Creative Writing: Thoughts on Captain America: Civil War (No spoilers)

Christian David Bauza Gomes

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Group 60

English IB 4th Semester

Thoughts on Captain America: Civil War (No spoilers)

Back in the most recent weekend after a long Friday of C.A.S events, fairs and parties, I went to my local movie theater in hopes to get an hour to finally watch one of my most anticipated films of the year: Captain America: Civil War. As a huge fan of superhero movies ever since the year 2002 when I saw the first Spiderman movie, I have been following lots of films based on these comic book characters and see how they do justice to those stories printed in paper on a much more massive visual media like cinema. The newest Captain America movie is no exception of this following, especially after reading in the news two years ago that it was going to be based on a critically acclaimed series of comics and personal favorites of mine which, fortunately, are on hands of both Marvel Studios and Disney. Based on what I saw on the silver screen last Saturday, here are my two cents on it.

The movie works as it had been advertised for months: A fight between Captain America and Iron Man, each with respective teams, over a simple decision that could both benefit mankind by preventing any more unfair deaths in low class countries but at the same time affect superhero liberties by putting a border on what they should do to prevent another violent act of terrorism from happening. One is on favor of the legislation, while the other is against it and, to make matters worse, he gets into more trouble to protect a childhood friend presumed dead in previous installments of the franchise who’s wanted by the law for murder.

As the struggle begins and grows more and more in development between characters, mixed emotions and reactions like laughter, tension and excitement from the audience can be heard or seen as the scenes go by, ergo, the cinematography and directing is just brilliant. The way the actors portray the characters makes a person feel he or she is reading the actual comic book. Apart from some of them being already known for their roles in previous Marvel films, others stand out enough for everyone to see more of him or her as years go by. For example: Nobody believed British actor Tom Holland could pull off a great Spiderman after the acting magnitude of somebody like Tobey Maguire in the original Sam Raimi films as the geek Peter Parker is or the great portrayal of the superhero itself from Andrew Garfield in the latest two installments. However, after watching this film audiences just kept on laughing and claiming how great he was and are actually looking forward to his solo film in 2017.

To conclude, I think that the combination of the mixed elements of drama, action and comedy in this film are enough to make a comic book geek and lover like myself “cry” over how amazing it was. This film is what Batman v Superman should have been in the first place. No random popular characters being thrown to try and keep the film and DC cinematic universe interesting for people in the following years and not mashing up several stories in the original comics into one, since it will only feel rushed and desperate by Warner Bros. But I digress. This film gets a 9/10 from me and I look forward extremely to what Marvel offers the demographic through the wide Cinematic Universe.