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8 HAWAI‘I ISLAND MIDWEEK JULY 28, 2021
Rotten
‘Widow’ Wins
BY CHRIS MCKINNEY
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I’ve often felt like when it comes to The Aveng- ers, Marvel Studios un- derstandably struggles with what to do with their least powerful superheroes, espe- cially once the conflicts turn cosmic. Hawkeye? Throw in a wife and a bunch of kids and make him a family man. Nick Fury? Let him die not once, but twice, and allow him to fade away for a few films. The toughest for Marvel to deal with has been Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow. Eye candy? Leader? Diplo- mat? Hulk’s Prozac? Nothing really stuck.
But this is Scarlett Johans- son we’ re talking about, and you can’t squander someone with this much star power be- fore completely ending Mar- vel Cinematic Universe Phase Three. The trick that MCU has
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Florence Pugh poses for photographers upon arrival at a fan event for the film Black Widow in London last month. mo
AP PHOTO/SCOTT GARFITT
been using a lot lately is fram- ing narratives into familiar subgenres. Its latest release, Black Widow, Johansson’s first and only standalone Mar- vel film, uses the Russian su- per spy trope. We’ve seen this one a number of times over
recent years in Atomic Blonde, Salt, and Red Sparrow. Black Widow, however, scrubs away the heightened sexuality and replaces it with girl power, which is great, but someone should inform Hollywood that while there’s still tension
ho between the United States and ha Russia, the Cold War ended 30 en
years ago.
Director Martin Scorsese
once bemoaned the MCU is more theme park than film,
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