The document discusses the key elements that make up a superhero film, including the hero with superhuman traits or unique weapons who has good morals, a villain with possible superpowers who opposes the hero, and a crisis for the hero to solve. It provides a brief history of superhero comics being adapted to film starting in the 1940s. The first directors of superhero movies from the 1920s are named, and the document notes superhero films then had less editing and CGI compared to modern superhero movies.

2. WHAT MAKES UP A SUPERHERO
FILM?• THE HERO-
• superhuman traits and/or unique weapons
• has good morals
• THE VILLIAN-
• may have superhuman traits
• goes against the hero
• A CRISIS-
• a problem that the hero has to fix

3. THE HISTORY
• First made as comic books, Superheroes were adapted to
Films
• Some of the first Super Heroes were…
CAPTAIN MARVEL (1941)
Shazam!
Batman (1943)
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4. THE FIRST DIRECTORS
• 1920 FRED NIBLO/ THEODORE REED
• Directed Zorro (The first recorded American Super hero movie)

5. SUPER HERO MOVIES THEN
 Had less editing and more acting
SUPER HERO MOVIES NOW
 They have a lot of CGI to make the actors look
 much more Super Human

6. My Genre Movies