Meteor Man

Marla Gibbs and Robert Guillaume gave spirited performances as proud parents with renewed hope for the neighborhood and even the world.

Seeing my hometown and seeing a black hero was an event. We needed to see images of people who looked like us. It was important and it was groundbreaking. Jefferson gets treated at a post-segregation, pre- Shonda Rhimes hospital full of black doctors. The idea to dress the villains in platinum blonde dyed hair wearing coordinated black and gold outfits was inspired.

Robert Townsend’s 'The Meteor Man' Is A Valuable Outlier in the Superhero Genre

Menacing though they may be, they come off not unlike a boy band. Their smooth attire also conveys the deeper message that yes, sometimes villains are seductive and are sexier and slicker than the good guys but that regardless, they are still the enemy. There is also Frank Gorsham, who played the Riddler in the original Batman series, which Townsend loved as a child.

The Meteor Man also skillfully avoids the misogyny so rampant in popular superhero films. Professor Gayle points to Blade as an example.

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From Gibbs as his mother, to Nancy Wilson as the high school principal, Jenifer Lewis as concerned and annoyed parent, Lela Rochon as the attractive yet assertive nurse, Marilyn Coleman as his elderly landlady and a community leader, or Stacy his pretty co-worker with a passion for her job, all are given agency and are written as valuable as human beings. It is more than can be said about many popular superhero films and Townsend should be given credit for that.

The Meteor Man is a film with faults as well. A feature of many black superhero stories that gives us a view of just how ingrained is the white supremacist mindset is that they tend to be very, very local. There are few white superheroes who see themselves as simply protecting their own neighborhood. Black superheroes seem bound to their neighborhoods or at least black neighborhoods unless their function is to support the agenda of a white superhero.

In the case of Black Panther, he is bound by a country inhabited by those who are racially just like him. Gayles agrees and sees the same tendency in The Meteor Man.

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Black Masculinities in Comic Books , it is clear that in the earliest African-American superheroes engage street-level villains while other superheroes are afforded the privilege of fighting villains that pose an existential threat to the universe itself. There is always the danger that in making room for the message, the story gets lost or confused, or is rendered inadequately. This may be partially the reason for some of the weaknesses in The Meteor Man. There is no question the movie would have benefitted from using some of its many high profile stars in a more substantive way or just not using them at all.

Robert Townsend’s 'The Meteor Man' Is A Valuable Outlier in the Superhero Genre

There are appearances by James Earl Jones and singer Luther Vandross but they add virtually nothing to the story. The superhero costume choice is a bit puzzling. In fact, there is a stream of prototypes. There are soft detractors of black superhero films as a whole like James Pappas who is Associate Professor of Transnational Studies at University at Buffalo. What we need is exposure to real people with real stories.

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A simpleton inventor becomes a superhero with a bulletproof costume and a low budget. Love Don't Cost a Thing Made in America Madea's Witness Protection House Party 2 Meet the Blacks Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins Martin Lawrence, Louis C. House Party 3 Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Reed, Jeff's Mother Eddie Griffin Earnest Moses Roy Fegan Walker, Reed's Landlady Don Cheadle Marvin Big Daddy Kane Byers the Mobster Sinbad Malik, Stacy's Boyfriend Nancy Wilson Edit Storyline One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor.

He's coming to save the world, one neighborhood at a time. Edit Did You Know? Goofs While Jeff is fighting Simon, the character Goldilocks Don Cheadle can be seen goofing around, as if he's coming out of his character. Quotes [ Jefferson Reed a.

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The Meteor Man walks into the community center where most of the residents are having a meeting. They have decided to vote as whether or not he should leave the neighborhood after failing to protect them from the neighborhood gang, The Golden Lords, earlier that day ] Jefferson Reed: