Full Video: Why do superhero movies work? || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2023)
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00:00Why people fantasize about superheroes so much?
00:02It is that superman that Friedrich Nietzsche talked of as the end goal of all evolution.
00:11He said we live so that ultimately one day the superman can emerge.
00:16That's how deeply we love the superman.
00:18We exist for the sake of the superman.
00:20Not a superman like spiderman or batman or steelman or whatever.
00:24No no not that kind of superman.
00:26That superman is somebody of the beyond.
00:28Somebody who has conquered the normal human fallibilities.
00:32Somebody who has conquered himself is the superman.
00:35And Nietzsche said it's that superman that entire existence is living for.
00:39So that one day he might be born.
00:41We all love that superman.
00:43But we do not know who is it that we really love.
00:46So instead of that real superman,
00:49we create, draw, imagine caricatures of superman in the form of superhero movies.
00:54And then we fall in love with those movies and those movies become blockbusters.