIE TWO: "Blade"Ideology:Most of the ideological aspects of Spawn are the same as in Blade with the hero possessing the power of the evil he is trying to destroy. blem but becomes part of his salvation. The story themselves are nothing more than a visual experience which are designed to set up a market for merchandising and leaving room for further movies to follow with similar themes and hopefully bigger and better effects. The story was more a setting up of the hero and his world, which can be left out of the next movie leaving more time to explore a storyline and action. The theme of the movie categorised as an Action/Horror, but I tend to feel it is more just an action movie, which has characters that come from what we class as evil. The story basically is about an average man who is given power beyond his imagination and has to make a choice the easy road and the hard road. Summery:Both movies are your typical Good vs. Aesthetics:I found that the story had a rather weak plot and story line which the critics and reviews are quick to point out but what they seem to fail to realise is that the movie version of Spawn is simply a visual experience and is probably designed as more of an advertisement for the comic and merchandise. One of the critics in an article mentions that with the main actors being African American that this gives the film a "strong'n'sexy attitude that helps recall the blaxploitation flicks of the Shaft era. Again the evil is played by people who resemble corporate workers and bosses and even the way the Vampire family is run in a very corporate structure with a big table with all the heads of the family sitting around it making decisions. The heroes have to overcome extreme adversity with only the aid of a few others to help guide them on their journey. Luckily we are distracted by the action, weapons and setting to notice this too much. The category that the movie is usually slotted into is a Horror, but apart from the devil, the story is more of an action movie with a fantasy theme, which leaves the level of the unbelievable more likely. The way this differs from the typical action hero movie is the hero usually gets his power from an unlikely place or event (Spiderman) or is always on the side of good (Batman, Superman) with the problems usually being people or situations, not a moral issue.
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