Spielberg -The difference between hero and Superhero

The 69-year-old American director was recently asked which among the superhero Marvel films is his favorite, during his interview with Brazilian news site Omelete. Out of the several superhero films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe–the “Captain America” and the “Iron Man” movies, to site a few– Spielberg clearly favored “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

In the same interview (via Comic Book Movie), Spielberg also draw a comparison between a hero and a superhero. He revealed his preference on being a hero, because he can easily identify with that person’s ordinary human abilities.

“The hero is an ordinary person who is faced with a serious fact and acts to modify it. A hero is a person who, walking down the street, see a car on fire and runs help the person who is in the driver’s seat, attached to the seat belt to loosen. Super-hero is a person who, on the same scene, would fly to the car and try to turn it upside down and shake it using his super strength, until the driver is released,” Spielberg said in his interview with Omelete.