Avengers spoilers

[butterfly]

First off - I have an Avengers icon now!

Secondly, EW asked Joss Whedon a question about the Avengers movie.

So excited!

When last we saw him in the coda to Captain America: The First Avenger, Chris Evans’ World War II warrior was waking up in modern times after spending several decades as the world’s most patriotic popsicle.

After recovering him from the arctic and reviving him, the law enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D. hoped to ease Steve Rogers back into the world. Of course, when he suspects something strange and escapes from his seemingly 1940s-era hospital room, he is stunned to find himself in present day Times Square.

What followed was our first look at the team coming together for The Avengers movie, and Whedon says attaching this reveal to the Captain America film was no coincidence.“So much of [The Avengers] story takes place from Steve Rogers’ perspective, since he’s the guy who just woke up and sees this weird-ass world,” Whedon says. “Everyone else has been living in it. He’s the guy that feels that sense of loss.”

“[The Avengers] is very much about people who are alone — because I’m writing it,” jokes Whedon, who has assembled groups of outcasts before in TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly — but also, remember, in his script for the original Toy Story. “[Captain America] is kind of the ultimate loner in that way. There is an anachronism to him, and Chris and I have always tried to, without making it goofy or too obvious, make him that same grounded ’40s Steve Rogers he was in the other movie.”

All that means is Captain America is the lens through which much of the story is seen. It doesn’t mean he’s the main character. The heroes in the film — Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk, Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow, Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye, and Samuel L. Jackson’s spymaster Nick Fury — carry about equal share of the movie. “You get them in a world, the world of S.H.I.E.L.D., where they fit in. And you say upfront, these are monsters. These are freaks. These are not you and me, and what are they doing here? How are they human beings?” Whedon says. “Let’s just investigate that.”

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I am so excited, guys. This is exactly what I wanted after seeing the end of Captain America - because both Iron Man and Thor were about them exploring their respective new worlds, but Steve's movie was all the backstory before he gets there. So I was really hoping that the Avengers movie would provide that story for Steve and I'm so glad they're doing exactly what I wanted. But I also wanted all the other heroes to be really important.

Basically, Joss is telling me that he's giving me exactly the movie that I want. How does he do that?

Comments

[amalthia]

Love your icon. :) I'm also really excited to see Avengers. This sounds like a story I want to see.

[butterfly]

Love your icon. :)

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I'm also really excited to see Avengers. This sounds like a story I want to see.

All the press that I've read has just been making me very interested.

[elz]

Yes! I am very excited about this for the same reasons. :)

[butterfly]

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So much excitement!