Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 1 is one of the most beloved movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Chris Pratt's Peter Quill along with Gamora, Drax, Rocket Racoon, Groot, and many others are what makes Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 1 so special. But how has the 10th entry in the marvel cinematic universe aged? In this video essay, I talk about Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy... 9 Years Later!

Chapters:
0:00 - Guardians of the Galaxy... 9 Years Later!
0:56 - An Unlikely Story
3:44 - Peter Quill
13:48 - Gamora
17:31 - Rocket Racoon
21:10 - Other Guardians
26:50 - Legacy of Guardians

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Guardians of the Galaxy has become one of the most beloved series of comic book movies ever made. The characters in this series, as weird as they are, have become household names and key players in the gargantuan MCU. From their appearances in the two guardians films, the two avengers film, and the upcoming third guardians film, people have fallen in love with these characters. With that being said, how did this band of misfits become so popular? Well we gotta travel back in time to 2014 to look at where it all began. With Guardians of the Galaxy volume 1. All these years later, how has the movie aged? Is the story still powerful? Are the themes still relevant? Knowing where these characters end up, how were their introductions? And what is the legacy of this film? Hello everybody and welcome to another video, my name is the gold man and today we are looking at Guardians of the Galaxy, all these years later.
Before we dive deep into the movie itself and all its strengths and weaknesses, I think it’s important to discuss the sheer existence of this movie. Guardians of the Galaxy came out in 2014 and was the 10th movie in the MCU. All the major characters in this movie make their MCU in this movie. And these characters include a guy who isn’t a superhero, a green chick, a buff gray dude, a talking racoon, and a tree who only says I am groot. None of these characters had prior introductions in the mcu, this was their first movie. The MCU at this point had only really been about Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor. People forget about the hulk movie, and the avengers movie was really about them. While superhero movies weren’t at their peak yet, they were still popular enough to put people in the seats. Nowadays viewers are used to these crazy movies and shows like Ant-Man and the Wasp, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, Wandavision, and plenty of others. Back then the strangest MCU project we got was Thor, and he spent the majority of his first two movies on earth. Mind you these two “weird movies” were two of the weaker MCU movies at the time, especially the dark world. This movie was in early production sometime in 2011 with it being officially announced in mid 2012. Keep in mind in 2011, the MCU wasn’t this juggernaut. It wasn’t until 2012 when the avengers came out that this franchise became popular. So Kevin Feige thought of making this movie before any of the MCU movies made a billion dollars. So in 2012 when this movie was announced, I would argue that the marvel brand wasn’t that strong yet, but the main trio of the avengers were strong. So going into 2014, guardians of the galaxy had very little going for it. How were you going to adapt all these weird characters onto the big screen for audiences to fall in love with? Well in order to make a weird movie successful you need a weird dude in charge, so marvel hired James Gunn as lead writer and director. His filmography at that point included a horror movie called Slither (2006), a fun superhero comedy in Super (2010), and he wrote the two live action Scooby Doo movies. And if you’ve watched those scooby doo movies, they’re hilarious. Kevin Feige put his trust in this weird director to adapt one of the weirdest marvel comic stories. Of course Guardians of the Galaxy became a huge success. But I wanted to take this time to emphasize how huge of a risk this movie was. People love to say the MCU plays things safe, but the sheer existence of this movie is the exact opposite of safe. And Kevin Feige and the executives at Marvel deserve massive credit for taking this risk.
Let’s begin by looking at the main character of the movie, Star Lord aka Peter Quill. But before we do that, in typical Gold Man fashion lets ask ourselves what is Guardians of the Galaxy about? No it’s not about getting the power stone. I would argue Guardians of the Galaxy is about two things that are heavily intertwined: how people deal with loss, and how people learn to share their pain.