Jonathan Majors’ Favorite Superhero Movie Isn’t From Marvel | Popgen Tech

Despite being one of Marvel’s next big villains, Jonathan Majors believes The Dark Knight is one of the greatest films ever made.

By Michileen Martin | Published 6 minutes ago

Jonathan Majors may play Marvel’s next big supervillain, but when Variety invited him to submit an essay to its 100 Greatest Movies of All Time series, he didn’t write about Iron Man o Logan. Instead, Jonathan Majors shared the experience of seeing The Dark Knight when he was 18 years old. Painting a beautiful picture of his first viewing of the middle chapter of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, Majors said the film showed him “a beauty and complexity of humanity hitherto unseen in cinema and dare I say me in my own existence.”

According to the essay, it was with his girlfriend at the time and his “very, very cool father” that Jonathan Majors got his first look at The Dark Knight on a midnight show in Dallas, Texas. He wrote that he was “shocked” by what he saw on the big screen and that he “sat in the theater long after the credits” considering what he took in.

“The Dark Knight is one of those rare films that entertains on the highest cinematic rung while simultaneously challenging its audience with every frame to reach higher in their own knowledge and social knowledge, teasing our retinas with color palettes and patterns that prescribe of meaning, and provokes debate in our imaginations. and the collective subconscious.”

-Jonathan Majors on The Dark Knight

Jonathan Majors reveals that Christopher Nolan’s hero and villain The Dark Knight are two sides of the proverbial coin. He said that “the eyes of Christian Bale’s Batman and Ledger’s Joker are painted in parallel… as if these two men… saw the same things and perhaps saw them in the same way?” He argues that the film conveys the “irreversible truth” that “[l]ife and humans are very complex and evolving.”

Throughout his essay, it is clear that Jonathan Majors was deeply affected by The Dark Knight, and it’s hard to imagine any colleagues from Marvel or DC movies objecting. At least in terms of the movies, the so-called rivalry between the two superhero narratives has always been more present among the fans than the filmmakers or artists. It’s as if stars like JK Simmons, Michael Keaton, Willem Dafoe, Zachary Levi, Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Christian Bale, and others didn’t appear in comic book adaptations from the same iconic companies.

Next years Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is not expected to be of the same caliber as the film The Dark Knight, but that didn’t stop fans from getting excited for Jonathan Majors’ big screen debut as Marvel’s Kang the Conqueror. He sort-of-didn’t-really-play the villain — or a version of him — in Season 1 of Disney+’s Loki, referred to as He Who Remains. According to what he says in the Season 1 finale, the villain he plays Ant-Man and The Wasp is one of the many Multiversal variants of Loki character.