{"id":6678,"date":"2011-03-09T20:19:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T04:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2011-03-09T20:19:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T04:19:13","slug":"no-capes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2011\/03\/09\/no-capes\/","title":{"rendered":"No Capes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted: <a href=\"http:\/\/honoluluweekly.com\/film\/current-film\/2011\/03\/no-capes\/\">http:\/\/honoluluweekly.com\/film\/current-film\/2011\/03\/no-capes\/<\/a><br \/>\nBy Ryan Senaga<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_32606\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reallifesuperheroesarchive.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/film-no-capes1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32606\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32606\" alt=\"Zimmer (left) and his mighty avengers.\" src=\"http:\/\/reallifesuperheroesarchive.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/film-no-capes1.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zimmer (left) and his mighty avengers.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<em>Superheroes looks at ordinary \u201ccrime fighters.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nSuperheroes \/ Just in time to reality-check us before the gluttonous orgy of comic-book-inspired summer blockbusters is <em>Superheroes<\/em>, an examination of real-life superheroes that walk among us.<br \/>\nThese are people who dress in costume to fight crime. An Albert Einstein quote opens the documentary: \u201cThe world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.\u201d On the flip side of that is Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, who deadpans, \u201cI figure that person could get hurt.\u201d Some of the people who patrol the streets in costumes could very well get into serious trouble.<br \/>\nMr. Xtreme is a slightly overweight shut-in who eventually moves into his van to keep up his lifestyle. At one point he admits, \u201cI don\u2019t really have a social life.\u201d And it\u2019s heartbreaking when he attributes this to his dedication to his \u201cjob.\u201d<br \/>\nThere\u2019s more. Zimmer, an openly gay superhero, dresses in a red fishnet shirt and swishes femininely down a street after midnight to \u201cbait\u201d someone into mugging him. (His crew tails him in hiding to assist with any potential attack.)<br \/>\nMaster Legend takes frequent breaks to refresh himself with an ice-cold can of beer.<br \/>\nWhile telling an anecdote about the life of a superhero, the Vigilante Spider mentions that superheroes kiss their girlfriends goodbye before heading out, just like any normal person would. The interviewer asks, \u201cSo you have a girlfriend?\u201d Vigilante Spider answers, \u201cOh, just metaphorically speaking.\u201d<br \/>\nStill, there is a sense of humanity that paints these folks as genuine Good Samaritans. While they seem like nutballs\u2013and some definitely are\u2013director Michael Barnett makes us feel for these people and what they are trying to do.<br \/>\nZetaman and his girlfriend, Apocalypse Meow, hand out care packages that contain essentials, such as toilet paper, to the homeless in Oregon. And the money for these supplies come from their own pockets.<br \/>\nAt one point, a map of the US is shown with pins marking the states that have real-life superheroes. Hawaii isn\u2019t marked.<br \/>\nWhile it\u2019s nice to know there aren\u2019t fat people in spandex walking the Honolulu sidewalks, perhaps more people with purposeful intentions to do good wouldn\u2019t be such a bad thing for the Islands.<\/p>\n<div>Friends of Film Friday, Doris Duke Theatre, Fri., 3\/11, doors open at 6pm. Q&amp;A with director Michael Barnett and producer Theodore James follows.<\/div>\n<div>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yzOwzrDDI1M<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superheroes looks at ordinary \u201ccrime fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[120,174,1556,1609,1620,1673,1761,2181,2496,2548,2685,2771,2795,2851,3017,3018,3021],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}