Thursday, October 28, 2010

Captain Eugenics?


Captain America is a movie about a scrawny boy who wants to fight the evil Nazis who perform evil scientific experiments to create perfect human specimens because some humans are better than others. ...So he lets America do a scientific experiment on him to make him a perfect human specimen. Am I missing something here? Is there no cognitive dissonance in this?

“The interesting thing about this character is that he’s an everyman who in the course of a few minutes become a perfect human specimen." - Captain America Director Joe Johnston

3 comments:

Halcyon said...

It could be partly Superman logic:

Show everybody what the "perfect human specimen" should look like as compared to the efforts by the Nazis.

D said...

I always thought part of the defining aspect of Captain America's character WAS this very cognitive dissonance. Of course, he experiences it a little late...

Joshua Andrew Smith said...

Jon - lame.

D - perhaps.