The film Hero is a great example of how the media will build up a normal guy that meets a certain criteria into a celebrity. In the movie, John Bubber is a Vietnam War veteran who has taken credit for saving the lives of many people that have been involved in a plane crash. The fact that Bubber could be cleaned up, have makeup put on him, and had a Vietnam War background helped the media create a celebrity out of this man. Anyone that has some kind of background involving risking their lives will always been a positive factor if someone is trying to become a star over night by doing good. In the movie, the media and masses are portrayed very realistically.
American’s love a hero and the movie shows that off pretty well.
The minute someone is blown up on TV and all you see is this persons face, I’d say that you’ve got about eighty percent of the American population on the hero’s side in a matter of a day. The other ten percent are the one’s who realize that stuff like that happens all the time and just because this one guy can be thrown into the spot light doesn’t mean he’s a god. Because let’s face it, if everyone who saved lives and risked their own life was created into a god like figure in the media, there would be a lot of gods.
2 comments:
Yeah, I agree on the fact that the movie shows how the media is in a realistic way...emphasizing how the hero is viewed in American society. I believe it depends on how the media turns that person into, even though that person doesn't want to be in the spotlight or at least doesn't want to be turned into a STAR but just be shown how he rescued a certain amount of people which is really admiring!
i didnt like the fact that the media has to control everything, but, soceity gets to judge who is the hero and who isn't, not the media.
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