![]() So there are many other themes that surround that one central racism through line. You’ve got the power, what are you going to do with it?” His questions really, I think, come down to moral responsibility and personal responsibility. And Sam says to them, “You can do better. But we also take on justice, we take on our sense of community through imperialism, with shifting borders and refugees, and our responsibility as citizens to community. That is the through line, because we have a Black Captain America, which is an unbelievably fantastic shift in what was a classically white iconic symbol. Do you think there’s a single key takeaway here about race in America? Showrunner Malcolm Spellman talked to us before the show about how its core was race in America, but it ended up taking in so many other topics along the way. So I think he comes to believe that community, and serving community, is his duty. She wanted him to kill her at some level. I felt like she was trying to get suicide by cop, to become a martyr. He refused to fight her in the end scene. And so even as she became more radicalized, he tried to harness the energy she had. She just couldn’t get good with the way she was doing things. And he never stopped having that counselor-head, of believing in the person, and believing Karli was actually a good person. He was questioning what a hero of the future needed to be. So I think the discussion of being a hero, and what a hero is, was always his through line. I think it all started with him putting shield away, because that shield carried by that guy was now no longer as relevant to the community as it had been. What do you think of as his ethos when the story ends, in terms of what’s important, or who he is? All of that night imagery was very much designed to to take us to the place where he was going to talk to the GRC.Ī lot of the viewer questions coming out of the series have been about what Sam ultimately believes now, in terms of all the ethical challenges Karli handed him. He really gleams as a first responder, honestly. And a spotlight passes over him and his suit. When Sam lands, carrying the dead Karli, he’s lit up by the red, white, and blue lights of the emergency vehicles. I really wanted to capture the moodiness of what night brings, and suggest the night before the dawn, to some degree. But we always knew that shooting in New York, using the lights of the city, and the lights of the cars, and the lights down in the tunnels when they go underground, would give it a much richer mood. So people on the producing side tend to prefer shooting during the day, because you don’t have to light the world. Kari Skogland: Typically, working at night means bigger lights and more complicated lighting, which takes time. ![]() What went into the decision to set the finale at night, and what kind of complications did that bring to your shooting? So much of the finale was shot at night, which is surprisingly rare for an MCU project. Whatever the new subtitle means, we’re just glad it doesn’t bring to mind hateful nonsense that shouldn’t be entertained anywhere, least of all in a Captain America film.When Polygon first talked to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series director Kari Skogland at the beginning of the series, we focused on directing: How she used camera placement to communicate the mental states of series stars Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), how Sam’s fight sequences were designed and shot, and why she found inspiration in a French drama about disability and friendship.īut with the series wrapped, we went back to Skogland to talk bigger-picture issues about the finale, the show’s moral messaging, that controversial new Captain America costume, and the little detail she’s proudest of, and thinks everyone missed. ![]() ![]() If Spellman, Musson, and director Julius Onah plan to use parts of that story for their film, we may see how the Leader’s actions affect the rest of the MCU. ![]() The Brave New World series followed various heroes through the Marvel Universe as they dealt with their friend’s betrayal and totalitarian tendencies. Marvel Comics fans may also recognize the subtitle as a miniseries from the Secret Empire storyline, which saw Hydra use the Cosmic Cube to rewrite history, making Steve Rogers into a Hydra Agent who conquers America. Given the (literally) big-brained Leader’s use of mind-control in the comics, we might see a similar plot in Captain America 4, potentially involving the use of the media to turn the world against Cap. That 1932 book features a dystopian world in which the populace has been largely anesthetized by automated machinery, media saturation, and widespread use of a drug called Soma, all to the benefit of a totalitarian government. But the title also hearkens back to a classic literary work, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. ![]()
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