Hollywood & Superheroes<1>
Why is Hollywood fascinated by Superheroes ?
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There have been lots of movies about superheroes! Normally each superhero movie is about just one superhero : Superman, or Batman, or Spiderman, or some other fantastic hero. But in 2017 Hollywood gave us several different superheroes in the same film, Justice League, which came out in November 2017. This was exceptional ! Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and more... all in the same movie.
If only they were real ! As Coronavirus strikes the whole world, we could do with a few superheroes to help us get by.
Superman and Batman are just two superheroes out of many. We could also include Spiderman, Wonder Woman, Robin Hood, James Bond, Zorro, Indiana Jones and a lot more. They're all more or less the same person, in different forms. Some are in the past, others in the present, others in the future.
But why does Hollywood love superheroes? Is it a question of money? Of course; but it's not only money.
People have always loved superheroes. Long before the first Hollywood movie, people loved stories about superheroes. Robin Hood has been a popular hero for over 600 years ... and there were others before him.
The first superheroes were real people. Nevertheless, the stories about them were often invented. Some of the oldest European superheroes were Charlemagne and Roland (Orlando). Mediaeval writers and singers invented exciting stories about these real men, just as Hollywood invents stories about tomorrow's superheroes. [253 words]
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WORDS
movie: film(영화)
do with: use, get some help from(사용하다, 도움받다)
long before: a long time before(오래전)
nevertheless: but, yet(그러나)
Charlemagne: Carlus Magnus, Charles the Great(샤를 대제)
mediaeval: from the Middle Ages(중세)