Chosen Film

Deadpool

The reason why I have chosen the film Deadpool is because it is the first film in Marvel's history to be rated R and this could create a large debate on whether this move to carry out such rated films is good for the future of the company and to the audience. As we know, Marvel Studio's core target audience is kids. The second audience is nostalgic viewers who grew up with the on screen adaptation of the character such as Spiderman or Ironman. Since the test footage for Deadpool leaked all over the internet in 2014, people have been demanding the film to be rated R, similar to its comicbook adaptation. Majority of those who demanded the R rated movie were none other than the older audience, and Marvel have always supported and aimed their products at the younger demographic. Making such film as a Marvel property can appose as a risk to Marvel as they have gotten a huge track record of successful Superhero films which have been released in the last 10 years and they don't want to ruin that reputation by submitting a film that doesn't deft Marvel Studio's. However, the film distributor- 20th Century Fox had seen light in this debate and took the risk in to making this 'test footage' into an actual film. Little did they know, that this would be the most successful R rated movie to date and has grossed the most amount of revenue that 20th Century Fox have ever revived compared to their past films.

I want to debate whether or not, Marvel or any other youth dominant institution should go about making R rated movies for the sake of delivering films to a more adult audience which Deadpool has successfully done.