The Russo Brothers Break Down The CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR Trailer

Before we do anything else, let's take another look at the Captain America: Civil War trailer, shall we?

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OK, now that everyone's all on the same page, let's talk about Empire's latest interview with the movie's directors, Anthony and Joe Russo. The whole thing is worth reading since they basically go through the trailer beat by beat, but I'll just pull a few of the important quotes out for you below:

“The job is to tie all these films together,” says Joe Russo. “To be able to pull from The Hulk, which may have been forgotten about a little bit, and make it relevant again within the cinematic universe, is important to us. We thought it would be interesting to take a character who had a fanatical anti-superhero point of view,” says Joe Russo of [William Hurt's General Thunderbolt] Ross, who once saw his prospective son-in-law turn big and green and mean. “Now he’s become much savvier and more political and has put himself in a position of power, not unlike a Colin Powell. He’s cornering the Avengers politically now, he’s out-maneuvering them.”
“You cannot have a character called Captain America without examining the politics of what that means, especially in this day and age. The heroes in this universe operate under their own auspices, not under the directive of a government, and that can cause a lot of problems. There’s a certain level of imperialism that we’re examining – what right do those that have power have to use that power, even if it’s to do good? How do you govern that kind of power?”
“We’re using the essence of what Civil War was about. The comic book isn’t applicable to the storytelling that we’ve structured up to this point, but the concept of registration, the notion that heroes need to be either monitored or controlled because their power can be scary, is applicable.”
“The challenge was, we’re doing the story of Civil War,” says Anthony Russo. “Which everybody knows is nominally about superhero registration. And in a lot of ways that can be a political issue, and we didn’t want the conflict of the movie to solely exist on that level. We wanted to figure out very personal reasons why everyone’s relationship to this idea of registration is going to become complicated. That’s what the relationship between Steve and Bucky allowed us to do, to get very personal in terms of why people would lean one way or the other.”
“The arc we’re tracking for Captain America, the thing we thought would be most interesting with this character when we came on board to direct Winter Soldier,” explains Anthony Russo, “was to take him from the most ra-ra company man that you could get, this character who was a somewhat willing propagandist, and by the end of the third film he’s an insurgent.”

There's some really compelling stuff there, especially at the end about Steve becoming an insurgent and how the Russos are placing such a big emphasis on the relationship between Steve and Bucky. That's what drove The Winter Soldier, and I'm glad to see that through-line is continuing in a strong way into this movie, despite how crowded it is. After Age of Ultron (which I considered to be extremely disappointing), I'm incredibly wary of the huge cast in this movie. They're all great individually, or even in small groups, but the reason fans love them is because they've appeared in movies that have given them time to actually breathe and establish themselves as characters, not just breathlessly jump around as a sprawling narrative takes place.

We'll see how well the Russos juggle all of the different storylines when Civil War blasts into theaters on May 6th, 2016.

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