Black Widow arrived on time, and too late

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It’s appropriate and that’s ironic Black window it happens in the past. Chronologically, at MCU, the story of the film takes place after the events Captain America: Civil War, When the Avengers made their way. But chronologically, in the real world, it arrives in 2021, more than a year after the planned release (thank you, Covid), and about five years after it was supposed to be done.

Black Widow (aka Natasha Romanoff, played by Scarlett Johansson) has been the only female hero in the Avengers film for years. Iron Man 2. Since his arrival, Thor, Captain America and Spider-Man have made two stand-alone films. Doctor Strange and the Black Panthers each got it; so did the Marvel captain, beating Natasha, who got her own film as the first female Marvel superhero. Now, his character is dead Avengers: Endgame, Black Widow finally has a movie to call his own. It’s offensive — too late.

Except, it’s not. There’s no denying that Johansson’s character was supposed to be a solo film a long time ago. (In a way, he got it almost in 2018 Red beak, except — with all due respect to Jennifer Lawrence — it was a terrific film.) There’s no way to deny whether or not people would pay for seeing a female in many of those years. an action-packed film, which is why you have to respect Jennifer Lawrence—Hungry games it was a big factor in changing all that franchise. Other Marvel movies were like that too Black Panther. “I think it was a hope that we wanted to see white men, and if they weren’t white men, we wouldn’t come.” WidowDirector of Cate Shortland, he recently told her Los Angeles Times. Today, the door is open Black window dominate — and make it bolder than it could have been in 2015.

As it stands, the film seems ready for that. In this one we’re writing, it’s the latest from Marvel was expected this weekend opens in North America to bring in between $ 80 million and $ 90 million –beating by hand $ 70 million F9 just a couple of weeks ago, and then setting a box office record for published films Covid-19 locks.

Beyond the studios that wake up to the box office potential of women-directed films, something else happened at the time fans were waiting in Black Widow to get their film: #MeToo. In 2017, after massive research New York and The New York Times In allegations of sexual misconduct against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, women around the world began talking about their experiences with bullying and assault. The movement created an atmosphere where even an ordinary Marvel film could discuss issues such as forced sterilization and manipulation of women. After all, Natasha Romanoff was a girl who was once a murderer by a Soviet organization that exploited a young man. The first discussions about the film began immediately after Weinstein broke the story, and Johansson started Yahoo! Entertainment recently said, “you can’t miss the opportunity to make a comparison between these two things.” Shortland went one step further, saying YEARS, “We could say something else that could have happened; we could make jokes about women’s trauma and control of women’s bodies. ”