“Captain Marvel” is, notably, a film in which a woman overcoming her harshest, and primarily male, critics - the ones who have said her entire life that she’s too emotional and can’t possibly make it on her own - is key to her self-actualization. Returning to an Earth she doesn’t remember, she lands on the radar of government agent Fury, faces off with the Skrull leader Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) and reconnects with erstwhile BFF Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch), a friendship Larson calls the film’s real love story. Rather than discovering powers she could never have imagined, Danvers instead has to rediscover what makes her human. When the film opens - in space! - she boasts the ability to shoot powerful energy blasts from her fists, and is more than happy to make use of them as a soldier caught in a war between the militaristic alien Kree and their shape-shifting enemies, the Skrulls. Unlike many of her predecessors in the MCU with introductory origin stories, Danvers, played by Larson (who segues effortlessly from indies such as “Room” to franchise fare such as “Kong: Skull Island”), arrives on the big screen already a super-being. “Captain Marvel,” written by Boden, Fleck and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (who also share “story by” credits with Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve), takes its cues from Kelly Sue DeConnick’s celebrated 2012 Marvel Comics run, which reintroduced the character as an Air Force fighter pilot who becomes Captain Marvel. Jackson sporting a digital facelift, de-aged 30 years to suit the “Avengers” prequel timeline). They auditioned several cat actors before casting an uncannily expressive four-legged thespian named Reggie as Goose, the scene-stealing furry feline companion to future S.H.I.E.L.D. Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck had a lot of fun pouring a dizzying array of zippy zingers and sci-fi action into “Captain Marvel,” the 1990s-set Marvel Cinematic Universe prequel starring Oscar-winner Brie Larson that marks the 21st installment in Marvel Studios’ multibillion-dollar comic-book franchise.įor starters, the pair mined the ‘90s setting for a bounty of nostalgic needle-drops and references - enough to make those who recognize them feel downright ancient - from the painstakingly replicated Blockbuster video store that Larson’s titular outer space hero crash-lands into in Los Angeles circa 1995, to the Game Boys and grunge music she encounters wandering the ‘90s MCU like a super-powered alien fish out of water.
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