Captain America: Civil War

WARNING: SPOILERS ON THIS PUBLICATION

On this publication, we'll talk about the third Captain America movie. We expected that the adaptation could be loyal to comics, but it didn´t happen. Now I wonder: Why the movie wasn't loyal to CB (comic book)?
Answering: I will list 10 reasons that explain why this happen:


1- Many characters: The Civil War comic book is not called War for nothing. The amount of characters involved in the conflict beyond the limits of various sagas of Marvel. Basically, the registry law is approved and affects almost all heroes on American soil, so that despite the abstentions, there is a clear division sides, enough that rival factions are created with enough power to generate a conflict that exceeds the scale of its origin.
In theaters, it is impossible for two reasons. The first is the temporality. How can we talk later, it would still not be the right time to adapt the series due to a wave of massive events and characters that need to be presented so that the saga is entirely true. In addition, there is the question of the narrative line. Even though the film was divided into several parts, the focus must be clear between the characters. You can not just make a film with a hundred characters and give the same emphasis to each without sacrificing enough of the narrative.

2- Copyright: Not only that the amount of characters in the Civil War already overcome the absurd, it is worth remembering that centerpieces to the plot can not be transferred to the Film Marvel Universe due to the film rights do not belong to Marvel Studios. And it's funny because some of Fox's office in characters are sorely needed to give depth to the saga.
Take, for example the X-Men. They represent most of abstentions in the war, something bad must exist in the film. Besides them, the Fantastic Four has one of the largest arches in the saga, representing indeed a different ideological split of the Avengers, for example, be an ideological split not only on a group of heroes, but in a family.

3- One movie? : The Civil War has enough material to be adapted in ten films. Little more than two hours can not even summarize the plot and provide you enough scope to represent the range of the series in comics. Moreover, because it is a film that has a very specific focus - after all, it's Captain America: Civil War, not Avengers: Civil War - we know that the story will have to have a main focus on a particular character, which in itself ignores all chances of a faithful adaptation.
The only plausible solution to this problem would be to adapt Civil War not in a movie, but at one stage. Thus, the stage was opened with an Avengers movie, which would to some extent of the plot. Then, we would have several solo films that act as the tie-ins of the main saga, and, finally, another Avengers movie, concluding the plot and ending the story. The problem? The films lose the chance to sustain itself, and would be worth only within the phase assembly.

4- Moment: Analyzing a temporal question, it is not yet time to a Civil War film. This fact occurs for many reasons, we can spend hours quoting. But here are some of the main: characters presented, the moment the MCU and relatively recent emergence of superheroes in this universe.
The first factor relates to the aforementioned number of present characters in the film, which is still not large enough to compose the teams present in the comics. Then we remember the moment present in the MCU (MARVEL Cinematographic Universe). Spider-Man will be presented in the Civil War, not having enough story to justify the idea of ​​the character by removing the mask on national television and revealing his secret identity, just to name one example. Moreover, the recent emergence of superheroes does not allow the same building -'ll talk about it soon - the series in comics, since it is a factor that determines a number of basic changes in the Registry Act - or, in the film, the Sokóvia agreements.

5- Construction: Although the full impact of the series has been deep in the time of its announcement, the Civil War was an event that could see reaching thousands of kilometers away, mainly for the construction of events that led up to that moment. The rivalry between Iron Man and Captain America, for example, was an ideological concept already explored decades earlier, in series such as Operation Storm Galactic.
Another factor is the dissolving of the Avengers, which is something that has been done since the phase Busiek in the 90s, and solidifies from the Fall, something that was not even imagined in theaters yet.

6- Impact: In a batch of movies with parental rating that does not pass the regular PG-13, to adapt the event as he was in the original media is simply unattainable goal. The Civil War starts from the moment a group of irresponsible heroes facing a team of villains in a busy city in the US. When the villain Nitro is cornered, he uses his powers and "explodes" next to a school, killing a total of about 200 people, including several children.
Marvel has hitherto been considered puritanical in theaters, not to show some often the death of innocent people and civilians. What then say the death of dozens of children. The impact of the series comes from an intricate political narrative, something that is not very profitable for the studio, which became popular making popcorn movies with enough visual effects and moderate stories.

7- Subplots: Additional frames is something that simply can not miss in a series that could have more than one hundred tie-ins in the comics. This is something great when talking about the print media, to bring the scope and magnitude of the event and not addressing certain issues with superficiality. At the same time, it is something insurmountable for the big screen.
As I said, the right one way to adapt all the subplots contained in the Civil War would become the subject of a stage event, not just a movie. However, even so, much would be forgotten and left untreated.

8- Budget: Going into more technical details, just stop to think about the cost of a Civil War film adaptation in molds. Imagine the cache of all the actors present. Remember that some of them demand a higher price than the "normal". Then think the battle scenes, which must house an epic magnitude level never seen before.
So think of the hundreds of uniforms, extras, in art direction. In tonne constructed visual effects. In agreements with holders studios copyright of other characters. You think of all that money? Great. Add to that the normal costs of production of a film and more marketing. Even if any blockbuster is not made to pay in the theater, the mere idea of something extrapolates the insane.

9- Interconnection with the series: Adapt to specific segments of the series, Marvel would need to gather some born characters in the series, especially those carried out in partnership with Netflix, which in itself is a bureaucratic headache.
In addition to the obligation to present the characters in question for the film audience - which, remember, can not keep up with the television universe, and can not miss the cinematic experience because of that - something that already take precious screen time, we also have a part of contracts would need to be overhauled to fit the pattern of the film, which works differently than TV.

10- Root problems: As if this were not enough, we have to remember that, being an alternate reality to Earth-616 of comics, where the Civil War happened, the Marvel Film Universe is not required - and therefore not do - to adapt faithfully the publisher comic them. Thus, some liberties were created that could jeopardize the progress of a film 100% identical to comics.
Let us cite, for example, the creation of Ultron hands Stark. This not only changes the character's position in history - adding guilt to register - but also cut, for example, the role of Hank Pym. Hank this ever became Yellow Jacket in theaters. The Illuminati never would form, and Iron Man, without help from Mr. Fantastic, would not create a clone of Thor, which should kill Goliath. And this is just one example of the "structural problems" of the Civil War.
In short, for a faithful adaptation of the Civil War, we would need a billionaire budget. An entire phase composed of several films with at least three hours and less wide indicative classification, rights owned by Marvel Studios or "borrowed" by Fox, at least twenty years of planning and presentation of new characters. And immediate changes in stories ever told, including retcons.
Or we can simply embrace the idea as she is in theaters, and stop trying to compare with the comic as if it were smaller and less noteworthy. In terms of adaptation, but can be something 'bad' now. But as a movie, only we know to watch.

But in general, we had goos points, like: the film is awsome. An amazing fight coreography, beautiful visual efects, an incredible acting, the meshing of the actors with their characters, the script, and I can't let missing the participation of Stan Lee, one of the founders of MARVEL Comics.





Published by Wes