This week, let’s take a look at one currently playing in theaters – Captain America: Civil War.
Plot:
With many people fearing the actions of super heroes, the government decides to push for the Anti-Hero Registration Act, a law that limits a hero’s actions. This results in a division in The Avengers. Iron Man stands with this Act, claiming that their actions must be kept in check otherwise cities will continue to be destroyed, but Captain America feels that saving the world is daring enough and that they cannot rely on the government to protect the world. This escalates into an all-out war between Team Iron Man (Iron Man, Black Panther, Vision, Black Widow, War Machine, and Spiderman) and Team Captain America (Captain America, Bucky Barnes, Falcon, Sharon Carter, Scarlett Witch, Hawkeye, and Ant Man) while a new villain emerges.
Trivia:
• The longest Marvel film to date, at 2 hours and 27 minutes.
• The finalists for the Spider-Man role would do separate screen tests with Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr., with the intent of seeing whose chemistry fit the best with both Evans and Downey.
• Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans described the dynamic between Iron Man/Tony Stark and Captain America/Steve Rogers as a marriage, saying, "We love each other, but it's explosive. You're working toward the same goal, but you have very different approaches to it. It's blurry, and that's what makes it great; no one's right, no one's wrong. It's going to make it even harder for them to come to an agreement."
• Chris Evans injured his arm muscles while filming the iconic shot of Captain America holding back a helicopter with his hands. Evans said of the shot, 'That shot is a little bit of bicep porn. 'Zoom in on the biceps' - that's what the script said. Kevin Feige didn't airbrush my biceps, that's me. It's not a utilitarian shot, it's a shot where you're trying to look heroic. That position (of holding the helicopter with one hand and the ledge with another) is actually a very unnatural position to use to stop something but we used it because I have to flex my bicep, you are trying to make the scene look great. And I genuinely messed my arm doing that shot because of the strain. Robert Downey Jr. joked that the film-makers didn't mind that Evans hurt himself because of how great the shot turned out and they have been using it to promote the film ever since. Anthony Russo revealed that the iconic shot almost did not happen because on the day of the film-making there was a mis-communication with the costume department and Evans came in wearing a thick jacket. They immediately sent him back to change because then they wouldn't have been able to film the shot of his muscles bulging as intended in the script.
• Cameo - Stan Lee appears towards the end of the film as a FedEx delivery man. He mispronounces Tony Stark as Tony "Stank".
Goofs:
• The sleeve patches on the Russian soldiers in the beginning showing the flag of the modern day Russian Federation. The scene took place on Dec 16, 1991, the USSR was still in existence (though only for another 10 days). The soldiers would have had a red hammer and sickle on their patches instead.
• Despite being a Lieutenant Colonel in Iron Man and Iron Man 2, and a full Colonel in Iron Man 3. Don Cheadle is credited as Lieutenant James Rhodes in this film.
• When T'Challa is checking to see if his father is alive, he feels for a pulse with his thumb. Vital signs cannot be checked the way because the thumb has its own pulse.
• In Bucharest, in the background you can see a building that says FARMACIA. That is Spanish not Romanian. The Romanian translation for pharmacy is farmacie. So we could assume that Puerto Rico was used as Bucharest (since Puerto Rico is listed in the credits).
• Towards the end of the foot/car/motorcycle chase in the tunnel, the SUV that Captain America drives and leaps from as it crashes starts to roll. One of the front doors is open and is almost immediately torn free as the vehicle rolls; in the next shot, a longer shot from further back, the vehicle is intact with all doors closed.
Have a fangtastic day!<3 Brock V"""V
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