Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele
I say fuck the foreign markets. This movie is going to be awful and watering it down or adding artificial internationalism isn't going to help. De-Americanizing GI Joe and Superman did those films no favors. It's not going to be Captain America and I hope this film goes down in flames.
Well you're right that destroying the elements that make a character and a story compelling in the first place accomplishes nothing but to create a pile of meaningless muck. If you can't make money telling a story the way it was meant to be told, you shouldn't even try. And maybe that's what did happen to
GI Joe and
Superman - I heard such bad things about both that I never bothered to watch either.
But I've yet to see compelling evidence that that's what's happening in the case of
Captain America, which seems to have landed in better and more respectful hands. (Which is a good thing, since I like that character a lot more than I've ever cared about GI Joe or Supes.)
Give people a story and a character that has some substance and truth to it, and you'll do just fine domestically and internationally. Just look at the mindless action muck that does great box office overseas - I'm not at all convinced that global audiences even care all that much what a movie is about, as long as there's a lot of visual interest and action, and of course it's marketed up the wazoo.
If I were making
Captain America, I'd retain the theme and characterfor domestic audiences, who are the ones who might know what the theme and the character should be, and can tell if you're not being true to it. For everyone else, I'd make sure to include plenty of action. How many people outside America are even passingly familiar with the character, anyway?