While the Stateside will enjoy CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER on July 22, we have to settle for a (slightly) longer wait... on August 4. Anyway, director Joe Johnston (THE WOLFMAN) has recently compared the pacing of his movie to another franchise which also takes place in the same era of the 1940s and 1950s -- what else -- INDIANA JONES!
Here's what he had to comment below.
"When you sit down to watch it, it's certainly not Raiders of the Lost Ark which is a very different kind of film in the final analysis. But sometimes when we had questions and we were stuck we would say, 'What would Indiana Jones do? What would be the answer to this in Raiders of the Lost Ark?' I've always loved Raiders and the great achievement of it was the tone and the fresh feeling of the movie. It was period but didn't feel like it was made in the period. It felt like a contemporary film about this period in the past, and that is the goal we have with Captain America. And I can say this - it definitely has an Indiana Jones pace."
That sounds like a fantastic news. To add more jubilant anticipation for the movie, lead star Chris Evans who portray Steve Rogers/Captain America, also revealed how he came to worry about the early scenes where the effects team used CGI to make him a skinny young GI before he became a super soldier.
Here's what he had to comment below:
"If something like that isn't done right, it takes you right out of the movie. You're suddenly thinking, 'Wow that doesn't look real, look at that actor' and it can really ruin it. And if it's early in the movie it can undermine the whole way the audience connects with the story. They nailed it, it works, they really put a lot of time into it. It was a big relief for me."