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The First Avenger, with its steampunk-laser weirdness and numbing, never-ending montages, felt dull and insulated. The action and violence are the most grounded we've seen in a Marvel film. But, as Rogers' journey manhandles him out into the cold and makes him a hoodie-wearing renegade advised to "trust nobody" and targeted by a similarly empowered super-agent (the titular Winter Soldier), the influence of the Bourne trilogy weighs down, too - the Russos even going so far as to steal a famous Bourne shot directly towards the film's end. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is in there too, for sure. suit Alexander Pierce suggests 1975's Three Days Of The Condor as its most obvious inspiration. It is certainly the studio's most talky and plotty, and the big wink that is the casting of Robert Redford (who, by the way, would have been ideal Cap casting in the '70s) as S.H.I.E.L.D. It's uncertain how much any of it will land with the film's young, core audience, although this does feel like Marvel's most 'mature' picture yet, an admirable risk to take. Pretty bold stuff to be sneaking under the canvas of this primary-coloured marquee. There are then indirect tributes to Edward Snowden's whistleblowing and shades of the NSA privacy-invasion scandal. For Rogers the moral decline appears instantaneous, and it rankles intensely. History has seen the nation gradually diminished from world's saviour, to world's policeman, to a "caretaker" over the course of decades. This is not what America should be doing. goons take out a crew of French/Algerian pirates, our blond hero complains of being forced to play "Fury's caretaker".
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During a great opening set-piece in which Rogers, Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) and a squad of S.H.I.E.L.D. Post-Chitauri invasion, Rogers is a useful asset for shady superspy network S.H.I.E.L.D., but also a pain in the ass. Something co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Welcome To Collinwood) clearly relish getting their indie-cred teeth into on a blockbuster scale. As a 95 year-old thirtysomething with an early-'40s value set in War-On-Terror America, he is less the USA's poster boy than its most steadfast foil. During the very same dialogue he says, "I thought the punishment usually came after the crime," and - just in case we hadn't got the point - "This isn't freedom, this is fear." Even so, what we have here is the key to Captain America's real appeal, the answer to any criticism that he's just a stiff-necked, steroidal boy scout. "You're holding a gun to everyone on Earth and calling it protection," Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) tells Nick Fury (Samuel L. Not that writers Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus are being subtle about it.
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There is something pleasingly, and no doubt deliberately, ironic in Marvel Studios' flag-wearing hero fronting its most subversive movie yet.