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Captain Un-America? *No, but maybe Captain Not-America
<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/07/captain-america-comiccon-2010-captain-america-chris-evans-joe-johnston.html>.
The director of "Captain America: The First Avenger," the 2011
summer blockbuster that will coincide with the character's 70th
anniversary, says the screen version of the hero will be true to his
roots -- up to a certain point.
. . .
"He wants to serve his country, but he's not this sort of jingoistic
American flag-waver," Johnston said. "He's just a good person. We
make a point of that in the script: Don't change who you are once
you go from Steve Rogers to this super-soldier; you have to stay who
you are inside, that's really what's important more than your
strength and everything. It'll be interesting and fun to put a
different spin on the character and one that the fans are really
going to appreciate."
As far as I can tell from the article, the director, Joe Johnston, is
making Captain American less patriotic for both ideological and
commercial reasons. Johnston isn't comfortable with a "flag-waver", and
he thinks the movie will do better overseas if Captain America is less
of an American patriot.
Note, by the way, that Johnston thinks that being true to oneself is
entirely admirable, but being true to one's nation is questionable.
(The first idea is so common that I suppose I should mention an
counter-example or two, such asTed Bundy
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy> and Charles Manson
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson>. Bundy stayed who he was
inside until near the end of his life, and so has Manson.)
- 12:58 PM, 22 July 2010 [link]
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/July2010_3.html#jrm8951>
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