Captain America: The First Avenger Audio Commentary:
“Same pub, now bombed. This is an interesting scene in that we re-shot it with Steve being not quite so weepy, and we went back to the original footage on this. In an earlier version of the movie we wanted to change his vulnerability and make him a little more angry or intense, but it was his vulnerability that gave him humanity and emotion. So going back to it was a good thing because it was all there.”
Captain America: The First Avenger Audio Commentary:
“[Their relationship] a tricky one too, because they have a romance, but it’s an oblique one. It runs the course of the movie in a really interesting way, and it ends up in a very interesting place, but it’s not your usual arc. But there’s always this great energy between them that you can feel whenever they’re on screen.”
Captain America: The First Avenger Audio Commentary:
“The performances are so good. I remember when we rehearsed it, Chris didn’t really act it fully, and we were all wondering what he was going to bring, until we started rolling. But, you know, he never really did that. In blocking or rehearsing, he would just walk through it, and he would always save the performance for the first take. In the screen test of Hayley Atwell, we shot this scene, and she had the crew in tears, and this was a screen test! And some extra was reading Steve’s lines off-camera. It was really amazing what she did with it. All I had to tell her was, “Do exactly what you did in screen test.” There’s a sense of inevitability about it, but there’s also the desire that it not be that way. She’s playing so much, it’s really spectacular.”
Captain America: The First Avenger Audio Commentary:
“There’s something really magical about this set. It’s like waking up from a dream, and the visuals and the tone of it work really well. It is eerie, and yet it’s real… You have no trouble believing that it’s a fake set once you realize that’s what it is. You’ve got just that right kind of sterile feeling to it, and there’s just something wrong with the windows. It really looks like, ‘Okay, they got some photographs, they researched recovery rooms, New York City, 1944, and they built a set.’”
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Ah, okay. This one’s a toughy. Cut for comic spoilers, AoU spoilers, brief mentions of Steve/Tony, and critical discussion of Whedon’s work.
Captain America: The First Avenger Audio Commentary:
“This was a new scene, after we’d shot everything else in the training camp. We felt that we needed something that showed that he could think, and that he was clever, and he had ideas, not just that he wouldn’t give up. Interestingly enough, Rogers had to disobey orders to do that. Well, he knew when to do disobey orders.”
Captain America: The First Avenger Audio Commentary:
“Chris Evans gives a subtle and multi-layered performance throughout [this movie]. It was really interesting just to watch him take a scene and perform it in ways that I wasn’t expecting. I always liked seeing what Chris would do first, without any direction, and then it was the matter of steering him slightly in one direction or another, but he really had a handle on who the character was. He plays this in a way that’s totally without irony. He believes it, and it’s not a joke, and it’s not artificial. It’s this earnestness that is so honest that you can’t help but be charmed by it. It seems easy the way he does it, but it’s a hard thing to do. It’s really easy to stray in to melodrama there, and he never does. Or to feel self-conscious about being Captain America, who is this very earnest guy and he really believes in what he believes in. And you have to believe that he believes, or else that doesn’t work, and you do every minute with Chris.”
Captain America: The First Avenger Audio Commentary:
“What we also found, is that we had gymnasts come in to do things, and Chris could do the same stuff that they could do, but it would look like Chris Evans. When the body doubles or the gymnasts or the runners did it, it just didn’t look like him. He has such a unique way of moving, and he could pretty much do all of his own physical stuff that wasn’t dangerous. Like this shot right here, we had a gymnast do this, and Chris actually ended up doing it better. That’s Chris here. He hops up on a tank and over a 12-foot wall. It looks effortless but it’s not that easy!”
Captain America: The First Avenger Audio Commentary:
“This is the moment that Chris Evans worked out for for several months. Before we shot that scene he dropped to the floor and must have done about 50 push-ups in what seemed like about 9 seconds. It was pretty amazing to watch. The best thing about that is that shot is not enhanced, it’s just him. That’s how he actually looked in every skinny Steve shot. ”
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:
“This story is only slightly finished, and this character is only slightly cracked open. And here’s your hook for Cap 3: this movie is just an introduction for the Winter Soldier, and it’s very clearly a direction we’re heading in later.”
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