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movie was good. thought Brie was fine, but i don't think i give a shyt about a single thing in the movie. if the Skrulls aren't evil, doesn't that kill any shot of the Secret Invasion? i thought that was the main reason this was even made other than just adding another Avenger.

T'challa is still the worst main character in his own movie so far.
 

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Solid Movie. :ehh:

First 20 minutes was a little :russell:



The whole voices in her head sequence when the Skrulls had her captured had me :wtf: and :mjlol:


Brie is good in the serious and her :demonic:parts of the movie. In the funnier moments, she is kinda flat.

Sam is Sam. OG. Still got it. :obama:

The Maria Rambeau actress was excellent.
She had me in that scene with her and brie at the table talking and catching up. Great acting by her. :wow:

The lead Skrull actor (actor from Rogue One) was good too.

The science guy Skrull part. :russ:

Could have done without Bening and Law's characters. :manny:


The cat. :whoo:

The connection to End game at the end. :leon:
 

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Solid Movie. :ehh:

First 20 minutes was a little :russell:



The whole voices in her head sequence when the Skrulls had her captured had me :wtf: and :mjlol:


Brie is good in the serious and her :demonic:parts of the movie. In the funnier moments, she is kinda flat.

Sam is Sam. OG. Still got it. :obama:

The Maria Rambeau actress was excellent.
She had me in that scene with her and brie at the table talking and catching up. Great acting by her. :wow:

The lead Skrull actor (actor from Rogue One) was good too.

The science guy Skrull part. :russ:

Could have done without Bening and Law's characters. :manny:


The cat. :whoo:

The connection to End game at the end. :leon:
Honestly the voices in the head part had me confused for like the next 45 minutes

:mjlol::mjlol:
 

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Captain Marvel: 15 Spoiler Facts From Directors Anna Boden And Ryan Fleck

1) The Russos directed the mid-credits sting
russo-brothers.jpg


Just as the Avengers: Infinity War tag teased Captain Marvel’s arrival in the MCU, the Captain Marvel sting tees up her introduction to the surviving Avengers in Avengers: Endgame. While it’s unconfirmed whether that scene comes directly from Endgame (like the Civil Warsnippet from the end of Ant-Man), Anthony and Joe Russo directed the scene. “It’s really a direct lead-in to their movie,” says Boden. “They came up with the concept for it, and we said, ‘That sounds awesome.’”

2) The post-credits scene could have tied into Ragnarok
ragnarok-devil%27s-anus.jpg


While the post-credits tag in the film sees Goose finally spit up the Tesseract from his inner pocket dimensions, an early concept for the ending sting tied into a different area of the Marvel universe. "There was an idea on the table about having Jude Law […] emerge from his pod on Sakaar,” laughs Fleck, referencing the junk planet that Thor and Hulk are stranded on in Thor: Ragnarok, “and then have him look around and see the Devil's Anus behind him and wonder, 'Where the hell am I?'"

3) Goose was involved from the very beginning
captain-marvel-goose.jpg


Carol Danvers aside, the film’s break-out star is Goose – the seemingly cute kitty hiding fearsome tentacles and vast recesses under her adorable ginger exterior. Naturally, she figured in right from the first story meetings. “I mean, a cat, who's a Flerken, who has pocket dimensions?” reasons Fleck. “There was no way that wasn't going to end up in this movie!" She was also penned in as the reason Fury lost his eye right from the off. “Something about that belly being rubbed, Goose did not appreciate,” Fleck notes.

4) Ben Mendelsohn is a cat person
captain-marvel-mendelsohn.jpg


In the film, it’s Samuel L. Jackson’s young Nick Fury who takes an immediate shine to Goose. In real life, it was Ben Mendelsohn. “If there's anyone who's a cat-loving person, it's Ben,” confirms Fleck. “He had to do some acting there to actually express fear of the cat.”

5) The Skrull twist is all about humanity
captain-mavel-skrulls.jpg


Marvel comics fans will have expected the introduction of the shape-shifting alien Skrulls to mark a villainous addition to the on-screen MCU – but in Captain Marvel they’re revealed to be sympathetic, refugees on the run after resisting Kree rule. It’s a switch-up that relates directly to Carol Danvers’ self-discovery. “This was so much a movie about Carol's journey towards finding her own humanity,” says Boden. “Part of that is also seeing the humanity in other people, even people who you don't expect to. The idea of having Carol […] realising that she's been wrong and having to face that was really powerful for us. And if we could make an audience member also have that same experience of assuming that they were one thing and then having their expectations subverted, we thought that would be just all the more powerful.”

6) An early draft began with Carol Danvers on Earth
captain-marvel-maria-carol.jpg


Captain Marvel unfolds unlike any other Marvel origin story – from the opening Danvers already has her powers, with the film instead charting her discovery of her human life. Earlier visions of the film were structured differently, told in a more linear fashion and beginning with Danvers’ Earth life and friendship with Maria Rambeau. “The original opening to the script was a simulated combat situation in her fighter jets,” Fleck reveals. “There was a whole Top Gun-style sequence that we were even planning to shoot for a while. Even though it was an awesome introduction to Carol and Maria Rambeau – and I think it would have been fun for the audience to meet them on Earth as humans – the problem with that is the audience would be so far ahead of the story.” That version would have involved a time-jump to the powered-up Danvers in space, filling in her journey from fighter pilot to galactic warrior along the way. “But you would have already known, and viscerally felt, her as a human,” Fleck argues. “When she is uncovering her past and feeling a bit freaked out by it, I think it's much more effective.”

7) Lashana Lynch's audition made Ryan Fleck cry
captain-marvel-maria.jpg


While her screentime may be relatively limited, British actor Lashana Lynch makes a huge impression as Danvers’ friend and co-pilot Maria Rambeau – and she stood out to the filmmakers right from the off. “When she auditioned for the part she read with Brie, and literally made me cry during her audition,” Fleck recalls. “It takes a lot to make me cry, and I was hiding in the corner trying to wipe my eyes […] I talked to her about it later on, and she said, 'You know what? Even if I didn't get it, that felt good.'"

8) The memory-machine sequence was inspired by Eternal Sunshine
captain-marvel-mindfrak.jpg


Things get trippy early on in Captain Marvel, as Talos trawls through Danvers’ muddled memories – a visually-inventive sequence the team call the ‘Mind-frak’, inspired by a Michel Gondry-Charlie Kaufmanclassic. “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind […] was one of the references that we used when we were creating that sequence,” Fleck confirms.

9) Ben Mendelsohn’s Aussie accent helped make Talos more expressive
captain-marvel-skrulls.jpg


He might look like a space-lizard, with that green skin and those pointy ears, but Mendelsohn’s lead Skrull Talos sounds like he’s Antipodean. Hey, perhaps there’s an equivalent of Australia on the Skrull homeworld. It was a decision that not only helped distinguish him from S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Keller (played by humanoid-Mendelsohn, and at one point impersonated by Talos), but allowed the actor to really pull of that plot twist about the Skrulls’ true intentions. “Everybody is just facile with their natural accent, they can show more emotion,” explains Boden. “I think it was important for him to kind of be as wild as Ben Mendelsohn wants to be.”

10) Captain Marvel’s eventual name is dotted through the film
captain-marvel-suit.jpg


At no point in Captain Marvel does anyone actually call Carol Danvers ‘Captain Marvel’ – but all the seeds for her eventual moniker are sown, some more obvious than others. Of course, you have the influence of Annette Bening’s Mar-Vell, her mentor and hero, as reinterpreted by Nick Fury who sings The Marvelettes’ in response to the Kree scientist’s name – while the final scene has Danvers listed as a Captain for the first time. “You see that she was ‘Captain Carol Danvers’ when [Fury] has her file at the very end, so Captain is there if you want it,” reasons Boden.

11) Carol Danvers inspiring the Avengers Initiative was integral to the film
captain-marvel-ss-main.jpg


With Carol Danvers being Nick Fury’s first alien contact, his encounters with the part-human-part-Kree-part-Tesseract-energy superhero is revealed to be the thing that sparks the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent’s idea to assemble the Avengers. The development was an essential part of the story, Captain Marvel pitched somewhat as an origin story for the MCU as we know it. “Kevin Feige and the Marvel team said, 'We want her to be inspiring Nick Fury to create the Avengers by the end of this movie,’” says Fleck. Something that didchange was the decision not to show Fury typing ‘Avengers’ into his boxy computer. “We did shoot him actually writing the Avengers Initiative on the screen, and it just felt like we didn't need to see it,” Fleck reveals.

12) It was influenced by James Cameron’s ‘90s action movies
true-lies.jpg


The film’s 1995 offered plenty of inspiration for the tone and action found in Captain Marvel – as hinted by the presence of a True Liescardboard standee in the Blockbuster Video store. Boden cites “all those Schwarzenegger films from the ‘90s” as touchstones, while Fleck notes Terminator 2 as a specific reference point. “James Cameronis of course an action legend,” he says. “I worked in a video story in 1995 and I remember those True Lies standees – it was more nostalgia than anything.”

13) The True Lies standee could have been for The Mask instead
the-mask.jpg


That promotional True Lies cut-out meets a fiery demise as Danvers blasts Arnie’s head to smithereens – a move that Schwarzenegger himself signed off on – but an earlier draft had a Jim Carrey favourite in the firing line instead. “We really wanted it to be The Mask, because of the green head,” reveals Boden. “The idea is that she thinks it's a Skrull. We initially tried to get that but they wouldn't clear it.”

14) The Tesseract has been ‘lying around’ since The First Avenger
tesseract.jpg


In a surprise move, it’s a familiar MacGuffin that gives Danvers her immensely powerful abilities – The Tesseract, or as we now know it, the Space Stone. Its pivotal inclusion in Captain Marvel came during a team brainstorming session (“Do we really need to create a whole new energy source for her to gain her powers?” says Boden), and thanks to the events of Captain America: The First Avenger it was already in the hands of the American government. "Our thought was that they had gotten this thing, but they didn't know anything about it,” Boden explains. “They just kind of had it lying around somewhere at S.H.I.E.L.D., and [Mar-Vell] was able to use it to create her lightspeed engine at Pegasus. Only her as an alien would even know it had all this power, and figure out how to harness it.”

15) Annette Bening wasn’t always set to play the Supreme Intelligence
captain-marvel-bening.jpg


The brilliant Annette Bening has a dual role in Captain Marvel – she’s Carol Danvers’ Earth mentor Dr. Wendy Lawson, aka Kree scientists Mar-Vell, but she also appears as the incarnation of the Kree’s Supreme Intelligence that Danvers sees when she communes with the deity. That idea that came later in the planning, courtesy of Boden. “We initially had a separate figure being the Supreme Intelligence,” she confirms. “To have it be connected to her origin and her hero felt like an obvious idea that should have been in there from the very beginning. All of a sudden I woke up from a nap, and I was like 'What the hell are we doing? Why are these two separate people?’”
 

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Captain Marvel: 15 Spoiler Facts From Directors Anna Boden And Ryan Fleck

1) The Russos directed the mid-credits sting
russo-brothers.jpg


Just as the Avengers: Infinity War tag teased Captain Marvel’s arrival in the MCU, the Captain Marvel sting tees up her introduction to the surviving Avengers in Avengers: Endgame. While it’s unconfirmed whether that scene comes directly from Endgame (like the Civil Warsnippet from the end of Ant-Man), Anthony and Joe Russo directed the scene. “It’s really a direct lead-in to their movie,” says Boden. “They came up with the concept for it, and we said, ‘That sounds awesome.’”

2) The post-credits scene could have tied into Ragnarok
ragnarok-devil%27s-anus.jpg


While the post-credits tag in the film sees Goose finally spit up the Tesseract from his inner pocket dimensions, an early concept for the ending sting tied into a different area of the Marvel universe. "There was an idea on the table about having Jude Law […] emerge from his pod on Sakaar,” laughs Fleck, referencing the junk planet that Thor and Hulk are stranded on in Thor: Ragnarok, “and then have him look around and see the Devil's Anus behind him and wonder, 'Where the hell am I?'"

3) Goose was involved from the very beginning
captain-marvel-goose.jpg


Carol Danvers aside, the film’s break-out star is Goose – the seemingly cute kitty hiding fearsome tentacles and vast recesses under her adorable ginger exterior. Naturally, she figured in right from the first story meetings. “I mean, a cat, who's a Flerken, who has pocket dimensions?” reasons Fleck. “There was no way that wasn't going to end up in this movie!" She was also penned in as the reason Fury lost his eye right from the off. “Something about that belly being rubbed, Goose did not appreciate,” Fleck notes.

4) Ben Mendelsohn is a cat person
captain-marvel-mendelsohn.jpg


In the film, it’s Samuel L. Jackson’s young Nick Fury who takes an immediate shine to Goose. In real life, it was Ben Mendelsohn. “If there's anyone who's a cat-loving person, it's Ben,” confirms Fleck. “He had to do some acting there to actually express fear of the cat.”

5) The Skrull twist is all about humanity
captain-mavel-skrulls.jpg


Marvel comics fans will have expected the introduction of the shape-shifting alien Skrulls to mark a villainous addition to the on-screen MCU – but in Captain Marvel they’re revealed to be sympathetic, refugees on the run after resisting Kree rule. It’s a switch-up that relates directly to Carol Danvers’ self-discovery. “This was so much a movie about Carol's journey towards finding her own humanity,” says Boden. “Part of that is also seeing the humanity in other people, even people who you don't expect to. The idea of having Carol […] realising that she's been wrong and having to face that was really powerful for us. And if we could make an audience member also have that same experience of assuming that they were one thing and then having their expectations subverted, we thought that would be just all the more powerful.”

6) An early draft began with Carol Danvers on Earth
captain-marvel-maria-carol.jpg


Captain Marvel unfolds unlike any other Marvel origin story – from the opening Danvers already has her powers, with the film instead charting her discovery of her human life. Earlier visions of the film were structured differently, told in a more linear fashion and beginning with Danvers’ Earth life and friendship with Maria Rambeau. “The original opening to the script was a simulated combat situation in her fighter jets,” Fleck reveals. “There was a whole Top Gun-style sequence that we were even planning to shoot for a while. Even though it was an awesome introduction to Carol and Maria Rambeau – and I think it would have been fun for the audience to meet them on Earth as humans – the problem with that is the audience would be so far ahead of the story.” That version would have involved a time-jump to the powered-up Danvers in space, filling in her journey from fighter pilot to galactic warrior along the way. “But you would have already known, and viscerally felt, her as a human,” Fleck argues. “When she is uncovering her past and feeling a bit freaked out by it, I think it's much more effective.”

7) Lashana Lynch's audition made Ryan Fleck cry
captain-marvel-maria.jpg


While her screentime may be relatively limited, British actor Lashana Lynch makes a huge impression as Danvers’ friend and co-pilot Maria Rambeau – and she stood out to the filmmakers right from the off. “When she auditioned for the part she read with Brie, and literally made me cry during her audition,” Fleck recalls. “It takes a lot to make me cry, and I was hiding in the corner trying to wipe my eyes […] I talked to her about it later on, and she said, 'You know what? Even if I didn't get it, that felt good.'"

8) The memory-machine sequence was inspired by Eternal Sunshine
captain-marvel-mindfrak.jpg


Things get trippy early on in Captain Marvel, as Talos trawls through Danvers’ muddled memories – a visually-inventive sequence the team call the ‘Mind-frak’, inspired by a Michel Gondry-Charlie Kaufmanclassic. “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind […] was one of the references that we used when we were creating that sequence,” Fleck confirms.

9) Ben Mendelsohn’s Aussie accent helped make Talos more expressive
captain-marvel-skrulls.jpg


He might look like a space-lizard, with that green skin and those pointy ears, but Mendelsohn’s lead Skrull Talos sounds like he’s Antipodean. Hey, perhaps there’s an equivalent of Australia on the Skrull homeworld. It was a decision that not only helped distinguish him from S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Keller (played by humanoid-Mendelsohn, and at one point impersonated by Talos), but allowed the actor to really pull of that plot twist about the Skrulls’ true intentions. “Everybody is just facile with their natural accent, they can show more emotion,” explains Boden. “I think it was important for him to kind of be as wild as Ben Mendelsohn wants to be.”

10) Captain Marvel’s eventual name is dotted through the film
captain-marvel-suit.jpg


At no point in Captain Marvel does anyone actually call Carol Danvers ‘Captain Marvel’ – but all the seeds for her eventual moniker are sown, some more obvious than others. Of course, you have the influence of Annette Bening’s Mar-Vell, her mentor and hero, as reinterpreted by Nick Fury who sings The Marvelettes’ in response to the Kree scientist’s name – while the final scene has Danvers listed as a Captain for the first time. “You see that she was ‘Captain Carol Danvers’ when [Fury] has her file at the very end, so Captain is there if you want it,” reasons Boden.

11) Carol Danvers inspiring the Avengers Initiative was integral to the film
captain-marvel-ss-main.jpg


With Carol Danvers being Nick Fury’s first alien contact, his encounters with the part-human-part-Kree-part-Tesseract-energy superhero is revealed to be the thing that sparks the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent’s idea to assemble the Avengers. The development was an essential part of the story, Captain Marvel pitched somewhat as an origin story for the MCU as we know it. “Kevin Feige and the Marvel team said, 'We want her to be inspiring Nick Fury to create the Avengers by the end of this movie,’” says Fleck. Something that didchange was the decision not to show Fury typing ‘Avengers’ into his boxy computer. “We did shoot him actually writing the Avengers Initiative on the screen, and it just felt like we didn't need to see it,” Fleck reveals.

12) It was influenced by James Cameron’s ‘90s action movies
true-lies.jpg


The film’s 1995 offered plenty of inspiration for the tone and action found in Captain Marvel – as hinted by the presence of a True Liescardboard standee in the Blockbuster Video store. Boden cites “all those Schwarzenegger films from the ‘90s” as touchstones, while Fleck notes Terminator 2 as a specific reference point. “James Cameronis of course an action legend,” he says. “I worked in a video story in 1995 and I remember those True Lies standees – it was more nostalgia than anything.”

13) The True Lies standee could have been for The Mask instead
the-mask.jpg


That promotional True Lies cut-out meets a fiery demise as Danvers blasts Arnie’s head to smithereens – a move that Schwarzenegger himself signed off on – but an earlier draft had a Jim Carrey favourite in the firing line instead. “We really wanted it to be The Mask, because of the green head,” reveals Boden. “The idea is that she thinks it's a Skrull. We initially tried to get that but they wouldn't clear it.”

14) The Tesseract has been ‘lying around’ since The First Avenger
tesseract.jpg


In a surprise move, it’s a familiar MacGuffin that gives Danvers her immensely powerful abilities – The Tesseract, or as we now know it, the Space Stone. Its pivotal inclusion in Captain Marvel came during a team brainstorming session (“Do we really need to create a whole new energy source for her to gain her powers?” says Boden), and thanks to the events of Captain America: The First Avenger it was already in the hands of the American government. "Our thought was that they had gotten this thing, but they didn't know anything about it,” Boden explains. “They just kind of had it lying around somewhere at S.H.I.E.L.D., and [Mar-Vell] was able to use it to create her lightspeed engine at Pegasus. Only her as an alien would even know it had all this power, and figure out how to harness it.”

15) Annette Bening wasn’t always set to play the Supreme Intelligence
captain-marvel-bening.jpg


The brilliant Annette Bening has a dual role in Captain Marvel – she’s Carol Danvers’ Earth mentor Dr. Wendy Lawson, aka Kree scientists Mar-Vell, but she also appears as the incarnation of the Kree’s Supreme Intelligence that Danvers sees when she communes with the deity. That idea that came later in the planning, courtesy of Boden. “We initially had a separate figure being the Supreme Intelligence,” she confirms. “To have it be connected to her origin and her hero felt like an obvious idea that should have been in there from the very beginning. All of a sudden I woke up from a nap, and I was like 'What the hell are we doing? Why are these two separate people?’”

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Captain Marvel: 15 Spoiler Facts From Directors Anna Boden And Ryan Fleck

1) The Russos directed the mid-credits sting
russo-brothers.jpg


Just as the Avengers: Infinity War tag teased Captain Marvel’s arrival in the MCU, the Captain Marvel sting tees up her introduction to the surviving Avengers in Avengers: Endgame. While it’s unconfirmed whether that scene comes directly from Endgame (like the Civil Warsnippet from the end of Ant-Man), Anthony and Joe Russo directed the scene. “It’s really a direct lead-in to their movie,” says Boden. “They came up with the concept for it, and we said, ‘That sounds awesome.’”

2) The post-credits scene could have tied into Ragnarok
ragnarok-devil%27s-anus.jpg


While the post-credits tag in the film sees Goose finally spit up the Tesseract from his inner pocket dimensions, an early concept for the ending sting tied into a different area of the Marvel universe. "There was an idea on the table about having Jude Law […] emerge from his pod on Sakaar,” laughs Fleck, referencing the junk planet that Thor and Hulk are stranded on in Thor: Ragnarok, “and then have him look around and see the Devil's Anus behind him and wonder, 'Where the hell am I?'"

3) Goose was involved from the very beginning
captain-marvel-goose.jpg


Carol Danvers aside, the film’s break-out star is Goose – the seemingly cute kitty hiding fearsome tentacles and vast recesses under her adorable ginger exterior. Naturally, she figured in right from the first story meetings. “I mean, a cat, who's a Flerken, who has pocket dimensions?” reasons Fleck. “There was no way that wasn't going to end up in this movie!" She was also penned in as the reason Fury lost his eye right from the off. “Something about that belly being rubbed, Goose did not appreciate,” Fleck notes.

4) Ben Mendelsohn is a cat person
captain-marvel-mendelsohn.jpg


In the film, it’s Samuel L. Jackson’s young Nick Fury who takes an immediate shine to Goose. In real life, it was Ben Mendelsohn. “If there's anyone who's a cat-loving person, it's Ben,” confirms Fleck. “He had to do some acting there to actually express fear of the cat.”

5) The Skrull twist is all about humanity
captain-mavel-skrulls.jpg


Marvel comics fans will have expected the introduction of the shape-shifting alien Skrulls to mark a villainous addition to the on-screen MCU – but in Captain Marvel they’re revealed to be sympathetic, refugees on the run after resisting Kree rule. It’s a switch-up that relates directly to Carol Danvers’ self-discovery. “This was so much a movie about Carol's journey towards finding her own humanity,” says Boden. “Part of that is also seeing the humanity in other people, even people who you don't expect to. The idea of having Carol […] realising that she's been wrong and having to face that was really powerful for us. And if we could make an audience member also have that same experience of assuming that they were one thing and then having their expectations subverted, we thought that would be just all the more powerful.”

6) An early draft began with Carol Danvers on Earth
captain-marvel-maria-carol.jpg


Captain Marvel unfolds unlike any other Marvel origin story – from the opening Danvers already has her powers, with the film instead charting her discovery of her human life. Earlier visions of the film were structured differently, told in a more linear fashion and beginning with Danvers’ Earth life and friendship with Maria Rambeau. “The original opening to the script was a simulated combat situation in her fighter jets,” Fleck reveals. “There was a whole Top Gun-style sequence that we were even planning to shoot for a while. Even though it was an awesome introduction to Carol and Maria Rambeau – and I think it would have been fun for the audience to meet them on Earth as humans – the problem with that is the audience would be so far ahead of the story.” That version would have involved a time-jump to the powered-up Danvers in space, filling in her journey from fighter pilot to galactic warrior along the way. “But you would have already known, and viscerally felt, her as a human,” Fleck argues. “When she is uncovering her past and feeling a bit freaked out by it, I think it's much more effective.”

7) Lashana Lynch's audition made Ryan Fleck cry
captain-marvel-maria.jpg


While her screentime may be relatively limited, British actor Lashana Lynch makes a huge impression as Danvers’ friend and co-pilot Maria Rambeau – and she stood out to the filmmakers right from the off. “When she auditioned for the part she read with Brie, and literally made me cry during her audition,” Fleck recalls. “It takes a lot to make me cry, and I was hiding in the corner trying to wipe my eyes […] I talked to her about it later on, and she said, 'You know what? Even if I didn't get it, that felt good.'"

8) The memory-machine sequence was inspired by Eternal Sunshine
captain-marvel-mindfrak.jpg


Things get trippy early on in Captain Marvel, as Talos trawls through Danvers’ muddled memories – a visually-inventive sequence the team call the ‘Mind-frak’, inspired by a Michel Gondry-Charlie Kaufmanclassic. “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind […] was one of the references that we used when we were creating that sequence,” Fleck confirms.

9) Ben Mendelsohn’s Aussie accent helped make Talos more expressive
captain-marvel-skrulls.jpg


He might look like a space-lizard, with that green skin and those pointy ears, but Mendelsohn’s lead Skrull Talos sounds like he’s Antipodean. Hey, perhaps there’s an equivalent of Australia on the Skrull homeworld. It was a decision that not only helped distinguish him from S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Keller (played by humanoid-Mendelsohn, and at one point impersonated by Talos), but allowed the actor to really pull of that plot twist about the Skrulls’ true intentions. “Everybody is just facile with their natural accent, they can show more emotion,” explains Boden. “I think it was important for him to kind of be as wild as Ben Mendelsohn wants to be.”

10) Captain Marvel’s eventual name is dotted through the film
captain-marvel-suit.jpg


At no point in Captain Marvel does anyone actually call Carol Danvers ‘Captain Marvel’ – but all the seeds for her eventual moniker are sown, some more obvious than others. Of course, you have the influence of Annette Bening’s Mar-Vell, her mentor and hero, as reinterpreted by Nick Fury who sings The Marvelettes’ in response to the Kree scientist’s name – while the final scene has Danvers listed as a Captain for the first time. “You see that she was ‘Captain Carol Danvers’ when [Fury] has her file at the very end, so Captain is there if you want it,” reasons Boden.

11) Carol Danvers inspiring the Avengers Initiative was integral to the film
captain-marvel-ss-main.jpg


With Carol Danvers being Nick Fury’s first alien contact, his encounters with the part-human-part-Kree-part-Tesseract-energy superhero is revealed to be the thing that sparks the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent’s idea to assemble the Avengers. The development was an essential part of the story, Captain Marvel pitched somewhat as an origin story for the MCU as we know it. “Kevin Feige and the Marvel team said, 'We want her to be inspiring Nick Fury to create the Avengers by the end of this movie,’” says Fleck. Something that didchange was the decision not to show Fury typing ‘Avengers’ into his boxy computer. “We did shoot him actually writing the Avengers Initiative on the screen, and it just felt like we didn't need to see it,” Fleck reveals.

12) It was influenced by James Cameron’s ‘90s action movies
true-lies.jpg


The film’s 1995 offered plenty of inspiration for the tone and action found in Captain Marvel – as hinted by the presence of a True Liescardboard standee in the Blockbuster Video store. Boden cites “all those Schwarzenegger films from the ‘90s” as touchstones, while Fleck notes Terminator 2 as a specific reference point. “James Cameronis of course an action legend,” he says. “I worked in a video story in 1995 and I remember those True Lies standees – it was more nostalgia than anything.”

13) The True Lies standee could have been for The Mask instead
the-mask.jpg


That promotional True Lies cut-out meets a fiery demise as Danvers blasts Arnie’s head to smithereens – a move that Schwarzenegger himself signed off on – but an earlier draft had a Jim Carrey favourite in the firing line instead. “We really wanted it to be The Mask, because of the green head,” reveals Boden. “The idea is that she thinks it's a Skrull. We initially tried to get that but they wouldn't clear it.”

14) The Tesseract has been ‘lying around’ since The First Avenger
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In a surprise move, it’s a familiar MacGuffin that gives Danvers her immensely powerful abilities – The Tesseract, or as we now know it, the Space Stone. Its pivotal inclusion in Captain Marvel came during a team brainstorming session (“Do we really need to create a whole new energy source for her to gain her powers?” says Boden), and thanks to the events of Captain America: The First Avenger it was already in the hands of the American government. "Our thought was that they had gotten this thing, but they didn't know anything about it,” Boden explains. “They just kind of had it lying around somewhere at S.H.I.E.L.D., and [Mar-Vell] was able to use it to create her lightspeed engine at Pegasus. Only her as an alien would even know it had all this power, and figure out how to harness it.”

15) Annette Bening wasn’t always set to play the Supreme Intelligence
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The brilliant Annette Bening has a dual role in Captain Marvel – she’s Carol Danvers’ Earth mentor Dr. Wendy Lawson, aka Kree scientists Mar-Vell, but she also appears as the incarnation of the Kree’s Supreme Intelligence that Danvers sees when she communes with the deity. That idea that came later in the planning, courtesy of Boden. “We initially had a separate figure being the Supreme Intelligence,” she confirms. “To have it be connected to her origin and her hero felt like an obvious idea that should have been in there from the very beginning. All of a sudden I woke up from a nap, and I was like 'What the hell are we doing? Why are these two separate people?’”

Talos really was that dude in this film. Breh had me dying when Fury was asking if this was normal turbulence heading into space. :DyingLaughing:

Didn't even say a word after she lied, just hit him with the headshake. :WeirdSpace:

Fury in the cut like :ChokedUpMJ:
 

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Movies have been adjusting/changing things that were based on other mediums (comic books, reg. books, games, etc.) since the get go. They're adaptions and that's part of the point, that they're not supposed to be 1:1 translations. Also, considering that the era that a lot of these books were made, which either isn't considering much other demographics out there (both from the consumers of said content and real world demographics in general) and/or are just antiquated ways of thinking and living since those times, it's only right that things that aren't that integral at least, would have drastic changes to take care of accommodations of the world of today.

You can make a point with race change of a character, for someone like Black Panther, would be a sin, since where his place of origin and entire mythos is too based and inclusive on his race for it to be changed. For someone where the race is more insensitive or stereotypically insulting, then the change makes more sense (like changing the Ancient One from some tibetian monk in Dr. Strange). In cases when race wasn't really integral or anything to begin with (such as Nick Fury being black in the MCU or Mary Jane being mixed), then it's really irrelevant if it was changed. When it involves someone in a case where those are not only not major factors, but is also even for something far more LITERALLY alien based, gender change in the case here doesn't really fukking matter.

you aint have to write all that because my point still stands.. i hope people and critics keep that same energy since it seems the leeway mcu films get is astounding.. just saying

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But you know Mamoa has some pull. He tests extremely well at comic-cons with geek boys and women. He's got sex appeal. I'm not saying he was the only factor, but I think he was a major draw.



The script writers were savvy with WW. By having Chris Pine/Trevor as a romantic interest and helping her save the day plus making her naive and kind-hearted balanced out her power. If Wonder Woman hadn't had a love interest or been shown to be naive and sweet, she would have been called a Mary Sue or overbearing. I feel like WW played up her naivete and her love for Trevor to emphasize she wasn't some man hating feminist icon. Personally, I think those were weaknesses of the film, but it was a manipulation to sell the character to dudes who don't like women who have powers. Gal Gadot being 100 times prettier than Brie helps too.



Perhaps, I'll concede it may have been overall packaging as well. I just didn't think Aquaman was packaged that great to override the flaws. It as OK! But people making it out to be like a WS level of superhero films are ridiculous.



That's all I'm saying!

doing your best to derail the thready by trying to subtley shyt on AquaGOAT and WW isnt gonna make this trash of a film any better dikkhead..

got some nerve to praise this film and say its better than WW , like critics wasnt hammering Aquaman with some of the most ridiculous complaints ever so nah leep that shyt brehh.. DC solos have been homeruns and far better than majority of the mcu.. you dont gotta always defend trash
 

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See you in April, clown
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you thought i wasnt seeing endgame ?? lmaoo what kind of fakkit are you ??

i've left reviews on every mcu film ive watched.. feel free to read them since you tryna play coy..

ive been in the endgame thread championing it. im not a blind dikkeater like you, hope disney pays you well for your stanning.. idiot
 

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Box Office: 'Captain Marvel' Zooms Past $500M in Global Ticket Sales

Captain Marvel — the first female-led superhero pic from Marvel Studios and Disney — crossed the $500 million mark at the worldwide box office Tuesday, less than a week after it began rolling out in cinemas across the globe.

The movie's cume through Monday stood at $490 million, including $164.3 million domestically and $325.6 million overseas. Captain Marvel is now virtually assured of finishing its run with $1 billion or more in global ticket sales.

Over the weekend, it scored the sixth-best worldwide start of all time with north of $455 million, including $153.4 million in North America and more than $303 million overseas, which repped the fifth-best foreign launch of all time (the movie began unfurling in some markets midweek on March 6). On Monday, Captain Marvel collected another $33 million globally.

China leads all international markets with $95 million, followed by South Korea ($25.3 million), the U.K. ($18.1 million), Brazil ($14.7 million), Mexico ($13.7 million), Australia ($12 million), Indonesia ($11.8 million), Russia ($11.3 million), France ($9.6 million), Germany ($8.4 million), India ($7.7 million), Thailand ($7 million) and other ($91 million).

In summer 2017, DC and Warner Bros.' Wonder Woman made box office history in debuting to $103 million in North America, proving that a female-led superhero pic could do huge business. The film, starring Gal Gadot, topped out at $821.8 million, including $412.6 million domestically and $409.2 million.

Captain Marvel, costing $150 million to make before marketing, is the 21st title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which, as of Monday, has collected more than $18 billion at the global box office.
 

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doing your best to derail the thready by trying to subtley shyt on AquaGOAT and WW isnt gonna make this trash of a film any better dikkhead..

got some nerve to praise this film and say its better than WW , like critics wasnt hammering Aquaman with some of the most ridiculous complaints ever so nah leep that shyt brehh.. DC solos have been homeruns and far better than majority of the mcu.. you dont gotta always defend trash
The nerve :mjlol:
marveL should call up DC and Gal and take some tips on how to market a female lead cbm without fake cracca ass feminist agenda..

nikkas all in arms cause a disney movie is finally going through the same thing non mcu films have been getting for years... FUNNY never heard none of you fukk nikkas defend Wonder Woman when shyt was getting blasted left and right from the inception... real funny

fukk this film
the disney regime doing their hardest to pretend Wonder Woman didnt crush the buildings FIRST and much better without the forced pandering. they want this bootleg Cap marveL to be the first so bad.. and people believing OBVIOUS BIASED critics who have no shame sucking everything disney off and pretending no other film exists loooooooooooool

RT gonna be high 80's and audience score gonna be lower
that plain hoe really built like a cardboard box :scust:

bytch got no shape at all.. of course these mdu nerds would pick brie over a comic accuate version, they worship skinny spoilt milk, them clowns wouldn't know what to do with a woman with shape... thats why white women only see women as either skinny or fat, they have no concept of thick.. ugly ass white women smh
lmaoooooooooo the FUCCIN CAT TOOK HIS EYE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

SKRULLS ARE THE GOOD GUYS LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

thought marveL gang is always comic accurate.. fucceryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

bytch brought down the house of mouse.. this why you dont give white women power :mjlol:

Gal bout to save female lead films again for the second time :wow:

never seen the mcu fandom so rattled.. of 20 films they get one bad film and they're losing their shyt... the film isnt even rotten its 81 on RT ..wow the mouse really fucced you crybabies over with help from the shill critics :mjlol: ya'll not built for this shyt..

if DC stans survived the cold war of BvS , we can survive anything :demonic:

Adding absolutely nothing to this thread but Marvel vs DC posting smh
 
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