Aside from the ongoing 10th Philippine International Pyromusical Competition, the SM City-Clark Management kicked-off March with the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) offering featuring a heroine this time and her origin, which, as any Marvel fan know and have figured out by now, will definitively be tied up with the last, and stirring, Avengers: Infinity War.
On March 5, the SM Clark IMax Theater held the advanced screening of Captain Marvel, a movie featuring the history of Carol Danvers and how she became to be known as the super heroine Captain Marvel, one of the most powerful heroes in the universe.
The showing of the movie, released on March 6, is fitting on the part of the SM management as March is known in the Philippines as Women’s Month and comes a few days before the celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8.
Aside from Captain Marvel being a woman, the movie becomes more significant to the celebration Women’s Month because one of the directors also happens to be a woman, Anna Boden, who also wrote the screenplay along with another woman, Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Both Boden and Robertson-Dworet also co-wrote the story with two other women in a woman-dominated group of five people, the other being Boden’s co-director Ryan Fleck.
The music for the movie was also done by a woman, Pinar Toprak, award-winning Turkish-American composer for film, television and video games. She has won two International Film Music Critics Association Awards.
And a movie about a woman superhero film would not be complete with a soundtrack that features tracks performed by women. Set in the year 1995, the music used for the soundtrack brought back some memories of the year, like music always does, with songs like Celebrity Skin by the band Hole fronted by Courtney Love, wife of the late grunge musician Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist of Nirvana, who also lent the song Come as You Are to the soundtrack; Beck with I’m So Free; TLC lending Waterfalls; and the song Just a Girl by the band No Doubt.
Women also dominated the whole film as it featured a woman alien character, the Kree sniper Minn-Erva who, along with Danvers, is one of two members of Starforce, a elite group of Kree warriors to which Danvers, known as Vers, was earlier affiliated; Danvers’ friend Maria Rambeau and her daughter Monica; and, Dr. Wendy Lawson who was among the characters that play a major role in the movie. There are also the alien Skrull women.
The movie shows where many of the things and names in the Marvel Cinematic Universe came to be, which include, among others, where the name Avengers came from; how the device resembling a pager that Nick Fury used at the end of Infinity War came to be; and how Nick Fury lost his eye.
Comedy, a staple in Marvel movies, also has its moments in the movie.
Now husbands take your loving wives to watch Captain Marvel. Enough of the machismo and male egos that dominated the first of a series of Marvel movies and lend a woman’s touch to a superhero movie. They will appreciate it because they are, after all, Captain Marvels in their own right.
Captain Marvel, the 21st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was released in the Philippines on March 6 and is now showing in all SM malls in the country.
A MARVEL-ous Women’s Month celebration indeed!
How’s that for a celebration of the month dedicated to women?
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I’m sure I am not the only one that has seen this.
I just do not understand why or how our money or currency, be it coins or paper bills, get dirty. I’m wondering how this happens or why it has to happen.
Do the people willingly subject the currency to abuse? Like I have seen coins with some stuff stuck to it like gum or some kind of dirt, and paper bills that are soiled and as thin, soft and silky as toilet paper as if these were picked from the ground. So I can understand why people at the receiving end these bills as payment refuse these bills and coins.
This is not the worst of it. Some coins are even bent or damaged aside from scratched and mangled while paper bills are either torn or faded and also mangled in some instances.
Is it the way we handle, or mishandle, the currency?
On some trips abroad, I’ve seen the way other nationalities in other countries take care of their currency, how clean and neat the currency is. And I envy them.
We could take care of our currency like we respect our, for instance, flag, because it is still representative of us being our national currency. However, the Filipino psyche does not seem to have respect for anything Filipino anymore. Like the person our friend Ambassador Elmer Cato had arrested for not standing to show respect for the National Anthem in a movie house.
If the people in general cannot take care of their money properly, which is the God of some, how can we respect our fellowmen?
Maybe a law making the mangling of the national currency an offense could help us take care of our money better. However, that seems ridiculous. But on the other hand, ridiculous measures have been passed by before by government officials and legislators so I don’t see this as being any different.
But what makes this even more ridiculous is the fact that we might need a law for such a small and simple task as handling our currency.
Filipinos want change. Then the change should start with ourselves.
Think about it.