Captain America has a director...

[Reverend]

I don't know, there's something art deco about them that's very much "of the time".
Perhaps to use the classic design for the first period Cap movie and switching to the modern "Ultimate" look for the Avengers flick would be the best approach?

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

If it's WWII Cap, he'll be wearing more of a helmet, anyway. The wings wouldn't look so weird.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Captain America is going to be a very hard sell overseas (maybe even to a good portion of the American public), where he's generally seen as a meatheaded jingoistic thug (a cause not helped by Ultimate Cap actually being written as a meatheaded jingoistic thug) .

A good portion of the American public hasn't read a comic in years, if ever, and wouldn't see him as anything but a cheesy costumed hero.

And the overseas market, they can redub and reedit the movie so Cap's the villain.

The content is not going to matter as much as people assume it does. Hollywood blockbusters do not make millions because anyone is thinking about the plotline. Forget the "thinking" part at all. That's why bad movies like this summer's Indy make the same amount of money as good movies like Iron Man and Dark Knight. As long as there's a lot of kick-ass action, it's all good.

 

[dragunzng]

It's a matter of degree; Captain America, as a concept, is generally thought of as, as I said, a jingoistic neocon-type.
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I don't really agree with this. As a non-American Cap's always been one of my favorite superheroes, and a lot of my friends (who also aren't) American think Cap's cool. It really depends on how he's portrayed in the movie. The idea that the rest of the world won't accept Cap because he's distinctly American I think is more due to America(ns) being paranoid about hostile foreign relations. In my experience this is only really ever true when it's a case of "Proud-to-be-an-American-well-at-least-I-know-I'm-free" - ism.

 

[Skywalker]

The irony is Cap isn't the gung-ho jingoistic type. He believes in the American dream and all that, but he doesn't just blindly wave the American flag around and sing "God Bless America."

 

[dragunzng]

The irony is Cap isn't the gung-ho jingoistic type. He believes in the American dream and all that, but he doesn't just blindly wave the American flag around and sing "God Bless America."

What he said.

 

[Bad Bishop]

Joe Johnston is also the director of 2009's The Wolfman. Universal promoted the film this year at Comic-Con without him. Actors Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt were there. But not once during the entire panel did anyone mention the name of the film's director. Joe Johnston should get better props from Marvel when he promotes the Captain America film.

 

[captcalhoun]

count me in as a non-American who loves Cap and looks forward to a Cap movie by the director of The Rocketeer.

(and hopes they ditch the wings)

 

[Pensive]

Also: Stark didn't have the shield, he had a prototype. So saith the tie-in comics.

 

[Trent Roman]

I don't really agree with this. As a non-American Cap's always been one of my favorite superheroes, and a lot of my friends (who also aren't) American think Cap's cool. It really depends on how he's portrayed in the movie. The idea that the rest of the world won't accept Cap because he's distinctly American I think is more due to America(ns) being paranoid about hostile foreign relations. In my experience this is only really ever true when it's a case of "Proud-to-be-an-American-well-at-least-I-know-I'm-free" - ism.

Yes, but you're familiar with the character. As has been said: the question isn't whether Cap is a jingo neocon, because we know he's not (and I disagree with CaptainCanada that the Ultimate version, despite being more overtly conservative, is a jingoist). The question is how a man who dresses in the American flag is seen by those not familiar with the character, who have come to associate that cloak of patriotism with exceptionalist attitudes and unilateral actions. If I were organizing the overseas marketing campaign, I know I'd focus more on Rogers parting with his fiancé and the menace of the Nazis (Red Skull?) between action sequences, rather than any flag-waving 'inspirational' scenes likely to appeal to domestic audiences. Make it the story of a man going to war, rather than the story of a man becoming the symbol of his nation. Come to think of it, this might be were the title comes into use: having "First Avenger" before, rather than after, "Captain America" sort of allows for alternative naming scheme; I could see a poster with "Le Premier Avengeur" in big lettering, a smaller, below it: "Capitaine Amérique".

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman