Hulk Goes Greener?
Shouldn’t have polluted The Environment.
From the man behind the green beast and mild-mannered alter ego Bruce Banner:
Noting that he’d like to use his art and fame to spread a more eco-friendly message, [actor Mark Ruffalo] praised the positive potential in using his stardom as a platform to spread the word.
“As artists we have an ability to reach a lot of people in a deep way, and we have a responsibility,” he said. “What we have to do as storytellers is to take science and make it relatable.
“I think we have to tell the story of the positive and what we’re going to try to do. Give them alternatives but don’t make it a polemic,” he intoned.1
This is the quickest way possible to make another standalone Incredible Hulk film dull as dirt.
One can easily claim to want to make a great story with any “polemic” — i.e., religious — Messages ranked second. Yet if Ruffalo thinks a movie like that could work, I have a whole collection of “Story-First” Inspirational Faith-Based Wholesome movies to sell him.
- Mark Ruffalo would like to see an eco Hulk movie, Jan. 17, 2014, Rosie Fletcher, TotalFilm.com. ↩
I agree with the comment on the linked article. A Swamp Thing movie would be better suited to the task of that if he wanted to do it. Technically though they missed the chance when they did the Avengers: in the source material The Ultimates, Thor actually was a bit of an eco-terrorist.
I’m glad they stayed away from the darker, more anti-heroic versions of the characters.
If this happens, it will be the Marvel Comics’ version of the movie flop that was Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Said movie was little more than a vehicle for Christopher Reeve’s (God rest his soul) nuclear freeze message.
I forget who I’m stealing this from but, “there’s a name for people who can make an environmental film not annoying, and that name is Hayao Miyazaki.”
Maybe they could have Banner touring the world with Al Gore” to deliver the “Inconvenient Truth” lectures? The Hulk could then save drowning Polar Bears and push glaciers back to their original position, and fight those wicked green-house gases…