CaptainMarvel - which hits screens around the world later this week - is making up for lost time, firing girl power on all cylinders.
- which hits screens around the world later this week - is making up for lost time, firing girl power on all cylinders.
An Air Force fighter pilot who is trained to be a member of the alien Kree warriors, Danvers lands in the middle of an intergalactic war with the Skrulls. Of the decision to set the story more than 20 years in the past, Marvel Studios Director Kevin Feige said at the film's premiere in Hollywood,"We wanted Carol to have her origin all to herself."But she is strong in other ways too, and tough enough to hold her own in a universe that doesn't always value women - driving home the feminist message of the movie, co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, which says women have nothing to prove to men.
"And my belief was always that they didn't work not because they were female-led stories - they didn't work because they were not particularly good movies."
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