{"id":1141912,"date":"2021-12-22T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141912"},"modified":"2021-12-22T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:04:50","slug":"why-spider-man-no-way-home-succeeded-where-other-recent-marvel-releases-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-spider-man-no-way-home-succeeded-where-other-recent-marvel-releases-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018Spider-Man: No Way Home\u2019 Succeeded Where Other Recent Marvel Releases Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-spider-man-no-way-home-succeeded-where-other-recent-marvel-releases-failed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141912&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Before last weekend, there was little doubt that the post-Avengers phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was struggling.<\/p>\n<p>On the domestic front, films released in the last two years like \u201cBlack Widow\u201d and \u201cShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\u201d made headlines for topping the box office or breaking records, but such reports came with an asterisk. They were breaking <em>pandemic<\/em> records.&nbsp; Meaning they topped the box office as measured against the last two years\u2019 worth of films. Hardly worth crowing about. Stacked up against all-time records, these films barely registered a blip (pun intended) on the earnings radar.<\/p>\n<p>Then October brought \u201cEternals,\u201d widely promoted as the future of the MCU\u2019s Phase Four (that is, the stage of the franchise following the original Avengers lineup). Stars of that film like Salma Hayek and Gemma Chan made <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/eternals-has-most-diverse-cast-ever-and-is-huge-step-forward-for-film-says-salma-hayek-12459569\">interview rounds<\/a> praising it for having the most \u201cinclusive,\u201d \u201cdiverse\u201d cast ever.<\/p>\n<p>The movie also offered the increased LGBT representation that Marvel head Kevin Feige had long been promising with the franchise\u2019s first gay superhero, Phastos, who shared a lengthy kiss with a same-sex partner.<\/p>\n<p>Overtly marketed as evidence of the MCU\u2019s progressive evolution, Feige told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1450280787446681602?s=20\">Variety<\/a> that it was \u201cpast time\u201d for Marvel to feature more LGBT characters and Phastos was \u201cjust the start.\u201d The result: \u201cEternals\u201d was one of only two bona fide flops in the studio\u2019s history (the other being Ed Norton\u2019s 2008 version of \u201cThe Hulk\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Fans had even started to sour on the Disney+ streaming series. As Feige led the charge in championing Loki\u2019s supposed genderfluidity and Falcon\u2019s retconned feelings of BLM-style hostility toward the country he once served, audiences began <a href=\"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/tv\/loki-reportedly-suffers-big-viewership-drop-episodes-1-3\/\">tuning<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-captain-america-says-to-expect-more-social-justice-from-marvel\">out<\/a>. The latest release, Hawkeye, attained the dubious honor of <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/hawkeye-premiere-rating-lowest-mcu-live-action-compared\/\">lowest-ranking<\/a> MCU to debut on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>As studios are wont to do, Marvel and its parent company, Disney, blamed fans\u2019 cooling interest on anything and everything but their decision to push woke agendas in their products. It was the result of new releasing models, they claimed, or bad timing or superhero exhaustion. But mostly they and the media insisted it was simply the new reality of Covid. No movie could expect to put up pre-pandemic numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Then came \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its opening weekend, the film didn\u2019t just break pre-pandemic records, it decimated them, scoring the second-highest domestic opening of all-time, just behind 2019\u2019s \u201cAvengers: End Game.\u201d In just three days, it brought in more money than any other Covid-era film has in its entire theatrical run.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, \u201cNo Way Home\u2019s\u201d performance has been arguably even more impressive, with the third highest debut in history, behind the last two Avengers movies. And it did it <em>without China<\/em>, the world\u2019s largest film market. Both the Avengers releases had the advantage of a huge number of Chinese dollars in their totals.<\/p>\n<p>So clearly, the idea that post-Covid Marvel can\u2019t compete due to virus-averse audiences is a myth. The question is, why has Spidey succeeded where all the other recent cinematic superheroes have failed? No doubt, the movie boasts a number of streams of appeal, including the social media popularity of stars Tom Holland and Zendaya, as well as a genuinely inventive, fan-servicing plot line. But there\u2019s one factor you can\u2019t overlook but probably won\u2019t hear much about in mainstream box office analysis: That is, f you don\u2019t go woke, you not only don\u2019t go broke, you stand to rake in piles and piles of cash.<\/p>\n<p>Here are all the ways No Way Home bucked the woke MCU trend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It Doesn\u2019t Try to Fundamentally Alter Spidey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read their chat boards and you\u2019ll learn just how weary faithful Marvel fans have grown in the last few years of race-, gender-, and sexuality-swapping with major characters for no better reason than so Marvel and Disney executives can brag that they\u2019ve done it.<\/p>\n<p>When significant changes are made with an integral backstory to explain them, as in the case of Miles Morales\u2019 version of Spider-Man and Sam Wilson\u2019s turn as Captain America, audiences seem to have no problem with it. But do it purely for the virtue signaling, as in the case of the female Ajak in Eternals and the \u201cqueer\u201d Loki, and it grates.<\/p>\n<p>Spider-Man avoids this problem on every front. If you grew up as a Spider-Man fan, \u201cNo Way Home\u201d takes great care to protect and celebrate the hero you knew as a child. He doesn\u2019t suddenly develop confusing feelings for his friend Ned or discover some new commitment to battling climate change. He\u2019s the same Peter Parker we\u2019ve always loved in a new story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind if, Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian or anything else, that he stay that way,\u201d Stan Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2015\/jun\/23\/stan-lee-spider-man-should-stay-white-and-straight#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20wouldn&#039;t%20mind%2C,any%20reason%20to%20change%20that.%E2%80%9D\">said<\/a> of his creation in 2015, \u201cBut we originally made him white. I don\u2019t see any reason to change that. It has nothing to do with being anti-gay, or anti-black, or anti-Latino,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before last weekend, there was little doubt that the post-Avengers phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was struggling. On the domestic front, films released in the last two years like \u201cBlack Widow\u201d and \u201cShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\u201d made headlines for topping the box office or breaking records, but such reports &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}