Stan Lee

A fascinating look at Lee's life & the creation of Marvel comics. Interesting history & stories about these famous characters that carry the infectious positivity of Lee's. The editing, score, & set design are emotional.

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. A fascinating look at Lee's life & the creation of Marvel comics. Interesting history & stories about these famous characters that carry the infectious positivity of Lee's. The editing, score, & set design are emotional.

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. A fascinating look at Lee's life & the creation of Marvel comics. Interesting history & stories about these famous characters that carry the infectious positivity of Lee's. The editing, score, & set design are emotional.

Stan Lee Is an American Legend. This terrific documentary covers his long, long life and his work at Marvel as well as much of his personal life. His impact on American culture should not be under estimated. His stories have shaped the psych of people of all ages for many decades. Americans have been taught by Stan Lee to believe that good will triumph over evil. We all want to be a Super Hero and Stan Lee makes us believe that we just might, some day, be just that. Stan Lee is a GREAT American and as this documentary clearly shows he is also a great guy. His imagination is unsurpassed. A quick examination of the characters he has created shows that.

The better title would have been stan lee and building marvel comics. It's a mix of animation and actual footage. Even archival film from the bombing of pearl harbor. Stan lee narrates his own story. Of course, he died in 2018, and this didn't come out until 2023. One wonders if he had prepared this in advance, for when he passed. Some interesting tales of events along the way, how he came up with various characters, or why some issues don't carry the stamp of comic book approval. Some controversy over who should have credit for the different parts of the empire. We hear some recordings of interviews with lee and jack kirby. It's a shame that the director didn't have a one on one interview with just jack kirby, or the new owners of marvel, when it got sold. Kirby died in 1994, so it would have had to take place before that! A really professional documentary looks at the subject from all angles, and most of the material told here seems to be from lee's point of view, and mostly told by lee himself. Directed by david gelb, who has been nominated for emmys and grammys. An interesting story, for sure. And pretty good.

The story of Stan Lee as told mostly by Stan Lee. While it is interesting to hear from the subject of a documentary, the film makers themselves should be a little more detached. They do touch upon the idea that Stan Lee may not have come up with this iconic characters himself, but an interview with Jack Kirby is edited in a way that makes Kirby look like he doesn't have much of a case, and he did. The other part of this film is that it really wants to be a happy story, but the end of Stan Lee's life was anything but. He was accused of sexual assualt, and he definitely was the victim of elder abuse. (there was even a trial). Neither of these things were mentioned.

I'm not a professional art critic, but as an ordinary person that only knew Lee by its achievements not by the processes to get there, this documentary gave me a wider and deeper perspective not only about how Lee was a genius in the using of empathy but also in translating the reality around him (especially the youth one) into something amazingly simple and accessible to the mass audience, in a very different and lighter way that institutions and governments do so. To be honest, I've never truly understood why Marcel comics was much more effective then DC get into the heart of all generation, race, origin ranges of people around the world, now I got it.