Fri 30 Jul 2010
Fighting For Post-Modernism, Reparations And International Law!
Posted by Sean Higgins under Bother , Land of the fake free , Mirth and laughterNo Comments
James Lileks offers his two cents on the upcoming Captain America movie and how Hollywood will, ahem, “update” the character:
Then you hear the movie is set during World War II, and you relax. That was the Good War, after all. It has the Tom Hanks seal of approval (the European part, anyway). Sure, Eva Braun will probably look like Sarah Palin, and Hitler will probably tell the rest of Europe they are either with him or with the Bolsheviks, but it’ll be okay. We have permission to be patriotic about World War II.
Sorry. “We’re sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers,” said Joe Johnston, whose past directing credits include Jurassic Park III and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. “He’s a guy that wants to serve his country but he’s not a flag-waver. We’re re-interpretating, sort of, what the comic-book version of Steve Rogers was.” Johnston further explained: “He wants to serve his country, but he’s not this sort of jingoistic American flag-waver.”
What a relief! They waved flags at the Nuremberg rallies, you know. The fact that he mentions the absence of waving flags twice suggests he’s nervous about the project’s inherent problem for Hollywood: How do you make a movie about Captain-frackin’-America without affecting international box-office?
Read the rest here.
