bLOG #9

blog 9 hero
Being consider hero is easy, but it is difficult to be hero all the time. Lots of people once accept you as a hero they expect some heroic act from you. You cannot turn to be a bad guy after. I think to be a hero requires guts, kindness, selfishness, love and knowing of human beings’ weakness. I don’t consider firefighters or police officers as hero because they got paid to protect us and keep a safety. I think neither John Bubber nor Bernie Laplanet are hero, but they as a team make an inspiring hero.

Although Bernie is the one who committed heroic act, John Bubber has better qualities to be heroic image. It is important for a hero to have certain image. For example, there is no out of shape American comic hero typically because people do care about appearance. If you were a girl and you were about to be saved from some dangerous situation and you had a choice to make either handsome savior or mediocre savior, you would choose good looking one. That’s why I consider Bubber as a mask of hero. Peter parker would not be loved if he didn’t wear a spider-man suit. As you can see in the movie, Bubber is better-looking and have a better a reputation such as being a veteran from Vietnam War.Heo image is very important for audience.

Even Bernie laplanet saved the crashed airplane by his hands and his heart without shoes; he is still a con-man who wants to keep a low-profile. In the beginning of the movie, the lawyer of him who tries to convince him to do something good before the judgment such as seeing his only son, he nodded and pretended he was going to do well. Then, suddenly he stole money and credit cards from her pursue. She is the one try to protect him and she doesn’t deserve any of his bad behavior. He is just a lucky man in front of an accident. After saving people from an airplane, all his concern is a missing expensive shoe or how to squeeze money for his life. Deep down, he knows that he will not always be a hero for everybody and he doesn’t want to be the one. He can not be a hero unless he really changes his mind to live as a better person with more honesty. Saving one event doesn’t make him a hero because a hero devotes more.

The media makes a dirty- long haired homeless guy an angel who doesn’t want to fry the sky of the public love. I don’t think Bubber wants to be hero either. All he wants is a bed to sleep and some money in pocket, but the media treats him as if he were the next president. Bubber emotionally struggles with his guilt which is a heroic lie to everybody because he is a decent human being. I can not blame him for what he does. If I had a shoe to prove and to be able to get the much money for my poor life, I would do same thing. I always think the media tries to excite us twice more than what real event is. The media should be more realistic and bring truth rather than entertaining us.

Everybody loves a hero, but lots of people like to sit and watch because they love themselves to much that they can’t risk their lives. Once you are a hero, there is no turning back. In the end, I’d rather be Bernie than Bubber because he is not hero for everybody, but he is a hero to his son. That’s what I admire.