![]() ![]() The directors seem almost apathetic about the lore of this galactic conflict, preferring to get past the makeup fest so they can turn their attention to the silly stuff. (The formidable Djimon Hounsou is one of them, but he’s given virtually no character to play). They gloss over a lot of the alien hooey and don’t even bother to give most of the Kree brotherhood any personality. The script moves things along so swiftly that the back-story of Danvers’ strained relationship with her father gets covered in a breathless, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment.īoden and Fleck don’t seem all that interested in the excessive backstory about the Kree warring with the Skrulls either. Their script, written with Geneva Roberston-Dworet, truncates Danvers’ youthful flashbacks that would normally take up a ton of screen time in other Marvel movies. In fact, Boden and Fleck seem far less interested in a lot of the typical beats of a Marvel origins stories as evidenced by their minimalizing of the time they spent on such tropes. She is far more interesting when she’s down-to-earth, literally and figuratively. Much of the same comes through in Captain Marvel when heroine Carol Danvers isn’t acting like an avenger. In movies like Half Nelson (2006) and It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010), they showcased quirky characters that drove simple stories. Married filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck do a decent job of delivering the requisite action here, but their strengths lie in creating quirky characters and the loosy-goosy interactions between them. And, in some instances, more feline, as a supporting orange tabby almost steals the entire picture. (She’s the one that Nick Fury paged as he disintegrated in that first part’s post-credit sequence.) Marvel can rest easy that they’ve got another fun movie on their hands, and yet its greatest strengths are those moments more human than hero. It’s not only the movie studio’s first big-screen adventure with a female lead, in Academy-Award winning Brie Larson from Room, but it also stands as a critical bridge between the two-part epic of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Of course this pun, whether intentional or not, was too much for Thompson to ignore, and she replied, “I’m sure the lesbians can show you right after this panel.”īesides playing Captain Marvel and being a regular fixture in Marvel’s “Avengers” franchise, Larson won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA for her performance in the 2015 film “Room.” She was also awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program for the 2020 virtual reality TV series “The Messy Truth VR Experience.Expectations are sky-high for Marvel Studio’s latest superhero film Captain Marvel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Last October at a Comic-Con panel with fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe star Tessa Thompson, Larson made headlines when she was asked if she had any closing remarks for the panel after a random fan yelled “I just want to see lesbians,” and she replied with, “how can I top lesbians?” Whether she identifies as LGBTQ or not, Larson is definitely an ally for queer fans. While this wasn’t at all a definitive coming out statement, and Larson did say she picked the option she was “most likely” to do, her fans quickly got her name trending on Twitter, both to celebrate and process what some hoped to be the news that she’s part of the LGBT community. Larson joined YouTube roughly two months ago to interact with her fans during quarantine. She has said in past interviews that she regularly refuses to answer questions in interviews about her personal life that make her uncomfortable. Previously, Larson was engaged to musician Alex Greenwald, but the two broke it off in 2019. Her representatives didn’t immediately return a request for comment.Īlso Read: Captain America Returns! Chris Evans in Talks to Reprise Role in MCU Larson (whose real name is Brianne Desaulniers) hasn’t officially come out however. ![]()
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