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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Let's just say that it is a good thing that the shooting for Sherlock will be done by the time Infinity war is on the schedule...the bad thing is that it will most likely takes ages again until he has time for season 5.
Also, Infinity War 2 (or however it will be called) will be the cleanest ever considering how much time they have for post.
Brie Larson talks a bit about why she wanted to play Captain Marvel
and it's really touching.
I was wondering earlier… could Infinity War and/or its sequel make $2 billion worldwide? If any Marvel film will ever make that much, it would be one of those (Avatar, Titanic & The Force Awakens are currently the only films that reached $2 billion). It's a long shot, but who knows.
edited 11th Sep '16 12:47:38 PM by Spinosegnosaurus77
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Which ones? Lots of other works like Minority Report and Psycho Pass did the whole precrime thing already, but it did come out just as the whole Snowden and PRISM controversy popped up. So Sitwell and Zola's schtick about being able to predict people's futures from their pasts got a lot of eyes peeled.
Like, there's this whole theme people keep talking about in Winter Soldier of it being a debate over government supervision and surveillance, and some people accuse it of being a debate and switch. All this puzzles me because, from my perspective, I've never seen it as that. I see it as a damn good political thriller with bits of espionage mixed in.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?That's where the Debate and Switch comes from. Trailers heavily played up the ideological conflict between Fury and Rogers, masking Hydra's involvement by creating the impression that the movie was actually going to be about Cap and S.H.I.E.L.D. coming to blows over the latter's authoritarian measures towards ensuring absolute security at a cost to freedom.
That's why some are disappointed about the Hydra twist. While it was a very well-preserved twist and executed quite well, it also defanged the Cap v. S.H.I.E.L.D. conflict by revealing that the "Security" side was secretly being undermined by Nazis, which takes all the bite out of the discussion.
The movie still tried to have its cake and eat it too by making Hydra into the Well Intentioned Extremists we were expecting from S.H.I.E.L.D., but it was a moot point. Any attempt at a real debate is lost the moment you associate one side of the debate with literal Nazis. It's hard to get more "obvious Strawman" than that.
edited 11th Sep '16 6:25:41 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Neo-Fascists. HYDRA is made of Neo-Fascists.
And well, the debate itself is present in the movie. It just isn't verbally debated between the characters a great deal, but things like Widow wiki-leaking the SHIELD files being presented as a very good thing and the movie's solution to the conflict being getting rid of SHIELD altogether rather than reforming it poses questions when compared to real world issues with the CIA, for example.
I think the HYDRA twist doesn't really weaken the conflict as much as tweaks it. It is meant to signal how far can great men fall in their search for security in modern times. Alexander Pierce is where we see this the most, the man who seeks peace and order going so far to it that he becomes a neo-fascist willing to do whatever it takes it.
edited 11th Sep '16 6:27:55 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."The files end up having more complex rammifications in following movies and tv shows, but within the context of the Winter Soldier itself, which we're talking about here, it is viewed as a unambiguously heroic action. And even with the benefit of hindsight, it's still heroic.
And people caring about the distinctions between Nazism and Neo-Fascism or not, I will never stop correcting because mischaracterizing one as the other doesn't help any discussion.
edited 11th Sep '16 6:31:48 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."The Nazi-fascist divide matters a lot when it comes to applying the themes to modern geopolitics, especially with countries with majority people who don't line up with Nazi ideals, such as the multicultural US (in theory), parts of Europe, and Asian countries. E.g. I came across an argument that whatever Freudian Excuse Fury has from being black makes it OK for him to be Lawful Evil because at least he's still not a Nazi and can't ever be for obvious reasons, and Steve is an idiot for arguing with him against Insight because as a white man he didn't grow up under the same pressures and it's presumptuous of him to impose his beliefs on Fury like that. And the counterargument being that HYDRA are fascists rather than Nazis, and Fury's position as an arm of the US government, which holds a lot of power on the international level, means he's actually in a position of high privilege and an actor for fascist interests.
However, regardless of whatever merits it might have as a character analysis for the conflict between the two as individuals, and it is genuinely interesting food for thought when it comes to how Fury's life experiences affected his philosophy and how it got him to where he was in the movie, it neglects the fact that as the case of Zimbabwe and China show, fascists and authoritarians can come in any color. Especially China, where various political bloggers have noted the parallels between SHIELDRA and the CCP. A comparison that wouldn't work as well if they were viewed as actual Nazis.
edited 11th Sep '16 7:12:39 PM by AlleyOop

Is there any source for this? This is the first I'm hearing of it.
The closest thing I've seen was this quote where the Russos talked about how much of a hassle it is to arrange the film.
I'm certain he will be in the movie (as I'm certain pretty much everybody will be in the movie) but I haven't seen any source about him being a main character or playing a major role in the plot.
edited 10th Sep '16 6:55:47 PM by comicwriter