Jackson) and Redford’s Alexander Pierce, a SHIELD luminary who also heads the World Security Council.įrom the start, screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who wrote the first Captain America adventure as well as Pain & Gain and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, resourcefully shuffle the dramatic deck, connecting important dots from before (the presumed demise of Hydra, Rogers visiting his 1940s flame played by Hayley Atwell, now a bedridden invalid), developing the enjoyable relationship between Rogers and Scarlett Johansson‘s Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, introducing doubts about the true allegiances of certain SHIELD officers and gradually building up to the full emergence of Captain America’s new nemesis, the Winter Soldier ( Sebastian Stan), whom Marvel fans know is the reincarnation of Rogers’ closest wartime buddy, Bucky Barnes. highrise offices are organization director Nick Fury ( Samuel L. The big event on the boards for SHIELD is the imminent launch of three giant “helicarrier” gun ships that can stay aloft indefinitely and are so loaded with weapons that they promise to render all previous modes of warfare obsolete. This is not to say that the film is devoid of major hardware. With his splendid physique looking none the worse some 70 years later, Rogers ( Chris Evans) has some amusing cultural adjustments to make, but his natural instinct to remain an analog rather than digital kind of guy corresponds nicely with the appealing throwback nature of this outing. Army officer Steve Rogers, had just dispatched the malignant Nazi offshoot Hydra, only to then be frozen in ice. When last seen in his own film, in 2011, Captain America, aka U.S. And like its hero, at least one of the story’s villains also has his roots in a real historical conflict, one of the factors that provides the cartoon-based characters with a bit more resonance and real-world weight than is the norm. ![]() ![]() Notable for having induced Robert Redford to take a (significant) role in the sort of blockbuster franchise that he has studiously avoided throughout his illustrious career, the film actually uses an important aspect of the veteran star’s iconography as stylistic inspiration, that being the ethos surrounding Sydney Pollack‘s 1975 Redford-starring espionage thriller Three Days of the Condor. PHOTOS: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ World Premiere Invades Hollywood
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