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The Green Hornet, a Marvel super hero film that has not been recognize as much as Iron Man and Spider-Man. This movie can also be really controversial base on the casts, story plots, and its political theme that has embedded in content. The Green Hornet and his sidekick Kato could be read as Batman and Robin. However, Green Hornet is most likely to be consider as a useless hero since everything was created by Kato. And thus, it is controversial to the audience whether The Green Hornet should be consider as a super hero film. Despite the fact the Green Hornet does nothing helpful to the society, but this movie contains several political aspects that other super hero film has yet accomplished. Currently in the world we live in, several governmental …show more content…

For instance, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Hulk, and Captain America these characters are all white Americans. However, in the Green Hornet, it was a move for Marvel to step forward to cast an Asian celebrity as one of the protagonists. Jay plays as Kato, a Japanese character who is the defender, inventor, and sidekick of Green Hornet. It is something Marvel did differently from other super hero films. This political aspects chase back to 1939, when China and Japan had a bad relationship. Therefore, Kato represents as a non-white and English speaking Asian to be as the major role in the movie. Marvel is known as the studio to manipulate the original character and cast someone who is white and rich. However, this time Jay was selected as the major role. Jay, is a Taiwanese singer who is famous in Asian countries. Besides, the fact Marvel was trying to attract and broaden the audience from America to Asian countries, this is also a political view that Marvel had tried to include several different races and ethnicities in the film to make the film more diverse and embrace equality to the viewers. However, besides the film included an Asian character, the female role in this movie has certainly become a character that is more than lover. In Iron Man, pepper has become a character to help Tony Stark from getting into troubles. Moreover, to become his assistance in the movie. Similarly, in the Green Hornet, Lenore acts as a secretary, but her actions are nothing like a super hero female protagonist in this

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