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The Marvel Cinematic Universe took its next progressive leap with its very first full-length feature film that has an Asian superhero as its protagonist, Shang Chi, and The Legend of the Ten Rings. The movie kicks off the story about the Ten Rings organization which gets mentioned twice or thrice before in the MCU films- Ironman, The Ant-Man, and Iron Man 2. The Shang Chi movie scored a record 19 million dollars on Labour day which has been its highest one-day collection. That made the Walt Disney and Marvel movie cross the hundred billion mark in a matter of just five days within its release domestically.
Shang Chi Movie Plot
The film had its premiere in Los Angeles in August of 2021, Shang Chi’s release date in the USA was the third of September 2021. Marvel did a good thing hiring a director from an Asian origin, Destin Daniel Cretton, and a writer from the same, Dave Callaham to create a story from a strictly Asian point of view. White men have written about culturally diverse people before which has only led to furthering the cause of gross stereotypes and cultural appropriation. In order to avoid this, and the issue of misrepresentation, Marvel directed Callaham to write from his point of view. Callaham also categorically mentions in an interview that it was for the very first time someone was asking him to write from his own experience.
The Shang Chi movie aims at connecting the dots between the Ten Rings organization mentioned earlier and phases four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The story revolves around Wenwu, who mysteriously finds out about the Ten Rings which provides him magical powers and thereby establishes the Ten Rings organization. He later falls in love with Ying Li, which the villagers are dismissive of, so they leave the organization, elope, and have two children, Shang Chi and Xialing. Later, when Shang Chi was very young, his mother Li was killed by Wenwu’s enemies called the Iron gang. Wenwu decides to avenge the death of his love and joins the organization again. He also makes Shang Chi go through rigorous training in order to prepare him to avenge the death of his mother. In a fateful turn of events, Shang Chi becomes adept at martial arts and fulfills his purpose, only to become disillusioned with life. Shang Chi then moves to San Francisco and assumes the name Shaun to lead a normal life.
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