![]() ![]() Like their more general action-movie brethren, most superhero fantasies are inherently conservative in nature, positing independent vigilantes as the surest way to peace, justice, and the American Way. ![]() Helmed by Captain America: The Winter Soldier directors Joe and Anthony Russo, Marvel’s latest picks up shortly after Ultron, with Iron Man, Captain America (Chris Evans), and the rest of their superpowered crew facing criticism from both a public and a government-led by Hulk nemesis Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (William Hurt), who’s now secretary of state-convinced that the damage left in the wake of their missions, when coupled with their autonomy, makes them a threat.īefore long, the two testosterone-fueled superheroes are facing off, each with their own cadre of superpowered supporters. And likely to the chagrin of Clinton and Sanders backers during this heated election year, it’s mostly absent, it turns out, in Captain America: Civil War. It was a shrewd tack that allowed the film to appeal to both sides of the aisle to the tune of $1.4 billion at the global box office. ![]() That plot gave Avengers: Age of Ultron a schizoid political dimension in which go-it-alone techno-warfare heroism was seen as both the cause of, and solution to, the world’s problems. When last we left the Avengers, reformed warhawk Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), aka Iron Man, was cleaning up his own militaristic mistakes-namely, the creation of a sentient super-robot-gone-psycho named Ultron (James Spader)-by designing a better, more morally conscious machine in the form of Vision (Paul Bettany). ![]()
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