Schwartz Response

In David Schwartz’s article, we are informed of how the future of television is changing and in a positive way for audiences.

Link: In this link, we are shown a picture of the main poster of the marvel film, Avengers: Infinity War. I’m almost positive that everyone here has seen the film so you will know what I’m talking about in this response.

Pull: In Schwartz’s article, he quotes, “Fans of “The Lord of the Rings” books and movies will recognize the idea of a team of characters with different backgrounds, abilities and motivations, all trying to work together toward a goal. The adventure is not just in whether they achieve the task, but the encounters, mishaps and even battles that happen along the way. “

Response: The characters in the photo of Avengers:Infinity War have all made their own independent decisions that ultimately led to them teaming up for their final battle against Thanos. Every character in the picture has their own background and most of them even have their own movies to go more into detail on them. As the MCU progresses, these characters eventually come together to fight for the common goal which was to kill Thanos and save the universe. But what makes this movie so good is the journey it took for all those characters to get to this. The conflicts they went through, the losses they encountered, the battles they fought in, all helped the audience better engage into their universe. The main films that I believe showed all of this were in The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Captain America: Civil War. And from these films, we, as viewers, could feel their pain, their happiness, and struggles that they went through and having all of them team up for Infinity War for one last time really allowed us to engage more actively throughout the film. I remember watching it in the theatre with my friends, and there were people literally standing up and shouting, cheering on these heroes as they continued to fuck up Thanos’ crew. This all relates to the quote that I pulled because it is literally respecting what Schwartz is saying about how a team of characters can be used to create a successful media text that allows its audiences to better engage with them. It’s not about the whether the team achieved their goal, but the journey that the they went through that allowed us to relate and interact with what our heroes were going through in the moments coming up to the final showdown with Thanos.