Some people refer to "Captain America 2" as "Avengers 1.5", which sounds quite reasonable. Because the various Marvel elements in the film are intertwined and lined up, it involves the American TV series S.H.I.E.L.D., the twins that may appear in the next "X-Men: Reversing the Future", the twins Quick Silver and the Red Witch, Loki, and the infinity on the scepter. Related content such as Gems, Doctor Strange, Baron Strak, etc. will pave the way for future Marvel movies. More importantly, "Captain America 2" is as balanced and exciting as "The Avengers", which allows us to see that Marvel's film project has entered the 2.0 era (marked by the release of "The Avengers"). Stage adjustment and repositioning. In connection with the comic style of Marvel's future "Guardians of the Galaxy" in the trailer, we found that the style of superhero movies has become more diverse and comprehensive.
The role of Captain America is an important image in the world of Marvel's superheroes, but it is also an unpleasant image: he is an old-school character resurrected from the old world; he is a tall representative of the American spirit; he is a leader; His superpowers are very weak-he can't fly, can't perform Turtle Wave Qigong, and has nothing but a shield and a whole body of muscles. All of these in the movie will become the reason for the difficulty of being brilliant.
The director Lu Su brothers turned "Captain America 2" from an exaggerated superhero movie style to a realistic spy movie! Filmed a superhero version of "The Bourne". This is really a wonderful choice! At the beginning of the film, it was a sturdy special forces raid scene. The quick editing and sharp movements of the second and third parts of "The Bourne" were learned in a good manner. Immediately afterwards, a big conspiracy surfaced, and the one-eyed S.H.I.E.L.D. Bureau became perilous and indistinguishable from the enemy. Captain America suddenly found himself in a dangerous situation of being attacked by the enemy.
"Captain America 2" thus got rid of the routine of superhero VS super villain or alien enemy, and entered the world of old-school cold and hard spy movies. This story frame solves many problems: Captain America’s weak superpowers are no longer the reason for the bad appearance, but the fierce moves from punches to the flesh make the film look hard and straightforward; the black temperament, dark background, and conspiracy in spy movies The theme greatly deepens the connotation of the film, and at the same time makes the relatively simple and one-way characters such as Captain America and Black Widow become three-dimensional and vivid.
The most exciting action scene in the film is the one-eyed chasing of the director of SHIELD, which is quite like "Stealing the Line of Fire"! Encountered, besieged, counterattacked, breakthrough, chased and killed, until the Winter Soldier appeared and then fled with one eye, the whole rhythm is ups and downs and tense, all in one go, combining the gunfights, chasing cars and superhero movies of police and criminal films beautifully. Another episode of Captain America's fight between one person and more than a dozen people in the elevator is also quite the essence of spy movies-spy movies often arrange a fight in a small space, highlighting the intense and vile fighting atmosphere and the truth and unexpectedness of the fight. It is reminiscent of the classic train car fighting in "Love from Russia" in the 007 series, and the indoor sparring in "The Bournemouth 2".
In addition to the traces of "The Line of Fire", we can also see the influence of many cold and hard spy films in the 70s and 80s, such as an action scene on the bridge in "French Drug Network"; "72 Hours of the Eagle" (obviously to pay tribute to Robert Redford); there is also a tribute to the "Pulp Fiction" sentence on the one-eyed tombstone; the black widow's sentence "Do you want to play a game" is from 1983 about the Cold War and nuclear The fearful movie "Game of War"... The references of many movies make this film more interesting and rich.
Marvel Super Movies have now clearly divided different style routes: the "Thor" series focuses on gorgeous fantasy style; the "Iron Man" series takes the route of tall, handsome, rich, prodigal and high-tech; the "Spiderman" series is a small and fresh civilian route; The "X-Men" series focuses on the sense of history and time and space; the "Captain America" series may continue to follow the realistic route...
In the first "Captain America", the protagonist experienced the transformation from a weak little person to a tall one. The character image of the shield man is monotonous and boring. "Captain America 2" has the opportunity to enrich and deepen the role: he is not a soldier who only relies on his fists and superpowers to beat the world, but a cool-headed and visionary leader. When other superheroes were played around by One-Eyed in their respective films, Captain America was able to correct One-Eyed's mistakes and restore the overall situation. This kind of hero is much taller and more powerful than the Spider-Man who saved a train man.
The film captures the essence of Captain America, the spiritual return of the "great generation" who had experienced World War II. In such a commercial blockbuster, the director still commendably explored the theme of "freedom and control". The government agents such as the FBI and SHIELD in the film are all portrayed as evil. Numerous Nazi remnants are planted in them, controlling the world in the form of behind-the-scenes black hands. When One-eyed mentioned that President Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066 during World War II and imprisoned 110,000 Japanese expatriates in a settlement (actually like a concentration camp!) shortly after the Pearl Harbor incident to prove his point, Captain America said this might be the case. Roosevelt’s shame; he made it clearer to Cyclops: “The security brought by force is “not freedom, but fear!” After Snowden deciphered a series of official U.S. surveillance programs, this topic is particularly meaningful—although in Such a superhero movie cannot be discussed in depth, but at the end, we see the three search super sky battleships firing at each other, turning into fragments and falling from the sky, it may be better than seeing the superheroes at the end of "Avengers" defeat the alien invasion People (often representing a different ethnic culture from the United States), defending New York feels safer and more comfortable.
Captain America has finally adapted to this new world, or in other words, he has found his belief and position in this new world again.
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