Marvel's The Punisher Trailer Breakdown: 8 Things You Need To See
8. Coming To America
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While it was established earlier in season two of Daredevil that Frank's a New Yorker born and raised, his parents were immigrants. Born Francis Castiglione, the Punisher of the comics was born to a Sicilian family, something that - if this trailer is anything to go by - will be a continuing theme in the MCU.
The above shot taken from the trailer features what is, imaginably, the Castle family as they sail past Liberty Island. The Statue of Liberty is totally synonymous with the narrative surrounding immigration and the US, and the image juxtaposes nicely with later events that, in no small way, destroy Castle's own American dream.
Patriotic imagery tends to permeate the character's comics in a scathing way, so it's nice to see the series continuing where they left off.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
