“Avengers 4” can be described as the first hit in 2019, and the pre-sale box office before its release has successively broken Chinese film history records, with a total pre-sale of 774 million before the release! At the same time, the box office of the zero point field also broke a number of records in mainland film history:
The box office of the zero point field was 179 million, an increase of 188% over the previous record holder “Super 8” of 62.7 million;
The number of people in the zero point field was 3.044 million, an increase of 77% over the previous record holder “Super 8” of 1.729 million;
The number of zero games was 32,000, an increase of 71% over the previous record holder “Avengers 3” of 18,700.
I have to make people sigh that the Marvel Universe has sharpened a sword in ten years, and it is really extraordinary. The life and death of superheroes affect the hearts of thousands of fans, and it is no wonder that Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, has spoken out to ask the Russo brothers to make three more movies, and the Russo brothers’ ability is truly breathtaking.
A week before the release of “Avengers 4”, the Russo brothers sat down with the Rotten Tomatoes crew to “discuss the movie without revealing the movie”, in this interview, the Russo brothers stamped the “father-son relationship” of Iron Man Spider for the first time, explained the root cause of the failure of the original six, and also “tried their best” to reveal all possible storylines, their efforts to protect the script, Thanos’ creative process, and why fans should be more considerate of Star-Lord.
” Infinity War is a movie by Thanos, he is the protagonist of this movie, and we gave him a suitable ending.”
Joe:
Throughout my experience at Marvel, Anth and I have always tried to make very groundbreaking choices for each film. the brother fight in “Captain America 2”; The rupture of the Avengers in “Captain America 3: Civil War”, and in “Avengers 3” we try to make a more powerful choice. There’s a proverb that you write yourself into a corner and (you must) try to figure out how to leave. This often creates truly dramatic moments for the audience. There’s no better way to push yourself into a corner than by killing half of your character.
Anthony:
We actually never thought it was a cliff. In our own brains, for us, we tell a complete story: this is the movie of Thanos, he is the protagonist of the movie, we give him a complete character arc, and then he has a correct ending.
“We do our best to deliver the most realistic representation imaginable”
Thanos is a very interesting villain, terrifying and almost invincible, and his behavior cannot be judged simply as good or bad. He was driven by the pursuit of ideals, and I think a lot of people respected his dedication and dedication to his task, and he didn’t even mind dying for it. What’s interesting about the end of the Avengers 3 movie is that he eschews all materialistic hedonism. He has this amazingly powerful glove that can change the structure of the universe and get anything he wants, yet his retirement cabin is clearly on a desolate planet.
We wanted to center the movie on Thanos and do everything we could to bring out the most realistic effect imaginable. So we started using our visual effects team very early, specifically our visual effects supervisor, Dan DeLeeuw, and trying to figure out how the technology worked and how we were going to get there. We did a lot of testing. We tested it with Josh Brolin and he would come in, perform, and we tested it over the course of months and tried to figure out the best version of it. Therefore, the character of Thanos is established methodically throughout the development of the film.
“That’s why the Avengers failed in Avengers 3: they parted ways.”
Captain America and Tony Stark are the heart and soul of the Avengers. Tony is a bit of an outgoing leader, while Captain America, like their heart and soul, is at the heart of their morals. The two of them quarreling and having an irreconcilable problem is really devastating for the whole team. In fact, this is why the Avengers lost in Infinity War due to the fact that the two of them split. They are no longer the complete team of “Avengers”, so they are not prepared for the greatest threat to the universe. The state in which the two of them are located is closely related to the core development of the story.
“Once we let Thor go to Titan instead of Wakanda.”
“Choose who goes to Titan and who goes to Wakanda in Infinity War” is all story-driven. Who we are, where we are, and what kind of character dynamics we want to take advantage of are critical. Even at one point, we wanted Thor to go to Titan instead of Wakanda, but in the end we wanted the climax to happen on Earth instead of Titan, so we moved Thor to Earth. Again, it’s just storytelling. It’s about, where are we going to create the most interesting stories? Which characters are most dynamic together?
Also, I should say that we don’t just think about who, we also think about what we want the team to do at the end of the film. Many of us know how they are going to get to our designated location. Later, the small choices made in the story will ultimately determine where they go.
We want Peter and Tony to be together, and we want Doctor Strange and Tony to be together, because we want to see two egotistical characters attacking each other. We knew Captain America was hiding on Earth, so we always felt that that would stay that way. But Captain America always has to come out, so pairing with Black Panther will be a real… Choice. After the final scene of the Civil War, seeing these two characters reunited, we knew it would be a powerful moment. Where is the safest place on earth? Apparently Wakanda. When you watch a movie, everything logically starts to justify itself.
“We want Thor to be the perfect hero in the movie.”
One of the things we love about this “alliance” story is that you can always cut into the story from any character’s perspective. We want Thor to be the most perfect hero in the movie. After suffering a terrible defeat in the opening game, Thor is seeking a way to kill Thanos. Thanos killed his brother and wiped out half of his people. So throughout the movie, Thor’s perspective is a journey of revenge. How did he stop Thanos? The audience’s mind rises and falls with Thor. It was a tough road for Thor, but he found a way to solve the problem.
Almost kill yourself.
Yes, so when he shows up in Wakanda, we’ve done all the beats of storytelling to tell you: Thor is going to do just that. This is one of the climax of the film: not only does he arrive in Wakanda, but what happens once he arrives.
Thor’s moment of arrival is based on one of the cinematic inspirations of our childhood. There is a sequence at the end of the Excalibur where Lancelot appears in battle. I always remember how excited I would be when I watched it as a kid and just tried to replicate similar experiences. Your hero is on the verge of defeat, and one of the biggest heroes overcomes the tribulation and falls from the sky to defeat the enemy at the moment of imminence, which is like the most correct moment.
“Star-Lord made a very emotional choice… Then he paid with his own life. ”
Part of storytelling is learning empathy. I don’t know if people can sympathize with Thanos, but they can sympathize with Star-Lord: he suddenly learns of the death of the person he loves the most, and the enemy is in front of him, so he makes a very emotional choice. I think it’s a human choice, and it’s a real choice that the average person makes in this situation. Of course, in the end he paid with his own life.
That’s right. As storytellers, we find that the moment Star-Lord hits Thanos is one of the most empathetic and touching moments in the story. Plus, no character can always make the right choice. If Thor hadn’t been so angry, and so vengeful, he might have killed Thanos faster than he did.
Dizzy.
He could have chopped off Thanos’ head with an axe, which would be best, but he didn’t. In fact, he wants revenge, he wants Thanos to watch him kill him, see the remorse and pain in Thanos’ eyes, but this gives Thanos a chance to reverse the defeat. All of these characters have emotional weaknesses that complicate them to do what needs to be done. We watched them fight, and that was part of the fun.
“Tony Stark and Peter Parker formed a father-son relationship… We find Spider-Man’s death uncomfortable. ”
Spider-Man is my favorite character, and it is this kid who took on the responsibilities of a hero at a young age and the tragic situation brought about by the death of his uncle. Tony Stark and Peter Parker develop a father-son relationship over the course of the two films. We thought “Spider-Man died in Tony’s arms” would be uncomfortable, and it was.
Same for everyone who went to the premiere, we expected the ending to be complicated for people because it was equally complicated for us, but we didn’t expect the depth of emotion that people would experience from that ending.
“Mark Ruffalo turned around at the theater and he thought, ‘Well, I have to get out of here before someone hurts me.’ ”
Ruffalo, wearing a hat and glasses in a theater in New York where he was with his son and his son’s friends, said that when he saw the end of Avengers 3, people at the cinema sat in the theater for 10 minutes and didn’t want to go out, and a man took off his shirt and started screaming “why.” Mark turned around at the theater and he thought, “Well, I’ve got to get out of here before anyone hurts me.” “He sneaked out the side door. The Hulk’s inaction made Mark feel a little guilty, so we didn’t expect this level of emotional reaction.
“We’re just saying that naturally the original six Avengers remained.”
Our process was to spend many, many months in that room with co-writer Christopher Marcus, co-writer Stephen McFeeley, Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios, through different story ideas, different possibilities. We explore many different ideas very thoroughly before we lock in the things that excite us the most. So, at some point, there was a lot of variation on sure “about who died at the end of Infinity War”, but once the story started to take shape, it really formed a powerful way around an idea. Then we spent months working on it.
The visualization of dust is purely about the elemental aspects of your body and what happens to it. And this speeds up the decomposition process to some extent, right? As for who went to the dust, everything is always based on the story, and in the end, we find out that the original six Avengers are left.
“There are more secrets in Avengers 4 than in Infinity War.”
RDJ (Robert Downey Jr.) is probably the only one who actually read the entire script. I think the script that Doctor Strange got only included his scenes. Maybe Captain America has probably read the script.
Part of our motivation for doing this is that reading the script puts a lot of pressure on the actors. After reading the script, you must constantly review what you say and how you talk during the interview. These movies are your character’s life, it’s everything you do all day, and anyone will have the urge to talk about their character. So we’re worried about putting a lot of pressure on the actors, well, the less you know, the less you have to mind yourself.
Hemsworth’s character, Thor, doesn’t need to know what Captain America does in most of Infinity War. Thor reads the scene of Thor, and the American team reads the scene of the American team. If they don’t read the rest of the script, they don’t know what’s going on, so it’s easier to talk to people. Even more so in Avengers 4. There are more secrets in Avengers 4, far more than Avengers 3.
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