This year’s first Marvel tentpole
will be Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which will pit the good old
Captain against numerous foes, while trying to adapt to a new and possibly
confusing modern society.
Awhile back there was some chat
regarding the tone of the sequel, and one of the things that were being thrown
out there was that it was going to resemble a 70’s thriller, which is apparent
in the trailer when Cap starts questioning and getting suspicious over S.H.I.E.L.D.’s
intentions.
In an interview to Empire,
co-writer Stephen McFeely talks about how they modernized the character:
“How do we make sense of him in
the modern world? I mean, he’s really Gary Cooper. The solution is kind of that
the world changes in response to him. He is usually correct. In this one, we’re
dealing with the Cap after Marvel thawed him out in the ’60s, the one whose
values don’t necessarily match ours. We went down a bunch of roads and kept
coming back to this idea of a conspiracy movie. It’s what’s going to get the
most out of the moral dilemma for the character. How does he fit in? How does
he see where we’ve ended up? He hasn’t experienced everything we’ve gone
through to get to this point, where agendas are now really murky.”
Marvel Studios President Kevin
Feige then added:
“In our attempt to make all of
our films feel unique and feel different we found ourselves going back to
things like [Three Days of the Condor]. Also the other political thrillers of
the ’70s: The Parallax View, All The President’s Men. This was a time that Cap
existed in in the comics. He found himself in the swinging ’60s followed by the
Watergate era followed by the Reagan era followed by where we are today. In the
comics it was a hell of a journey for Steve, And we couldn’t take him through
those years because in our cinematic universe he was asleep. But we wanted to
force him to confront that kind of moral conundrum, something with that ’70s
flavor. And in our film that takes the form of S.H.I.E.L.D..”
Co-director Joe Russo continues:
“We knew that they wanted a
thriller, which was an idea we loved, but they have been incredibly supportive
of how different in tone we’ve made this compared to the first film. I don’t
know that we’ll ever work again with a company like this. Kevin is a uniquely
creative executive producer. We’ve had the least amount of interference and the
most amount of support that we’ve ever had on a movie. There are layers to this
film. It makes the characters more interesting. I think when people see this
film they’ll realize how unique this Captain America franchise is. This is a
radically different movie than the first.”
“We’ve been studying it over and
over in slow motion. Why is that car chase so effective? Because you care about
who’s in the car. The Conversation, Blow Out for a kind of tone; how sound
design helps to build the paranoia. So we’re building things into the back
speakers that you kind of don’t hear. We’re both real fans of [Michael Mann’s]
Heat and the heist sequence in that, the vérité style.”
Co-director Anthony Russo adds:
“What made ’70s thrillers
interesting is that it was a very complicated time.We were peeling back the
curtain with Watergate and realizing how corrupt the system was. Now, again
with the proliferation of social media, you can blow the whistle on the NSA and
it can be round the world in 30 seconds. And we have the morality of drones. It
is right to preemptively use them to kill suspected terrorists prior to any
sort of trial? So the times we’re living in are even more complex.”
And finally Chris Evans talks
about Cap trying to find his place in the World after the Battle of New York.
“We really haven’t explored his
adjustment period. In The Avengers we had so many characters you have to
address, you don’t really have time to sit with any single one. In this movie
there’s a lot going on for Steve. He’s trying to acclimatize to the modern
world. I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s about trying to find how he
fits. He’s a man from the 1940s. He’s just woken up. For everybody else, it’s
been a slow burn to get to where we are in 2014. But for him, suddenly there’s
the internet, cellphones and The Patriot Act. The technology’s new to him and
so is the access the government has to that technology.”
Captain America: The Winter
Soldier opens on April 4th, 2014 and stars Chris Evans (Steve
Rogers/Captain America), Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow),
Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), Maximiliano
Hernández (Agent Jasper Sitwell) Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier),
Anthony Mackie (Sam Wilson/The Falcon), Toby Jones (Arnim Zola), Frank Grillo
(Brock Rumlow/Crossbones), George St. Pierre (Batroc the Leaper) Emily VanCamp (Sharon Carter/Agent 13) and
Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce the head of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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