{"id":31725,"date":"2019-08-09T17:02:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T21:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=31725"},"modified":"2019-08-09T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T21:05:09","slug":"5-more-great-minority-movie-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/09\/5-more-great-minority-movie-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"5 More Great Minority Movie Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As we\u2019ve learned over the last few years, representation means a lot and Hollywood is finally catching on to that fact. Minorities and People of Color are no longer gangsters, criminals and thugs. They\u2019re now the everyman hero, the good guys, and yes, even the blockbuster superheroes. With \u201cDora and the Lost City of Gold\u201d and \u201cHobbs and Shaw\u201d out in theaters now, I thought it\u2019d be a great time to continue the list of Great Minority Movie Heroes.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Rafael Olvera \u2013 The Curse of La Llorona
\n<\/strong>Whether you liked \u201cThe Curse of La Llorona\u201d or not, there\u2019s no doubt that it was a solid spin off with a great latinx hero in the form of Rafael Olvera. Olvera is very much in the league of the Warrens in that he\u2019s a believer of the faith but an ex-priest. With mom Anna has an impossible time warding off and fighting La Llorona, Rafael jumps in to combat the powerful and clever demon. With the help of his faith and his knowledge of magic, he\u2019s able to prove quite a match for the entity and in the end helps the family live to see another day. I hope he returns to the “Conjuring” movie series very soon, I think he deserves his own movie.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dave and Luis \u2013 Ant-Man, Ant-Man & The Wasp
\n<\/strong>Dave and Luis started out as convicts that spent most of their time trying to make ends meet by committing half baked heists. Whether by fate or not, Dave and Luis eventually become two of the best underdog heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While everyone with super powers and high tech machinery are off fighting tyrants, Dave and Luis are there doing the smaller work and helping out in ways they\u2019re not yet aware of. What\u2019s better is Luis realizes in the end of \u201cAnt-Man\u201d that he\u2019s now a hero. He loves it and he embraces it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Captain Steven Hiller \u2013 Independence Day
\n<\/strong>Steven Hiller is one of the banner heroes of \u201cIndependence Day\u201d who managed to add a lot to the hero roster and took so much when he failed to show up in the sequel. Not that anything would have saved that film, but I digress. Steven Hiller is a pilot with dreams of getting in to NASA who has to take on an armada of aliens, and is lucky enough to survive a skirmish with one. By luck he comes in contact with the president and is allowed to infiltrate the mother ship thanks to his help. Hiller is an underdog hero worth rooting for and cuts the aliens off at every path with his tough as nails attitude and cunning.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Cortez Clan \u2013 Spy Kids Movie Series
\n<\/strong>The \u201cSpy Kids\u201d features a prominently Hispanic clan of spies and adventurers all of whom manage to save the world time and time again. It\u2019s too bad there wasn\u2019t too much opportunities for spin off or whatnot, as Robert Rodriguez\u2019s series still has some potential. The Cortez Clan are a lovable and admirable group of crime fighting secret agents, all of whom step up to defend mankind when no one else has the guts to. It\u2019s tough to dislike any character here as they\u2019re all so heroic, courageous and fun to root for.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Zorro \u2013 The Zorro Series
\n<\/strong>Zorro has been a great and almost immortal big screen hero since the silent film era and has been played by some of the biggest actors of their generation. We\u2019re due another reboot of the Zorro legend, but it\u2019s tough to find a bad Zorro movie. One of the many influences of Batman, Zorro is Don Diego De La Vega, an aristocrat who fights crime with his trusty horse and fencing skills fighting corruption in his town and bringing down crooked politicians and criminals. \u201cThe Mask of Zorro\u201d from 1998 is one of m favorite iterations of the character, as we\u2019re given a gem of a revenge tale, that\u2019s also a raucous adventure romance that was tough to top. I hope Zorro returns to the big screen again very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we\u2019ve learned over the last few years, representation means a lot and Hollywood is finally catching on to that fact. Minorities and People of Color are no longer gangsters, criminals and thugs. They\u2019re now the everyman hero, the good guys, and yes, even the blockbuster superheroes. With \u201cDora and the Lost City of Gold\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58,64,477,2294,906,1087,1190,1222],"class_list":["post-31725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-list-junkies","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-horror","tag-pulp-heroes","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller","tag-will-smith","tag-zorro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31735,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31725\/revisions\/31735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}