Without ‘Blade,’ there might not be an MCU.
’s big action finale, Michael Keaton mostly stands in place while bad guys jump and kick around him. In the most extreme example, one of the Joker’s goons performs an absurd gymnastics routine, flipping down an entire hallway, then leaps at Batman with a kick. Keaton watches all of this transpire without moving a muscle, then drops the guy with one punch and some kind of Bat-gadget he extends from his hand. Fight over. It might be more accurate to call this an inaction scene.
Keaton’s Bat-costume gave him the illusion of an outlandish comic book physique in exchange for all of his mobility. Snipes, in contrast, needed no help in the muscle department. When he’s stripped down to the waist late in the film, he is absolutely jacked. Huge muscles were standard operating procedure in action movies during the years dominated by Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Van Damme.
Snipes concludes that interview with a prediction. “I think we’re creating a shadow world,” he says, “where the bridge between what is reality and the unreal is very small.” Not only did do exactly that, but that shadow world became the template for nearly every Marvel movie that followed. Wesley Snipes had a goofy way of showing it, but he saw the future.
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