Director Joe Russo Calls Upcoming Captain America Film a 'Love Story'
Are superhero flicks really nothing but just a different way to portray a love story? Captain America director Joe Russo thinks so, but it's not the kind of love story one would assume.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is action-packed and full of adventure and thrills, but one thing that separates the Captain America franchise is his relationship with Bucky Barnes. Russo, the co-director of the newest installment, Captain America: Civil War, sees a different kind of romance brewing underneath the action. In an interview with Empire Magazine, he implies that it is the brotherly kind of love. "What's fascinating about the Cap-Bucky story as well is it's a love story. These are two guys who grew up together, and so they have that same emotional connection to each other as brothers would," he said.
The upcoming American film will again be produced by Marvel Studios and to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Anthony and Joe Russo directed this thirteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and will be the sequel to two previous installments, Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014).
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The personality who plays Barnes, Sebastian Stan, has another way of labelling the upcoming blockbuster, "I think it's easy and generalizing it to say that they're lovers, when you're forgetting that one has a lot of guilt because he swore to be the protector of the other, the father figure or older brother so to speak, and then left him behind," the actor said. In essence, he looks at it as some kind of brotherhood.
But don't get too excited about anything like bromance in his film because it's not like that. Just like the previous Captain Americas, Civil War promises stunning visual effects and a very intriguing, if not dramatic, ending. Well, nothing's really "not fun" for fans of the Marvel universe.
