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Marvel's future Captain America motion picture and the conundrum of heightened expectations

There are times when the weight of your own success can be your biggest adversary. It's the same for most super-heroes in the comics: the more successful they are at fighting crime, the more villains they perform across seeking to become a reputation by taking them down. With the upcoming motion picture from Marvel entertainment, The First Avenger: Captain America, the biggest adversary it may have to face could actually be the high level of expectation it might exceptionally well be facing because of the success of prior Marvel film projects.
This is a pretty effortless theory to follow along with here. With the first Iron Man movie, Marvel was just starting to lay out the foundations of its (as a result) newly adopted approach of producing their own movies which would all share a common continuity. When the Iron Man motion picture went in to production mode, there was the expected coverage and buzz on the subject of the progress of the venture, however for the most part, comic enthusiasts were waiting to see how things each and every one shook down with the finished product as well as the trailers that preceeded it ahead of getting too worked up, since Marvel had no prior established track record for making its own movies. Sure enough, the underlying success of Marvel's Iron Man feature film of 2008 also as the minor success of the Incredible Hulk motion picture from the same year earned Marvel Entertainment a few props as a legitimate motion picture production company.
Since that time, Marvel has continued to build up forward momentum on the subject of its motion picture ventures and with its plans to develope feature film projects based about a growing number of its stable of other characters hoping to observe them eventually turned in to franchises of their own. Between the release of the first Iron Man film as well as the future upcoming Captain America movie, Marvel will be releasing Iron Man II and Thor, also as starting production concerning no less than one more movie, the Avengers (scheduled for a Summer 2012 release). One has to assume that with the natural progression of more early hype or buzz being seen for Iron Man II than there was for the first motion picture as well as the likelihood that thor will carry with it a large amount of buzz because it will be helping to flesh out the Marvel feature film Universe, that by the time Of First Avenger: Captain America, the hype machine will be building to a a great deal larger crescendo since Captain America will likely be treated as the linch-pin feature film to the impending year's Avengers flick. This is noticeably a underlying source of pressure that would be challenging for any potential feature film franchise to live up to.
Not surprisingly a number of other factors will likely come in to play and should accordingly as well be put about the table for consideration.
Firstly, even if it is a safe assumption to make that Captain America is an iconic character that has been established as such with comic book enthusiasts for so many a decade as well as has a extremely rich history in comics, the character has not been the recipient of to a great extent - if anything - within way of appropriate feature film as well as television feature treatments over the years; In both movie as well as television, Captain America has been the victim of low budget movie making, suffering from weak storylines as well as (for the nearly all part) poorly executed costume designs. Examples of this less than stellar celluloid history can be situated effortlessly enough with a search on the subject of the internet.
Really, when the bar concerning a character's depiction concerning film has previously been ready as a result low, it is fair to say that it should not take a lot to raise the bar at - least somewhat. Still the typical costume of Captain America is definitely one of those that might not translate simply onto the big screen without certain careful consideration . It will be intriguing to observe if the filmmakers pick out to go with the historical costume of the character that includes the chainmail or scalemail outer protective covering, or if they instead select to go with the more fresh depiction of the character from the Ultimate line of Marvel comics that has adopted a bit more of a military look as well as feel to the costume. For my part, I believe that the costume for Captain America can be laid out in such a way as to be credible concerning-screen, on the other hand to achieve that effect several careful concept as well as care has to be included within the design development process.
Finally, the foremost choice of an actor to portray the iconic character is one that would have to be made extremely carefully. The choice of Robert Downey Jr. to play Tony Stark/Iron Man was in hindsight a stroke of genius on the subject of Marvel's part and the company will be hoping to catch lightning once again, so to speak, to help ensure the film's acceptance and success with its intended audiences. An actor that can effectively communicate his emotions while adorned with whichever costume he ends up in wouldn't hurt. I'm truly looking forward to following the progress of the Captain America movie also as all of the other upcoming Marvel motion picture projects as they advance into development.
By : Dwayne T. Drummond    Five stars rating
Submitted 2010-06-15 14:40:31

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As Marvel ramps up production on its vartious feature film ventures you can keep up with every one of the latest developments with a simple search on the internet and likely be surprised at just how many sites there are out there whose basic intent is to keep you latest vis-à-vis the new Captain America movie as well as each as well as every one other Marvel motion picture ventures.

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