The basic idea of the movie Hero was about a man named Bernie Laplante whom committed a heroic act under the pre tenses of not doing good, but just merely seeing, an image of his son in a struggling child. Which led him to realize that his life of crime would tear him away from his child and he saw this as a time to sort of gain retribution for his own transgressions, as to not remove another child from their father. The movie Hero had a lot of central ideas and theme points in which to touch on in this paper, but the theme in which I choose to engage you in is “Everybody’s a Hero”. Do you think that’s true? I damn sure don’t. How can anyone really be a true hero if they sin? A hero in my eyes must be sinless and pure of mind and thoughts, words and actions. Neither Bernie nor John Bubber the man who assumed his position was any of the above.
Everyone simply can’t be a hero; it just wouldn’t work in the grand scheme of things. If everyone had the qualities of hero’s there would be no crime, there would be no social unrest, there would be no chaos, without chaos there is confusion and just pure social imbalance, which is no good for anyone in this Monopoly day and age. In the movie Hero my point is clearly demonstrated when Bernie Laplante, while in the act of saving lives on the burning plane he stole someone’s wallet. Where’s the heroism in that? So you may be sitting there thinking well what about our local police officials and firemen aren’t they heroes? Hell NO. How could anyone sit here and possibly justify to me what these men and women do in their spare times. It’s impossible; my grandmother always told me “ Look out for the Devil in Church Clothes”. Which simply means the purest of people and the wholesome of people can still have the power to do evil, no matter how they perceive themselves to the rest of the world.
After all this you must be thinking I have really high, Like Superman high type standards for my hero’s. And you are absolutely right, I do. My heroes are best left kept in the comic books where they belong. There are people out here who do good things every day, don’t get me wrong but, these people have common “HUMAN” fumbles, which we all do, but to hold them to a standard like a hero is ludicrous. For example in the movie, the director tried too per sway the viewer to feel some sort of, honor for John Bubber even though he lied and assumed a position that wasn’t rightfully his. The phrase “we can all be heroes” is more like a motivating mantra that people say to get themselves pumped for a horrible day. If we could all be heroes I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be writing this or you reading it. I think we all have the power to do great and influential things, but hero NO, let’s just all save that for the professionals.
Another reason why I disagree with the notion that everyone can be a hero is that, like me with my opinion of a hero, I doubt a lot of people in the world are juxtaposed with me on that. I like to think everyone shares some type of agreement on things but, separately in the thought process, but to think that everyone agrees with me is wrong. That’s why opinions of hero’s vary, like my previous example with the police officers, some people may beg to differ and believe that they are hero’s or some people may think that there neighbor is a hero for turning off the oven because they left it on. Some people may consider mail men to be hero’s because they always deliver that check on time. I personally think none of us are heroes but just pure mortals who try to emulate.
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