This, plus a recent discovery of mine that Hayley Atwell, the new star of Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning, and also starred in several Captain America movies.
Have I been living under a rock? Or have there just been so many movies since then? I like Captain America when I first saw it - in 2011! Even before I started this blog. A rewatch was in order.
Chris Evans stars as Steve Rogers in this origin story set in the early 1940s as the USA enters World War II. Steve is a scrawny fellow and is declared medically unfit for service, much to his disappointment. He demonstrates his earnestness and courage in such ways that he is approved to serve in a special capacity by Dr. Erskine (Stanley Tucci). Steve is put in a special machine which turns this 98 pound weakling into a big strong man. Just like the Charles Atlas ads in the old comic books that Captain America started in. Interesting how they use the camera and audio tricks to show the physical transition.
In the beginning Captain America is used in a propaganda/USO capacity. So there is actually a Broadway style number with singing and dancing, called Captain America, the Star Spangled Man with a Plan. But Cap has bigger plans and when in Europe doing a show, he finds out about his old friend Bucky (Sebastian Stan) being a prisoner of war, he and Agent Carter (Hayley Atwell) head behind enemy lines to Kill Some Nazis.
Yes there are a lot of parallels between this movie and Inglourious Basterds. That is a very good thing.
There is also a lot of foreshadowing of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that seems very ahead of its time, even in the early stages. Hats off to the creatives who mapped out so much in the beginning.
On with the Show!
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