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I agree that this is a comic book adaptation. And Marvel Studios does tend to fill its movies with fan service and easter eggs. But the movie has already made $1 billion dollars worldwide, so I don’t think it’s exclusively targeting fans. It’s targeting a broad, global audience. And what are the implications of that—when a movie, which is a business venture—tries to satisfy the desires of fans—and everybody else walking through the door?

Primarily, the goal of this blog is to analyze screenwriting decisions. No movie gets a free pass, even if it’s referring to something deep in its lore. In traditional terms, a story should be able to stand on its own two feet. The MCU stories are trying something much more experimental—given its legion of major characters that are impossible to develop with, say, the relative nuance of the characters in Spider-Man 2. So it’s worth exploring that, figuring out where it works and where it doesn’t—to help other creatives frame their own stories.

As for politics, we live in interesting times. Sure, the parallels are coincidental. Given the political messages in previous MCU flicks, such as the Iron Man films and Captain America: Winter Soldier — regarding the military-industrial complex and government surveillance — it’s not unreasonable to think that perhaps the Marvel brain trust may have noticed a political thread unfolding in the story that they had been planning for the better part of a decade.

Every creative decision, deep down, is a decision, one that may or may not be informed by contemporary events. The beauty of storytelling is that we each can have our own interpretation.

My goal with this blog is to understand how they get that story across.