avatar299 said:
I doubt it will do very well in America. I remember people actually being offended at the "American Flag" scene in SM3.
I want to see Cap on the big screen, but I don't think Cap is going to be very successful with our new generation. Tony Stark is probably the more favorable American figure today than the blonde haired, blue eyed Yankee Steve Rogers.
see, that's the problem... americans aren't happy with america right now, so to do a captain america movie, you have to do one where cap isn't too happy with america right now. fortunately there are plenty of examples of that throughout the history of the character (most recently civil war). And to stop it from being too cynical, you do it like civil war did. He still believes the ideologies that America was founded on but doesn't agree with what the current system is doing. and as I'm typing this, something like that could actually go over VERY well.
But as someone else said, another alternative to avoid all of this is to do a straight WWII movie with him being deep sixed at the end, only to be brought back for the Avengers Initiative. You could then paint him in the avengers movie as this kind of fish out of water defending ideas that simply don't exist anymore. But because the ideas he's trying to defend are good and honest at their base, he still comes off as a hero and of course still kicks major ass.
you could do cap a few different ways that doesn't have him coming off as this flag waving blue-eyed patriot while still staying true to the character and mythos.
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