Ghost Rider Speech

“Look into my eyes. Your soul is stained by the blood of the innocent. Feel their pain.”
Good morning Mrs Macleod and class. Today I will be talking about the evolution of Ghost Rider. Ghost rider has gone through many forms and human hosts, but what links them all together is their hunger for revenge, especially for those who can’t obtain it themselves.
The concept of the Ghost Rider was first created in 1972 by Ray Thomas, Gary Friedrich, and Mike Ploog, but was under the name ‘Phantom Rider’, whose host was a western grave digger called Carter Slade. Slade features in the first Ghost Rider live action film, but only as a mentor and guide to Johnny Blaze. Slade is played by actor Sam Eliot. His costume and persona is similar to that

He is unable to control when he can transform, as it happens when he is in the presence of evil, but he still has his host’s feelings and can somewhat control who he does what to. In order to fulfil his thirst for revenge; he has criminals look into his eyes, where they will see and feel all the horrors and pain they’ve caused. This move is called the penance stare, which actually belonged to another ghost rider host called Danny Ketch, but was used in the film. The move ends in the criminal’s eyes being turned to hardened ash.
In the second film, ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of vengeance’, quite a bit of time has passed and Blaze is finding it much harder to control how he transforms, even when he tries very hard. The fact that Blaze has aged can easily be seen as in the first film his flaming skull is white, but in the second film his skull is black, giving him burnt out look. He also has a large cloud of black smoke following him

He then turned into to spirit of vengeance, which is what possesses Blaze and turns him into the Ghost Rider.
The second film sees one of the biggest changes in the ghost rider franchise. At the beginning of the film we learn that Blaze is willing to do anything to get rid of the curse, which is the spirit of vengeance possessing him, that is ruining his life and making him miserable. Then along comes a wine-loving French priest called Moreau who makes a deal with Blaze that will remove the curse. Moreau tells Blaze about the spirit of justice and how the ghost rider came to be.
Blaze finally gets his powers removed, but then finds out that he does in fact need them and is repossessed by the spirit. At the end of the film Blaze can feel the Angel in him and in order to save a child he really cares about he has to concentrate and reach deep into his soul to find him. He then changes into the Angel of Justice and saves the boy. The Ghost rider now has a Blue flame around him with a white skull, showing how the Angel essentially revived