#CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR PLOT MOVIE#
#CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR PLOT TV#

Which is kind of cheap when you think about it. It’s as if everyone’s just figuring out now that when Iron Man knocks over a skyscraper, there may be a few hundred people inside that just died. Captain America: Civil War is about the latest trend in superhero films – PUBLIC DESTRUCTION. That’s what this is about.”īut is it what it was about? Not really. So the superheroes are going to fight each other.

So that anytime you forgot, you’d go, “Oh yeah, this is called Civil War. Honestly, I think that’s why they called it Civil War.

#CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR PLOT MOVIE#

We’re jumping around so damn much that I’d forget what the fucking movie was about.

So we get this weird hybrid movie-TV structure that never feels comfortable with itself, like a dress that doesn’t fit right. With movies, everything has to be figured out by the end of the film. So you can afford to go 15 minutes without mentioning a key storyline between characters because we know we’re going to see those guys next week.

#CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR PLOT TV#

With TV shows, you always have a new episode next week. The difference is, movies weren’t built for that. We’d jump to Cap and Buckey, then Scarlet Witch and Vision, then Iron Man and Spider-Man. What do TV shows do? They stuff their shows with lots of characters and each scene moves along a couple of those characters at a time. And I’ve come to realize how they’ve handled this change.įast and Furious and Avengers films have become giant TV shows. It’s not about character development anymore. And with a movie like this, you’re jumping around to so many damn people, all Captain America has time to do is say, “I don’t like what’s going on.” And how fucking interesting is that?īut franchises like Harry Potter and Marvel and Fast and Furious have made this the new norm for summer films. And when you do that, it becomes difficult to develop the hero, to arc the hero, to give them any sort of meaningful journey. Indiana Jones, John McClane, shit, even the recent Deadpool.Įvery scene where you focus on a character who isn’t your hero, you are taking time away from your hero. It’s the formula that works best for the feature film format. I’m still of the old-school belief that movies are best served with a single dominant hero. And that’s probably the hardest thing to do in screenwriting, is balance a huge cast of characters. In fact, scripting a superhero film, especially one like Captain America: Civil War, is one of the hardest things a screenwriter will ever have to do.īecause you’re not just trying to please 20 different people who all have their own ideas of how the script should go. Whenever I write about these superhero movies, people say, “These movies have nothing to do with screenwriting.” And while I can understand where they’re coming from, they’re wrong. Writers: Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (comic by Mark Millar) (characters by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby) The two also wrote the upcoming Avengers 3 & 4, which will be filming back to back. The script was written by the top writing duo at Marvel, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Maybe the 180 million dollar opening (just 11 million less than the more heavily hyped Avengers 2) has alleviated some of those fears. Apparently this was one of Marvel’s toughest productions, with the top brass complaining that way too much money was being spent on something that wasn’t an official Avengers film. Premise: When the government attempts to gain control over the Avengers, it fractures the team, leading to an inevitable battle between those who believe they should be contained, and those who want freedom.Ībout: People in the industry have been calling this Avengers 2.5 for awhile now, not just in scope, but in budget.

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