Captain America: Civil War – BIG RANT and many plot spoilers inside (you should save your time and money and not see it now)

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Aielyn said:

Fei-Hung said:
I had a fear Marvel will switch Cap to be the bad guy and Tony to be the good guy for the film. 

 

The comics had it the other way around by Tony being Corporate America and representing the arms industry, even having a hand in the instigation of the civil war, creating a fake Thor to fool other heroes that he is doing the right thing with Cap being the liberal fighting for freedom. It's Stark who goes on a killing spree and torture and imprisonment of people with powers by creating a guantanamo for them. 

 

The change is enough to dissapoint me and have me be completely be turned off by the avengers. 

The way it's done in this movie, it's actually a better allegory. Captain America is the American government, and in his zeal to "protect", he refuses to be bound by the UN, and as a result, ends up doing a whole lot more harm than good - and if he'd just trusted the others properly, they could have gotten out of the situation diplomatically.

It's possible that Bucky represents Israel.

I could construct an entire analogy between the movie and real world political stuff, but I'll leave it there.

The notion that, in the movie, Cap represents recent times US seemed so obvious to me I am a bit surprised few others have discussed it. Damn, when the "vilain" got them to fight their asses off, it seemed to me like they (the directors) would finally make some veiled criticism on US's general position as "defenders of the world" (something which got much, much better with Obama, I'll admit it). Like in "you can do it without talking properly or without caring for diplomacy, but the consequences can be terrible". But then he not only defeated IM, he saved all the others (single handedly, it appears) AND sent a "be my friend again" letter that was meant to say "I can do whatever I see fit and everything will be fine". Hence, the message that you can be a total douche and still come out okay.

Your assertion of Bucky being Israel is quite interesting BTW.