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08 February 2011

The Captain America Teaser

Written by Katie Schenkel
Movie Preview Captain America, Chris Evans, Marvel, Red Skull, Super Bowl, Trailers 2 Comments

Well, if you watched the Super Bowl this past weekend, you probably already saw this video this weekend. Thanks to a lack of sleep and watching a particular exhasuting movie (which will be reviewed this week), I went to bed super early and missed the whole game and all the ads that went with it. Thanks to going to sleep early, I woke up super early on Monday morning and got caught up pretty quickly with all the different commercials… and the game of course.

If you were like me and didn’t watch the game, check out the first peek of Captain America.

This trailer is super short, so that isn’t much to saw about it other than it is pretty reminiscent of the Indiana Jones style as far as costumes (which makes sense, considering WWII).


Still, this trailer got me thinking. Captain America wasn’t really one of the superheroes I knew well as a kid. Looking at the trailer from what I know now about the character, I can’t help but think that his origin is a little sick. Normally a superhero gets his/her horrific powers from some evil organization or from good meaning scientists whose experiment goes awry. Captain America was created by the American Government, who knew exactly what they were doing. At the time the Cappin’ was created, this didn’t seem so sinister (fighting Nazis probably helped), but it’s kind of messed up. I have to wonder if contemporary audiences (especially fledgling comic book fans) will be able to relate to both him and to this version of our government. Will Captain America even be compelling as a person?

That being said, I still think the costume design for the Captain’s suit is stellar and the flash we saw of Red Skull looks seriously intimidating.

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For fans of the Nazi-asskicker, what are your thoughts? Are you excited about the film? Are your worries the same as mine?

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  1. AtomWise Reply to AtomWise to AtomWise" aria-label=' Reply to AtomWise to AtomWise'> Reply to AtomWise
    February 8, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    I'm a little disappointed that the lab equipment looks so high tech. It looks like it could come from our century, not 1939! So that's frustrating.

    Captain America was certainly a form of propaganda [America, fuck yeah!] so I'm curious if the movie will have the same effect?

    I don't know if your worry about audiences not relating to Capt America will happen or not. If they do some character development correctly I think teenagers will relate really well (body's changed, what do I do with this new body/powers?).

    One thing I thought was interesting is what would've happened if the studio had considered Joss Whedon write or be involved in this? He's very anti-government/establishment, so to see where he would have taken the story. But I digress…

  2. Parallax207 Reply to Parallax207 to Parallax207" aria-label=' Reply to Parallax207 to Parallax207'> Reply to Parallax207
    February 9, 2011 at 1:03 am

    I'm excited… But I need more than a few quick cuts…

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