AMBER MATTICE
Staff Writer
One of the comic world’s most controversial, but widely loved, characters will be hitting the big screen this Friday (or tomorrow night at the Dunkirk Movieplex 8 at 7 p.m.). Deadpool, or Wade Winston Wilson, who is known as one of the most profane characters to ever be created, is finally getting his own movie.
Fans of “Deadpool” are excited, but a little apprehensive, for the movie has been butchered in the past, and there is no telling how successful it will be. However this time around the film will star Ryan Reynolds, and people seem to be a little more hopeful.
“I’m excited to see how the character is portrayed, because in the comics there are phases with how Deadpool is portrayed, and so far, it feels like they’re going with the philosophy there was in the 2008 comics,” said freshman animation and illustration major Dan Salazar.
This is a common theme in the anticipation for the movie. Fans have come to realize that everyone involved in making the movie, including the star himself, has really been trying to capture the essence of the character.
“When it comes to superhero movies, they don’t usually veer off of the path of mainstream superheroes, and the fact that a character like Deadpool, who’s not a hero or villain, is getting his own movie — and it’s one that is highly anticipated — kind of speaks to the quality of the film making, and I hope it lives up to that,” said freshman English major Makenzie Smith.
Details in the comics, video games and previous movies are being examined in an attempt to capture the character in the profane and hilarious but also tragic light he was originally written in.
Deadpool is a character that breaks the traditional boundaries of comic book heroes because that’s exactly what he’s not. He is a science experiment turned mercenary, and there’s a lot of bitterness towards the people who nearly ruined his life.
Despite this bitterness, however, Deadpool’s screen time is always riddled with jokes about sex, swearing and speech directed towards the audience or player.
Deadpool is infamous for breaking the fourth wall, the figurate boundary between the comic world and the reader, and it will be interesting to see if the movie captures this.
These aspects of Deadpool’s characters are integral for a successful portrayal, and because of this, fans are a little nervous about how he will be characterized.
“Even the video game they released for him is not suitable for children, and I’m kind of nervous that, in an attempt to build a bigger audience for the movie, they’re going to leave out a part of his character,” said Smith.
According to an article by Brad Reed on BGR, Reynolds and TJ Miller, who plays Deadpool’s best friend in the movie, improvised a lot of the jokes, and some were so raunchy they had to be cut from the final release. Reed stated, “‘Deadpool’ looks like the funniest superhero movie ever released, and it’s certainly going to be the most obscene.”
So, obviously, the movie won’t fall short of humor, and, because Reynold’s is taking the role so seriously, it seems that he is going to give Deadpool the layers that the characters originally had and deserves.
As the release date comes closer and closer, the anticipation is only rising. Fans everywhere are waiting anxiously for Valentine’s Day weekend, so they can spend it the right way by seeing this hilariously profane and wonderfully unique character come to life on the big screen.