I went to see the new Captain America movie with some friends
recently. There are several “insider”
things that accompany the Marvel superhero movies. You can tell those who know the “insider” stuff
because they don’t leave the theater when the credits run at the end of the
movie because there is always a “sneak peak” of the next movie after the first
few minutes of the credits run. Those
that leave… well they just don’t know what they are missing (or care probably,
but that’s another discussion).
Another “insider” event in each
Marvel movie is the cameo of Stan Lee.
He is one of the creators of the Marvel universe and he plays small
parts in each of the movies. So the “insiders”
watch and then elbow each other (at least I do because I think I’m so cool for
knowing these things) when he shows up.
He isn’t the first to do these cameos.
Alfred Hitchcock did them in his movies a generation ago. If you don’t know Hitchcock or his movies,
you need to look them up. You are missing
out.
I was reading a book called “Landmarks”
by Bill Delvaux. He talks about the
landmarks of our lives as our story plays out.
We each have a story to live, understand and tell. Here is an incredible truth: Jesus wrote himself
into our story. But it wasn’t a cute or
funny cameo. No-he wrote himself in as
the One who would suffer. He was the One
who would take the punishment, the pain, and the rejection. It is a terrible part really-mocked, beaten,
degraded and killed. Not one I would
ever write for myself. You?
