The Endgame of an Era

Few film franchises have transformed pop culture worldwide as much as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is 22 films in, and it shows no signs of slowing down. With the biggest film in the franchise, Avengers: Endgame , releasing this week, Nikhil and Sindhu explore the relevance of the MCU as a global phenomenon, how it has become a box-office juggernaut even in markets like China and India (where it had an unprecedented local publicity strategy on multiple fronts), and where it is headed as a global platform for diversity and representation. Joining them for the discussion are guests Siddhant Adlakha , freelance film critic for publications like The Village Voice, Polygon, and /Film, who did a deep dive of all the MCU films leading up to Endgame for /Film in a series called 'Road to Endgame ' , and Vedang Patel, co-founder of the online merchandise company The Souled Store , an official Marvel merchandiser. After talking to Siddhant and Vedang, Nikhil and Sindhu get into a spoiler-filled conversation around Endgame to discuss how carefully designed it is to ensure maximum emotional and narrative satisfaction, the constraints that the MCU faces with the stories it tells, both from a production and a box-office standpoint, and what we're all trying to get out of the MCU, and whether we're actually at the end of a particular era. And how cool is the logo for this episode? @aparna_ramanujam kills it every time. Music Credits: "Me In Your Life" Music By The Passion HiFi Music from "Chill Wave" by Kevin MacLeod ( Licence: CC BY ( Sorrow by Sappheiros | Music promoted by Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Incredibly Close by Savfk | Music promoted by Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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The Endgame of an Era is an episode from Creating Life by Creating Life.

This episode is 00:32:04 long.

This episode was published on Apr 29, 2019.

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