of Always recast the most iconic American comic book characters along with black actors, embracing him against a supervillain who is violently angry with his unnaturally reddish skin tone. But it’s in the trailer for New Captain America: Brave New World, released to America run by Trump, a tumultuous Trump that’s itchy due to another culture war.
If Marvel had been looking for some attention to rekindling that plagued film franchise, it seems that it’s found it, but it’s not necessarily a good kind. If nothing else, the image of a fierce red super rising from behind the president’s podium and destroying the White House would certainly trigger a response. His casting has already infuriated certain brackets on social media as Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson picks up the star-spangled shield handed to him by Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers. Dei Hire! ”; “It sounds like another awakened disaster from Hollywood.” “Boy, did you not get a memo? America voted for Trump – your film is dead on arrival.” It’s a wonder Trump hasn’t signed an executive order banning the film yet. is.
Mackie gave his enemies more ammunition when he told the Italian press a few weeks ago: Again, as fans have pointed out, whether you’re the predecessor in Mackie’s role or you make a very similar comment when Chris Evans was promoting Captain America, you’re not. I can imagine the reaction. That’s it. This is not a flag-waving movie,” Evans said in 2011. Mackie had to return his comment on Instagram the next day. Hero Like Cap is a lifelong honor. ”
These are not the only battles that new Captain America has been involved. Also attracting attention is Ruth Bat Seraph, a minor character in the film, played by Israeli actor Silahas. In the original manga, Sabla was “the first Israeli superhero.” A mutant with a superpower that was previously a Mossad agent. She had made a bit of a transformation for the film. They are no longer mutants or Mossad agents, they are very combat ready. In a joint letter, some Palestinian cultural groups said, “By reviving this racist character in all ways, Marvel promotes the brutal oppression of Israeli Palestinians.” is seeking a boycott of the film, with pro-Palestinian protesters picketing the Hollywood premiere this Tuesday, embracing the signs saying, “Disney will support genocide.”
As if that wasn’t enough, the brave New World is plagued by rewrites, reports of re-shooting, and re-organizations. William Hart, who will play US President Thadeus Ross, passed away in 2022 and had to replace Harrison Ford. It was originally scheduled to be released in May 2024. According to one insider, he went through three test screenings at the end of last year and was still receiving negative feedback. The filmmakers denied this, but director Julius Ona admitted: There’s something you’re trying to refine and the story evolves. ”
Without these delays, the film could have come out in the late Biden era, not the first few weeks of Trump 2.0 fever. At least they changed the title – the original Captain America: The New World Order may have been too much for conspiracy theorists to deal with.
It was somehow inevitable that this would all fall on Captain America, not the other superheroes. He is always the moral conscience of Marvel’s universe, and, by extension, a nation. The character was created in 1940 by Jewish authors Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. It probably worked out as a wartime propaganda tool – the United States actually took part in the war a year later. The cover of Question #1, which showed Captain America’s Sosing Adolf Hitler on his jaw, conveyed exactly where his loyalty lies. Now, 85 years later, we found him instead serving as the fictional US president in his jaw. And this is when real presidents are happy to eat with white supremacists and Nazi sympathizers like Nick Fuentes and Kanye West (with recent X’s post, “I’m a nazi” should be declared). Needless to say, Trump’s ubiquitous troll Elon Musk, who did nothing to correct the impression he had given the Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration a few weeks ago. I wonder who the real good guy is.
Over and over again, it depends on Captain America to understand this. While other Marvel films have gaded in the realm of weightless fantasy (Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool), Captain America’s films often reflect off-screen political reality – and he The slickly patriotic events (often worn by Trump supporters, or even photographed himself with Trump), Cap feared against his government. There were none.
So far, it’s worth re-searching the saga. Captain America of Origin Movie: Released in 2011, First Avengers was given the Serum of Steve Rogers (Evans) to create an experimental superhero in the 1940s, and was transformed into a wartime propaganda mascot We have explained how to eliminate the following. In 2014’s The Winter Soldiers, Rogers discovered that today, thawing the US was about to embark on a global surveillance regime that predicts and preemptively eliminates threats. This was the era of Edward Snowden’s leaks, so it wasn’t too difficult to engulf the elements of paranoid plot. But the good old hat didn’t have it: “This is not free – it’s terrifying,” he said. He was right: later made the US government permeated the neo-Nazi organization Hydra. Again, it’s a concept that’s no longer difficult to swallow.
And on his side in his fight to rule out the government was Falcon, aka Falcon, a modern-day Iraq war veteran who became friends with Mackie’s character, Sam Wilson, aka Rogers. Captain America in 2016: Civil War, Rogers and Wilson again dropped out with the authorities, refusing to agree to surveillance of “enhanced individuals.” They trusted their own judgments more than those of politicians.
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All the Conquered Avengers: Endgame of 2019 has Evans’ Captain America retired and handed the shield to Mackie’s Falcon. The Saga then headed towards racial politics and black history. In his small screen spinoff Falcon and Winter Soldier, Falcon gives the government a shield. “It feels like it belongs to someone else,” he says. Not only does he think of himself unworthy, but his patriotism towards a country that enslaved his ancestors and discriminated against is naturally at odds with conflict. Another black character told him: Sure enough, the new white Captain America is anointed: John Walker, played by Wyatt Russell. However, to shorten the long story, he turns out to be unworthy and Wilson is eventually caught up in the shield again.
Politics was very important in the minds of the Russo brothers who co-directed Winter Soldiers, the Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. “These films are very important about what has happened in this country over the last four years,” Joe Russo told me in 2021. These films were so important that they could affect helping people make better decisions. We thought they were truly powerful tools at the right time exactly. ”
A brave new world should satisfy fans who wanted a political action thriller along the lines of winter soldiers, and there are no people in space from parallel universes. Mackie’s fledgling Cap initially agrees to work with Ford’s new president, but eventually fails to comply with the orders and goes rigged again to investigate the plot. Despite the raging “open” of the Hulk and the president’s surviving attempts to assassinate, Ford’s character is no such thing as Trump’s. He cares about international cooperation and has the head of black women’s security. Air Force 1. Depending on how you view it, this is either a dodged bullet or a punch. But the president outsources technology and military innovation to a shifty, incompetent genius scientist, who is described as “his own personal think tank” – reminds me of someone?
I don’t know how this will play in today’s film landscape. Marvel films have been a pioneer of Hollywood’s representatives in recent years, but this has not been translated into box office success recently. Recent film outings like The Eternals and the Marvels – neither of which was directed or centered by white men, but opposed by some fans (especially the fierce “all awakened” brigade). I met some critics (not really) very good). Meanwhile, the “Multiverse” storyline, which is confusing with small screen derivatives pondering the Marvel franchise (Loki, Wandavision, MS Marvel, She-Hulk, etc.) and confused “The Multiverse” storyline has turned off even more viewers. It says that Marvel’s only box office success in recent years was the more flip and gross Deadpool & Wolverine (led by two white people).
The message is probably: In an era where superheroes praise the film for representation, rather than feeling too realistic and political, they were killed by Trump’s anti-DEI warrants. It appears that Marvel is hedging that bet. Next is the Thunderbolt in April. It’s the first outing of a new bunch of (overwhelmingly white) superheroes, including Florence Pugh and Wyatt Russell’s John Walker.
But in the end, Mackie was right when Captain America said it wasn’t about “America.” Unlike cosplaying Trump supporters, he is more faithful to American values than the flag, and he often has to remember his people what those values are, rather than his long history. Not there. A comic book story (if that’s the case… #44), Captain America in the 1940s woke up in 1984, where he persecutes minorities and promises to make America great again. I found the president. Cap doesn’t put it in uncertain terms: “Without that ideal – everyone’s commitment to freedom, America is garbage! Not because America was great, but because it was vulnerable; Fighting Adolf Hitler! I knew that freedom could be as easy to smell as here as Nazi Germany! “Maybe they’ll have to do with the next movie if there’s one movie, then it’s Maybe you can use a storyline.
This article was revised on February 14th, 2025. Falcon character Anthony Mackey plays Sam Wilson, not Jackson like in his previous version.
