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Captain America "he's not a flag-waver"

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I debated putting this in the Tinderbox I guess we will see...

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.

"We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers," said Joe Johnston, whose past directing credits include "Jurassic Park III" and "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids." He's a guy that wants to serve his country, but he's not a flag-waver. We're reinterpreting, sort of, what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was."

Johnston answered that in his film -- which is set in World War II -- the character will fight the enemies of America but he won't be a stiff, slogan-spouting guy.

"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."

For Johnston, the imperative is an artistic one, not a commercial one. He wants a character that's more complicated than a flag, and a movie that entertains without borders.

"Yeah, and it's also the idea that this is not about America so much as it is about the spirit of doing the right thing," the director said. "It's an international cast and an international story. It's about what makes America great and what make the rest of the world great too."

Yeah, this guy is not a flag waver...

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I swear Hollywood is embarrassed to be Americans and they want you to feel the same way. I hope this movie is a bomb now, a nice big international bomb.

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part of the fun of Cap was how much of a jingoist douchebag he is. he's really not very likable in the comics, he's a bit of an ass.

even if they say it's artistic license, it's really commercial. i thought Marvel would start staying true to the comics, but apparently not.

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People here tell you straight out that Captain America is boring, well of course he is!

In the 1940s a lot of people could buy a superhero that was All American. We did not have the information we have today concerning how America has a long history of doing questionable things, just like everyone else.

What would be great: Captain America, doing everything Obama and the Democratic Congress says because they run America, and everyone knows that that is good enough for Captain America! haha

Or wait, should it be: Captain America, going everything Sarah Palin tells him to because he knows that Obama and the Democratic Congress are all Fascist Communists hell bent on declaring jeehad on us normal folk!

Since one would assume that Palin might appear topless in the latter version, I would go with that one.

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