Why ‘Avengers: Endgame’ broke the internet
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 4 April 2019
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR APRIL 4, 2019
As the popularity of superhero movies demonstrates, our culture is desperate for heroes. Today's podcast examines this phenomenon and invites us to a lifestyle that attracts our culture to Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Why Avengers Endgame broke the internet. This is Dr. Jim Denison's The Daily |
| 0:06.7 | Article podcast for Thursday, April 4th, 2019. Avengers Endgame won't be released until April 26th, |
| 0:13.1 | but it broke the internet yesterday. Six hours after tickets went on sale, the film had |
| 0:17.8 | already surpassed the number of ticket sales in the first 24 hours for the previous record holder. |
| 0:22.6 | Star Wars, The Force Awakens. |
| 0:23.6 | Both AMC and Fandango experienced crashes that kept fans from buying tickets. |
| 0:27.6 | I've never seen anything like this, tweeted Fandango's managing editor. |
| 0:31.6 | Why is the latest Avengers film already such a phenomenon? |
| 0:34.6 | One answer is that the movie is billed as Marvel Studios' grand conclusion to 22 films in the franchise. Fans who have watched the others are obviously |
| 0:41.4 | compelled to watch the series end. But the larger story here is that we are a culture in dire |
| 0:45.8 | need of heroes. Movie critic Aaron Free wrote in 2016, whether it's random terrorist attacks, |
| 0:52.2 | overpopulation, rising crime rates, the threat of financial collapse, the mental hangover of the global financial crisis, prejudice, ignorance, infectious killer viruses, or just traffic congestion, or world is on a constant knife edge. |
| 1:05.0 | And in troubled times, people enjoy escapism, and perhaps secretly wished that there were superheroes around to hose down all the |
| 1:11.1 | horrors of the world. Since Free published his article, 12 more superhero movies have appeared |
| 1:15.6 | in theaters. Clearly, our need for heroes is not declining. We have always needed heroes, or more |
| 1:21.2 | specifically, a capital H hero. From our beginning, humans have been creatures dependent on our |
| 1:25.9 | creator. In mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote, God made us, invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on himself. He himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. |
| 1:45.2 | That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering |
| 1:48.9 | about religion. |
| 1:50.3 | God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. |
| 1:54.5 | Because we were created to depend on our creator, Satan has tempted us across human |
| 1:58.3 | history to be like God. |
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