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[scottxlogan]

Howard Stark recovers the tesseract (Captain America: The First Avenger)

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[call-me-xenophon]

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[gotham-at-nightfall]

Marvel: Phase I

By Lyle Cruse

#iron man (2008) #the incredible hulk #iron man 2 #thor (2011) #captain america: the first avenger #marvel #mcu phase 1 #fanart #twitter art #witty queue name

[armageddon-generation]

Justice For MCU Hulk: Everything cut from The Incredible Hulk (2009) that saves its characters

After She-Hulk renewed criticism of Bruce Banner’s characterisation in the MCU, I looked back at The Incredible Hulk. It’s the shortest MCU movie (1hr 52 mins) so this extra 25 minutes of footage would bring it to about the same length as The Winter Soldier, vastly improving Bruce’s characterisation, his romance with Betty, and General Ross as the villain. 

Alternate Opening in the Arctic (2:16)

The most famous cut, Bruce’s attempted s*icide referenced in The Avengers. Strong, shocking character beat to open the film

Hulk’s origin

The film’s 3-minute title-sequence condenses “40 minutes” of Hulk’s origin & its aftermath. This was mostly unscripted (Norton contributed a lot) with “points of entry” for flashbacks throughout the film that unravelled the mystery of what happened..  

In an interview, director Louis Leterrie explained:

“[the Arctic was] a few months after the incident … afterwards we were flash forwarding to Brazil … a few years later ... then afterward you were getting flashbacks—that’s the way the script was structured—to tell you the story … everything you saw in the credit sequence. People hated it … what the hell is this? Is this a sequel? Is this a re-boot? We don’t understand anything.”

Building the Lab (1:07)

Most of the cut Brazil footage is filler, but I like Bruce dumpster-diving to make DIY lab equipment

General Greller (2:28)

Ross’ motivation. He’s the true villain! 

I’d cut the 1st exchange between Ross & Greller, moving straight from the plane to Blonsky entering the office. 

Nice character-building (‘is there any medal you haven’t won?’)

Greller criticizing Ross’ supersoldier program ties into the wider MCU (Hulk as a supersoldier attempt was only later established in The Avengers) & makes Ross more culpable

Bruce Delivers Pizzas (0:36)

The girls’ dorm should stay cut, but Bruce helping students with an experiment at his old university is a lovely character beat

Betty and Leonard (0:30)

Doc Sampson!

So the love triangle doesn’t seem quite as lopsided

Bruce and Betty Talk (3:18) 

Sets a clear timeline for Bruce

Sets up an ‘ethics cloud’ around Sterns/The Leader, and suggests he turned Bruce over to Ross in Brazil

Betty is proactive. Her arc becoming disillusioned with Ross starts here. Her keeping their data in an ornate jewelry box builds the Bruce/Betty romance

“Hope comes back so quickly” is a strong character beat

Dinner with Bruce (1:30)

“It’s been a long time since I’ve felt a light” is a nice character beat: Betty’s house is the eye of the storm in Bruce’s journey

Leonard characterisation!

The Orchid (1:27)

Betty is proactive again!

The Orchid as a metaphor for their love

Bruce and Leonard (4:17)

Leonard: I’ll confess something to you if you clear up some things for me. First, I confess as a man, Betty’s lover, that I’ve always hoped you were dead. Not because I don’t like you but because I love Betty. And I’ve known that unless you were really gone, or she believed that you were… there’d always be three of us in this relationship. I dreaded the thought of you walking through the door. But… now that you’re here, I have to admit I’m very happy about it. Because I’m also a psychiatrist. And I’m very committed to putting light into dark corners, so to speak. Betty has a very dark corner that I’ve never found my way into, despite considerable careful effort. And the only thing that I know about her dark place is that you’re in it. So… Why are you something that she won’t talk about?

Bruce: There are aspects of my personality that I can’t control. And when I lose control it’s very dangerous to be around me. I hurt Betty in a way that I will never forgive myself for.

Leonard: You don’t drop your career and fall off the face of the Earth for 5 years because you have an anger management issue, Bruce. You see a shrink.

Bruce: It’s a little bit more complicated than that.

Leonard: Trust me when I tell you I’ve heard them all.

Bruce: Not like this.

Leonard: Completely honest and yet avoiding the heart of the matter. Exactly like her.

Leonard’s big moment! He’s an actual character! Learning Bruce hurt Betty motivates him turning Bruce in

Chatting to a psychiatrist about the Hulk like a real-world personality disorder is gold

Lots of work on the romance, the ‘Dark Corner’ in Betty’s mind that Bruce inhabits.

Justification for Leonard ratting Bruce out. It's implied Leonard deliberately drains the car battery to discourage Betty going with Bruce

Motel Room Conversation (1:14)

Bruce: I’m sorry.

Betty: It’s okay. It’s so mysterious, this thing inside of you. All the other scars have healed.

Bruce: Not mine. His scars heal but mine don’t

Betty: Yes they do. They leave a mark, but they stop hurting [exposes a scar under her fringe, from the Hulk accident. Bruce turns away.] Look at me. That pain didn’t last. Not knowing was so much worse. I looked for your face everywhere. I never stopped.

Proactive Betty again. Real meat for the romance, addressing their shared trauma & Bruce’s guilt

Nature’s Mystery (3:02)

Ross: Major, a great writer once said, "There are clefts in the rock, where we see the back part of God, and tremble." There's no training for what you saw out there because it's not an enemy that confronts us, it's a new power. Let loose through a crack in the cliff of Nature's mystery. How many times do you think that's happened in all of human history? Fire. The splitting of the atom. The universe unveils a secret and people recoil, cowering in fear and awe. And then comes the person who stops trembling. Who steps forward to face the flame, and seizes the burning stick and says "This will I master and use."

William Hurt gets to act. This monologue is the best dialogue in the film. Ross’ motivation is so well-expressed here

On the Hulk Hunt (1:07)

Builds Blomsky’s frustrations with Ross and motivation to become Abomination

Ross and Sparr (1:40)

Betty: I will never forgive what you've done to him.

Ross: He's a fugitive. He made choices.

Betty: You made him a fugitive. To cover your failures, and protect your career. I know what you said to him after the accident. Before I woke up, what you proposed? That's why he ran away and gave up.

Ross: His work, his blood is the property of the United States Army, and my duty precedes my personal feelings in this matter.

Betty: Freedom, democracy, our way of life.

Ross: Something like that.

Betty: You believe in so much. But we have to start with truth or the rest of it doesn't work. Don't ever speak to me as your daughter again.

“If you took it from me I’m gonna put you in a hole for the rest of your life”. Ross is the villain!

Cut the Major, but Betty confronting Ross re: weaponizing the Hulk is a strong cap for her arc

Bruce Confesses in the Helicopter

In the novelisation:

“on the helicopter, prior to jumping … Banner admits to Betty that because he thought he killed her when he first became the Hulk, he tried to kill himself. The Hulk wouldn’t let him, which is why he thinks the Hulk will save him from the fall.” 

Leonard Calls Betty (1:40)

Follow-up on Leonard and Betty. Nice moment for her

Tldr; This extended version still wouldn’t be *great*, but it’s a significant improvement from mediocre to good, especially in hindsight with how Hulk has been treated since AoU. 

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[velvet4510]

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[mythosartsstuff]

My favorite era of the MCU

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[batmandarkknightuniverse]

Iron Man(Robert Downey Jr) A Birthday Tribute

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[alirhi]

Rewatching the first Iron Man has me thinking about the early MCU, my favorite (and least favorite) characters in it, and why.

Mainly it's about why I have hated Steve Rogers for so long (and still find MCU Steve irritating, though I've grown to love a version of him that lives in my head so I can properly write about Bucky lol). I won't get into all my issues and biases right now (and yes, I freely admit I was biased against "Captain America" long before he ever appeared on my screen, but that's a whole other thing). It's late, I'm tired, and that would be a very long post I just don't have the energy for. I'll just cut right to the thought nagging at me as I watch the climax of Iron Man:

"You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play..." Fuck you, Rogers. Yes, Tony Stark has an ego, but in phase 1 he's not nearly as selfish as they later write him to be. A dick, yeah. That's part of what makes him fun. He plays in the gray and I love that.

But in his very first appearance in the MCU, we see him willing to die rather than give his latest WMD to the people holding him hostage, deceiving them (also high risk of death) to build the suit and the mini arc reactor to power the suit and get himself and Yinsen out, not just to keep the shrapnel out of his heart, and at the end of the movie, pretty sure he'll get fried and die, he tells Pepper to fry the roof to stop Stane. He had no way of knowing he would survive that and he didn't care. Stopping the psycho was more important.

Oh, and the Mark 1 suit/arc? Anyone remember this bit? "That could power your heart for 50 lifetimes!" "Or something big for 15 minutes."

15 minutes. There was a chance he'd deplete the reactor and the shrapnel would enter his heart and kill him in fifteen fucking minutes and he still didn't even hesitate because taking out the bad guys and getting Yinsen home to his family was more important to him.

There's a lot more nuance to all of this, obviously. I will never try to make the argument that Tony Stark is a saint. Not even close. He's flawed and messy and that's why I fucking like him. But...yeah. Yeah he really is "the guy to make the sacrifice play." He's done it.

Side note: most of my non-bias-related distaste for MCU Steve has more to do with shitty writing and terrible corporate decisions than the character himself. Cap stans just...piss off. I'm too tired to argue.

#iron man #iron man 2008 #early mcu #mcu phase 1 #mcu salt #anti bad writing #anti steve rogers #jic #overly simplified point due to tiredness #life is complicated #so is writing #even shitty writing #now to try to sleep

[transparentfishsludgebagel]

Hammer time!

#mcu #mcu phase 1 #iron man #justin hammer #fanart #digital art #procreate #black and white #sam rockwell #screencap study

[unorthodox-oblivion]

top 5 phase 1 mcu characters

Lady Sif. Lady Sif. Lady Sif. Damn, did I say Lady Sif? She's one of my all time favorite characters.

Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner/Hulk

Iron Man

Captain America

Bucky Barnes

Ask my top 5

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[somebaconlover]

Iron Man (2008)

Directed by Jon Favreau

Cinematography by Matthew Libatique

Starring Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Clark Cregg and Jeff Bridges

"My old man had a philosophy, “Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.”"

#iron man #jon favreau #Matthew Libatique #robert downey junior #gwyneth paltrow #terrence howard #jeff bridges #mcu phase 1 #marvel #superhero movies #Spotify

[girll-almightty]

alright I'm sick of the "phase 4 is like phase 1" argument.

in phase 1 at least we got The Avengers at the end. and we had to go through 5 movies to get to it, not 7 movies, 9 TV shows and 2 specials that got us nowhere.

phase 1 built up to one of the most epic superhero movies. and back then, marvel was barely tainting the terrain, they didn't know what the audience would like.

now they're basically the film industry.

which sure, makes sense as to why they are constantly dropping new content. but it feels like they're taking us fans for granted because they know we're gonna stick around.

and I don't know if we should.

I don't know if we should continue to watch all that crap content just because it might lead to a great thing. or because we're fans.

honestly I'm tired of watching mediocre films and shows that don't excite me, and it feels like a responsibility at this point.

plus, remember how exciting it was 3 years ago? when marvel released 2 movies per year so they kept us invested and impatient? and having to wait was fine because it was worth it in the end.

and sure they have to build the characters up for what's coming. but... what's coming? what's the big thing we're expecting? and why do we have to watch so much content that gets boring halfway through?

if marvel doesn't want to release movies on the big screen, what if they make their boring TV shows... TV movies? so we can skip the slow and unnecessary scenes and plotlines?

I'm certain I am not the only one who gave up on shows like she-hulk because of how bad they were. or because it felt unnecessary and like a waste of time. and trust me, it hurts to even say that anything mcu related is a waste of time. because I've loved marvel for years.

I'm not saying it's wrong if you enjoy watching what they put out, because even i like a lot of it, all I'm trying to say is that it could be so much better if marvel didn't release a thousand projects a year because unavoidably, some are gonna suck.

and maybe if they lowered it to 3 per year, they'd get more time to write, produce and film, plus I'm sure most of it would be great. AND the iconic marvel hype would come back.

so yeah, phase 4 is the beginning of a new mcu era. but it sadly doesn't feel as the previous phases. it's overwhelming and tiring to get through.

#mcu #marvel #phase 4 #mcu phase four #mcu phase 4 #mcu phase 1 #the avengers #avengers #wakanda forever #she hulk

[syrma-sensei]

Just rewatched The Avengers like for the 38833782199237th time, and man I'm in tears.

#that movie has a special place in my heart okay? #marvel mcu #marvel cenimatic universe #tony stark #steve rogers #bruce banner #natasha romanoff #clint barton #thor #loki #the avengers #agent phil coulson #maria hill #mcu phase 1 #iron man #captain america #the hulk #hawkeye #black widow #thor odinson

[greatcometdeservedbetter]

Read an article recently ranking the Thor movies and it accused the first movie of having a final fight that doesn’t “threaten anyone or any world the audience cares about” and bitch!!!! Idc if you’re talking about the fight with the drone (Thor sacrificed himself to end the fight without hurting his friends or the people of literal Albuquerque, New Mexico) or the fight on the bridge (Thor sacrifices his love and his glory personal honor to save the world of his sworn enemies!), that is a dumb fucking take!!!!!

The Giant-Hole-in-the-Sky brainrot is really real if ppl need a world/universe/multiverse literally at stake to think a fight in the last act of the movie is worth watching.

#thor is so good ya’ll stop trying to act like it was some kind of #bomb #mcu #mcu phase 1 #like thor has to win his metaphorical battles before he can win his literal ones #that is how a narrative is supposed to WORK #also ppl pretend like ragnarok invented comedy but it’s literally always been a part of Thor!!! #get outta here #basically what i’m saying is #people who hate on OG Thor are the reason marvel sucks now lmao

[spazoutloud]

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