The First Avenger gave us the origin story of Captain America with a naive take on Nazi super villains, the organisation Hydra.
The Winter Soldier
told us the story of surveillance vs. individual freedom, but ruins the theme by
having Hydra literally take the role of a scapegoat.
Civil War takes on
Information warfare & Psychological warfare. How easily peoples’ perception
regarding facts can be altered, when you mold the story. After all, you don’t
need to search far in the internet, to see how news can have drastically
altered viewpoints, because we influence facts into what we want to believe,
and make them real for us.
With information
warfare already screwing our viewpoints, it doesn’t take much to affect our
psychology and have people in a circle of cynical violence. This cycle can
never be broken, until the people part of the chain themselves, will finally leave
it all behind and end the escalation.
This is why Civil War
is the best out of the three because we can all relate into this screwed
perception of information and the way people act around this, it’s what makes
the villain all too real.
Now I’m not sure whatever
I am onto something or simply being overanalysing, but has it been a deliberate
and chosen decision to make Iron Man the successful sympathetic villain in
Marvel’s movies?
Or has it been a
happy accident that began with Iron Man 3, continued with Age of Ultron and now
culminated with Civil War that makes it look like such a genius story to tell?
We don’t know has
this been done on purpose and we possibly will never learn that either, but to
me, it was one of the best decisions they took when making Civil War and what
makes this the cherry on top, the crown jewel accomplishment of the Captain
America trilogy.
I want to believe
this is the case. Robert Downey Jr. ensured a bigger role in the movie, this
would also mean the screenwriters and directors had to come up with a lengthier
story involving Iron Man, which would mean they definitely had the time to see
what would be the next step for Tony Stark after the Age of Ultron.
Again it doesn’t
truly matter whatever it was a stroke of pure genius or a happy accident, I’m
just happy about it.
