Stan Lee - Creating characters (26/42)

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The creative genius of US writer Stan Lee (1922-2018) generated 'Spider Man', 'X-Men', 'The Hulk' and other complex characters. Marvel Comics with Lee at the helm became hugely successful. In January 2011, Lee received the 2428th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [Listener: Leo Bear; date recorded: 2006].
TRANSCRIPT: You know, none of our characters, none of the characters I created were really based on real people. I've been asked that quite a lot of times. But, it’s… and yet it's impossible to answer any question definitively because, while none of them were based on real people I'm sure that every writer who writes any character… is taking this character from experiences he's had, from people he's known, from other things he's read. Everything we experience is somehow stored in our mind. Even if you have a horrible memory like I do, it's still somewhere in your subconscious. And I'm sure when I write anything at all, if I'm creating a character, in some way it's got to be based on all the things I've seen, and read, and heard, and thought of. But I never specifically say, I'm going to base this character on President Bush, or on Charlie Chaplin or… No. I try to come up with original ones.
[LB] Which character is… would you say is closest to your own character and personality?
Probably the character that's… but not really because he's a scientist and I'm not… but in personality probably Reed Richards in The Fantastic Four, because he talks too much and he tends to get boring after a while but they can't shut him up. And he tries to use big words. Actually I don't know enough big words so I don't have to worry about that too much. But… I don't know. I'd like to think that I'm an amalgam of all of those characters. All of their best features are probably based on me.

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It was from Stan Lee that I learned how to create relatable, grounded, and likable characters. His work was the whole foundation for how I write characters in my stories and continue to be so. Thank you Stan, for everything. Excelsior.

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@@SirwidditWhy thank you, I'm actually hoping to make my own content someday lol

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R.I.P Stan Lee

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R. I. P stan Lee..... We all will remember you!

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I love hearing the words of a legend

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Thank God this has 0 dislikes RIP Stan Lee The *BEST* Writer That Ever Lived

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And there u have Marvel... an idea for character of Richards in the upcoming Fantastic four movie.

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Lee's colleague Jack Kirby certainly based at least one character of his on a real person, in fact it was Stan Lee himself. The character, which he created at DC after he left Marvel in the '70s, was Funky Flashman, a con artist and minor villain trying to take advantage of Mr. Miracle. It was not a flattering characterization. In fact now that I think of it, there was one other character created at the same time he based on another real person. He gave Funky Flashman a toadying, sycophantic sidekick named Houseroy, who was an unflattering caricature of Roy Thomas, Stan Lee's protege at Marvel, and successor as editor in chief.

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Who well play him in a film

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0:43 such a terrible memory, in fact, that he often misremembers creating characters that debuted when he was still in high school 🙄