CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR Described as a “Family Dispute”
It's no secret that the Avengers superhero team are going to find themselves at odds in Joe and Anthony Russo’s Captain America: Civil War. In case you’re wondering how bad it will get, don’t expect to see any fights to the death during the hero-on-hero combat. While talking to Collider, Anthony Mackie was asked about this, and he said the feud between them plays out more like a family dispute:
“Nah, it’s not MMA. We definitely have gloves on. It’s more a family dispute, and that’s what so great about this movie and the characters and how they work together. It’s more so when you have a sibling rivalry. The reason why people can relate to these characters so much, is because they can relate to what they’re going through. Everybody’s fought with one of their siblings or one of their friends and wanted to make up with them but couldn’t figure out how to do it.”
Chris Evans chimed in with his input:
“Well said, I feel like families – you have more struggles with the people you love [because] you care about them. You can’t leave them, you have to make this work. If it’s someone you can cut out of your life, no problem. You may not get along, but you can’t just cut them out of your life.”
This being a Captain America film, it going to be fun to see some more focus on certain central characters. We are going to see some of the key relationships between some of these characters explored in more depth, which is perfect. Evans continued:
“Marvel has a lot of balls in the air. You have a lot of movies that they’re trying to bring together. When you have characters like Falcon and Winter Soldier, these movies are really compressing these storylines. In this movie alone, there’s the relationship between Cap and Falcon, the relationship between Cap and Winter Soldier… there’s a lot of things that they’re trying to marry.”
I have no doubt in Marvel’s ability to give us something exciting. I love these characters, and I can’t wait to see where this next film takes them. It’s set to be released on May 6th, 2016. Are you disappointed to hear that that this is going to be more of a family type dispute, rather than a violent MMA fight? Or is this what you were expecting?
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