Details on the “Splash Page” Fight Scene in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
There’s going to be a big epic fight sequence between Iron Man’s team and Captain America’s team in Captain America: Civil War. We got a little glimpse of it in the trailer that was released. The scene shows our favorite heroes fighting each other on the tarmac of an airport. It’s really weird see these MCU characters fighting each other, but that’s just where the story is going to take them.
A major part of the story revolves around Bucky Barnes/The Winter Solider and Captain America trying to save him, maybe even help him find redemption for the terrible things that he’s done over the years. In an interview with EW, Chris Evans said:
“Had Bucky not been brainwashed he’d be doing the same thing Cap is doing, taking orders from S.H.I.E.L.D. and fighting for the country and then realizing S.H.I.E.L.D. is corrupt. But Bucky’s a different situation. He obviously couldn’t make these choices. This is — I don’t want to give too much about the plot away but Bucky’s a big piece of the puzzle in this movie just because it gives Steve something that he really hasn’t had besides Peggy, but even Peggy is well on in her life.”
He added:
“No one on this planet knew him then. No one is left. He doesn’t have any peace with his youth. He doesn’t have any peace from his life, so Bucky and whatever happens with Bucky in this movie… That’s a big piece in terms of him kind of finding his own purpose in what he’s fighting for and how that friendship can come back to life. Not just them as soldiers, but them as friends.”
This will eventually lead to a climatic battle that is sure to leave fans breathless. That scene was called the “Splash Page” fight by the cast and crew. Why? Because that's a comic-book term for a full-spread illustration that either opens a story or marks its climax.
According to EW, we’ll see Black Widow give “an all-out thrashing to Ant-Man, Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch blast away at the sky — him with his trusty bow and arrows, her with her mystical red energy pulses. They’re trying to knock some unseen threat out of the air.” That unseen force could end up being Rhodey and Vision. Then there’s Iron Man “flying low and locked onto another target: Captain America. Evans raises his shield, slings an upper cut through the air, and gets in one more hit against his invisible foe before he’s almost taken out in real life.”
Talking about the story for the film and how it will affect the characters, director Joe Russo explained:
“The story is about family. And what happens if they don’t agree. We’ve been comparing it to a fight at a wedding. What happens when your cousin and your brother go at it, and whose side are you on, and where does it go from there?”
Anthony Russo added:
“How do you move forward from a moment where people who used to love each other and were on the same side, now hate each other and are trying to hurt each other?. [Cap is] such a strong, grounded, morally centered, ethically centered character. You can beat at him pretty hard as a hero, to try to crack that strength — both morally and physically.”
The movie will rock theaters on May 6th, 2016. What do you think of what the cast and crew had to say about the movie here?