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Borrowing Elements In The Movie: Guardians Of The Galaxy

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Guardians of the galaxy starts off on Earth in the year 1988. Shortly after the death of his mother, young Peter Quill gets abducted by an alien space craft and thus enters Director James Gunn’s version of a marvel sci-fi action movie. Sci-fi films have been around since 1902 and became popular since then. With so much history in film, surely it could be said that any new movie is just borrowing elements from other films. In this essay, I will explore key movie concepts which have been repeated from similar films and explain how this marvel movie differs from others. I will also show how the marvel comics depicted the main characters as opposed to how the film changed them.
Guardians of the galaxy follows a group of five who try to save the …show more content…

The movie also shows that Peter’s mother calls him star lord (see figure 3 for an image of Peter Quill). There is also a lot of mystery surrounding Peter’s father. To most it would seem as if he is just another dead-beat father who abandoned his family although Peter’s mother says on her death bed, “he was an angel composed of pure light”. This could hint to either the fact that he is pure at heart of that he literally comes from the sky. The marvel comic books tell a different story than what is depicted in the movie. For starters, it is well known that Peters father came from an alien race called the Spatori (R. Bricken, 2014). Peter Quills mother was killed by two aliens in the comics. The aliens who had killed her were seeking to wipe out the Spatori bloodline of which Peter is half. In the Marvel comic books, Peter was not kidnapped by aliens in his youth but had become an astronaut and thus the star lord (A.Rutt, …show more content…

She sports green skin and red hair as seen in figure 9 (see figure 9). She was raised by Thanos both in the film and in the Marvel comic books. Unlike her “sister” Nebula, Gomora is opposed to Thanos’ plan to destroy the universe. In the Marvel comic books for her character, it is shown that Thanos had cybernetic enhancements made to Gamora and Nebula, which explains their strength (R. Bricken, 2014)
Thanos is depicted as the ultimate villain who is eager to destroy the universe see figure 10). His motivation as to why he wishes to do this is a mystery. The Marvel comic book universe shows that he is seeking to become worthy of the Marvel personification of death. To do this he seeks to destroy life (A. Riesman, 2014).
Guardians of the galaxy boasts a team of five misfits who could also be described as anti-heroes. All of the guardians are either thieves, bounty hunters or assassins. This kind of team can also be seen in the Marvel film The Avengers (see figure 11) (TV tropes,

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