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Joe Johnston Comments Briefly On Making Captain America Relatable! |
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Monday, 30 May 2011 09:41 |
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As with any superhero movies these days, a lot of time has been spent focusing on how Captain America can be portrayed as a relatable character to a modern audience. Marvel Studios accomplished it with THOR (a movie which saw the arrogant Asgardian God stripped of his powers and forced to learn from humanity) and are looking to do the same with Captain America: The First Avenger as director Joe Johnston explains below.
"The transformation is absolutely key to understanding Steve Rogers as a character."
"He is essentially Everyman, a 98-pound weakling who is chosen for the rebirth program not for his physical attributes but because of who he is as a human being, with his sense of justice and compassion. It’s crucial that we know and love Steve as the kid who’s been bullied and rejected all his life so we’ll appreciate and relate to who he is as Captain America."
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