Impact on the MCU: It’s the first team-up of characters that has been building to this moment. After a misfire, the Avengers Initiative eventually culminates with Captain America leading Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye, and the Black Widow in defense of New York. Selvig to open a portal so the Chitaurai army can help him subjugate Earth. It features Captain America in a prominent role as Nick Fury’s SHIELD works to retrieve the Tesseract, which Loki has stolen, who forcibly recruits Dr. The Avengers is the culmination of the MCU’s Phase One. The Avengers – Major RoleĬast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Renner, Cobie Smulders, Samuel L Jackson, Clark Gregg, Stellan Skarsgard.Įnd Credit Scenes: Introduction of Thanos The film introduces us to the Tesseract, which will become pivotal in multiple films as one of the Infinity Stones. Impact on the MCU: It cannot be understated, but Steve Rogers as Captain America is the First Avenger. He makes his escape to find himself in modern-day NYC, where Nick Fury informs him he has been asleep for 70 years. Rogers then wakes in what appears to be a 1940s-styled hospital room, but he’s listening to a baseball game broadcast on the radio he attended. Schmidt is sucked into the Tesseract during the ensuing fight, and Rogers crashes the plane into the Arctic to prevent the weapons from being used. The movie’s conclusion has Captain America boarding Schmidt’s aircraft filled with WMDs to stop it from being used on Allied cities. The rescued forces are then recruited into a special commando unit to attack Hydra bases. He convinces Howard Stark and Agent Carter to fly behind enemy lines, where he rescues Barnes and other captured Allied forces. While on tour in Italy, he learns his friend Bucky is MIA after battling Hydra forces. With the formula lost, Stever Rogers assumes the Captain America mantle and goes on USO tours to sell war bonds. Erskine is assassinated by a Hydra agent who steals but ultimately loses the super-soldier serum. He is eventually selected to become the first to be injected with the serum after selflessly jumping on a grenade, not realizing it was a test.Īfter the experiment’s success, Dr. Abraham Erskine notices his attempt to get through the enlistment process and judges he has the character to get accepted into the super-soldier program. That was perfectly fine with Evans, who was not keen on having another actor involved in creating the iconic role.Our first introduction to Steve Rogers is a frail kid from Brooklyn who is constantly denied the chance to enlist to fight in WWII. As hard as he tried to watch Chris and duplicate the movements, it just wasn’t the same.” “The body double could not move like him. “Chris moves in such a unique way he doesn’t move like anybody else,” Johnston told Reuters. But he quickly realized it wouldn’t work for other sequences. Like Fincher in “Social Network,” director Johnston initially hired a body double and used the head replacement system in a scene where Steve Rogers was lying on a table. On “Captain America,” there was no way to take a year off because its backers at Marvel Studios have been on a tight schedule rolling out their superheroes one by one - including the recent “Thor” - so audiences will be familiar with most of them when they join forces in next summer’s “The Avengers.” REUTERS/Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios After Evans put on 15 lbs of muscle for the role, the film's makers used a "shrinking" technique and computers to basically erase portions of Evans' strong physique and legs, onscreen. Actor Chris Evans in scenes from "Captain America: The First Avenger".
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