Growing up I had read tonnes and tonnes of mythological
tales. My favourite was the epic Mahabharatha. The main plot is absolutely
fantastic. I loved every bit of how the story took twists and turns. What blew
my mind was the fact that each character had their history. They had their own
tale to tell. The different characters manage to enter into the main plot and
entwine themselves in the main story beautifully. Everyone fit like a glove. The
different characters coming together for a common cause is a time tested plot.
And the same is used in the movie – The Avengers.
I personally love the movie ‘The Avengers’. It has all the
makings of a blockbuster. There is action, comedy, drama, emotion and even a
little bit of romance if you look hard enough. No one goes to see this movie
with the intent to look for inspirational messages. But there are a few things
you could pick up from it. Sometimes, the best messages come from the most
unexpected places.
The movie begins with Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D (Strategic
Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) an agency in charge of
world peace, working on the Tesseract. This alien technology is filled with
unlimited power. Nick tries to build weapons in order to maintain peace (irony
by itself). When this device mysteriously opens up a portal to another
universe, a Demigod makes his grand entrance. Loki, the Norse God of mischief
and fire, takes away the source of unlimited sustainable energy. This forces
Fury to assemble various people from different corners of the world. Loki plans to use the cube to gain power over
Earth, using the help of Chitauri, an alien race of not-so-nice people.
The team assembled by Fury is coined as ‘The Avengers’ and
is made up of Steve Rogers aka Captain America, Natasha Romanov aka The Black
Widow, Tony Stark aka Iron Man, Dr. Bruce Banner aka The Hulk, Thor – brother
of Loki and Clint Barton aka Hawkeye.
The characters do have trouble coming together in the beginning.
The clashing of the ego is just the beginning. They seem to have a lot of
dissimilarities. The only thing they have in common is the goal – to save the
world. Their character flaws and personalities come in the way a lot. Loki, the
nemesis uses this to his advantage. By the time they realise how to get along and
work together, half the movie is already over. ‘United they stand, Divided they
fall’ is a wonderful proverb that has been proven to be timeless. Dividing the
problem and not the team is the crux.
The rest of the movie is about how they defeat the common
enemy. The age old moral story about a father teaching his sons to stick
together with a bunch of sticks comes to my head. The movie has brilliant one-liners
and slapstick comedy to lighten up the vigorous action that is required to
defeat the aliens. There is something for everyone.
The movie shows how you can be a superhero and still have
flaws. You can have all the money and technology in the world and yet feel
inadequate. You can be a super confident spy with smooth mind-blowing moves and
yet have a deep dark history. You can be an intelligent scientist with breathtaking
rage issues. You could be born during the world war and have time literally
frozen for you.
The beauty lies in the fact that the seemingly most unlikely
people come together and make what is now famously known as Earth’s Mightiest
Heroes.
What I love about this movie is that nobody is perfect. We
all have trouble accepting who we are and are too busy trying to fit in. The fact
remains that we can be who we are and be accepted as who we are. Now the whole
world need not accept us. A select few will do nicely.
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