Both while making Captain America: The Winter Soldier and then after it opened, that film's directors, brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, revealed many of the influences and inspirations they had in mind while making the movie, including Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View and Marathon Man.
So during a press visit to their follow-up, Captain America: Civil War, it was only natural that the duo were asked what was influencing them this time - in a movie with a much larger cast and scale, as Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) find themselves in conflict, with their fellow superheroes taking sides.
Replied Anthony, “In general, just as a framing, we always thought about Winter Soldier very specifically as a political thriller.
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So during a press visit to their follow-up, Captain America: Civil War, it was only natural that the duo were asked what was influencing them this time - in a movie with a much larger cast and scale, as Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) find themselves in conflict, with their fellow superheroes taking sides.
Replied Anthony, “In general, just as a framing, we always thought about Winter Soldier very specifically as a political thriller.
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