With his splendid physique looking none the worse some 70 years later, Rogers ( Chris Evans) has some amusing cultural adjustments to make, but his natural instinct to remain an analog rather than digital kind of guy corresponds nicely with the appealing throwback nature of this outing. Army officer Steve Rogers, had just dispatched the malignant Nazi offshoot Hydra, only to then be frozen in ice. When last seen in his own film, in 2011, Captain America, aka U.S. And like its hero, at least one of the story’s villains also has his roots in a real historical conflict, one of the factors that provides the cartoon-based characters with a bit more resonance and real-world weight than is the norm.
Notable for having induced Robert Redford to take a (significant) role in the sort of blockbuster franchise that he has studiously avoided throughout his illustrious career, the film actually uses an important aspect of the veteran star’s iconography as stylistic inspiration, that being the ethos surrounding Sydney Pollack‘s 1975 Redford-starring espionage thriller Three Days of the Condor.
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