![]() Unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, actor Nick Cage accepts a $1 million offer to attend a wealthy fan’s birthday party. NPR's Sophia Boyd produced this story for broadcast.It’s meta, it’s satire, it’s absolutely brilliant as we bring you the Back to the Movies The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent review. "It just feels like it's going to help unlock a key, creatively, for a lot of people in a lot of different ways that we don't even realize yet." "There's so many exciting black creators and creators of color and all genders, and the realization that this kind of diversity really does give rise to more interesting movies," he says. The same is true of director Ryan Coogler's work to bring Afrofuturism to the mainstream with Marvel'sīlack Panther, which is also up for an Oscar on Sunday. ![]() That's been the case in recent box-office success stories, like last year's animated feature winnerĬoco, a celebration of Mexico's Day of the Dead holiday co-directed by Mexican-American Adrian Molina. Ramsey sees a growing tide of greater representation that is injecting new life into old narratives. Hollywood and its longtime struggle with diversity - a struggle that historically, has been most visible on Oscars night. "We really do get e-mails and texts and letters and people saying, 'I saw this with my child and he turned to me or she turned to me and said, 'That looks like me on screen' or 'they're speaking Spanish at home' or 'I could be him.' "Įven before the film's success, Ramsey was part of a growing community of minority filmmakers reshaping "What it seems to mean is greater than I think any of us really anticipated," he says. Into the Spider-Verse- particularly from minority communities and minority children - was more than he could have hoped for. If you can't be part of a myth like that, then what do you have in a culture?" People of color, in particular, he says, "want to be part of the story, want to be part of the myth. "This genre allows people to sort of project themselves onto these heroic figures who struggle with their own difficulties and own insecurities," the director says. "It means a lot for young black and Latino kids to see themselves up on screen in these iconic, heroic, mythic stories," he says. Superhero movies are a perfect vehicle for that conversation, says Ramsey, because superhero characters are avatars for accessing larger cultural ideas that audiences can relate to. Instead, he's turned to the genre as a way to speak to minority communities. "I don't think anybody goes into a Spider-Man movie thinking you're going to win an Oscar," he says. But the director says he didn't get into the superhero genre to sweep awards season. ![]() Into the Spider-Verse has been "surreal," Ramsey says. ![]() "We wanted to put our best foot forward and create something that people would be able to relate to and love," the director says in an interview with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro. So when it came to introducing a new version of the character, the first non-white Spider-Man, Ramsey says it was crucial for the film's creators to get it right. Marvel Comics fans grew up following the original Spider-Man character, Peter Parker. Like Morales, the film's co-director, Peter Ramsey, is making history as the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award in the animated feature category. The first Afro-Latino Spider-Man, Miles Morales, made his big screen debut last year in the animated hit
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