AS CARRYOVER INFLUENCE ON UPCOMING 'CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR'
Collider's Matt Goldberg was among a large group of reporters that visited the set of Captain America: Civil War in May of 2015, where they were able to discuss the film with writers/directors Joe and Anthony Russo, who mentioned that the De Palma influence they spoke of regarding their previous Captain America film is present in the current one, as well:Something I really loved about the commentary you guys did on Winter Soldier was you kept listing all the films and directors that influenced a certain sequence or how you broke a story or how you shot something, I was wondering if you could talk about some of the films that helped influenced how you approached this one.ANTHONY: In general, just as a framing we always thought about Winter Soldier very specifically as a political thriller. This movie we think of more as a psychological thriller. It’s connected to what we’re doing in Winter Soldier, but it evolves into a more sensitive, complicated character thriller. Again, I think based upon the fact we’re dealing with our protagonists clashing with one another.
JOE: The movies we’ve been referencing a lot on this one are Se7en, weirdly. We like smashing genres into each other, so if you can find something that’s really idiosyncratic in respect to superhero genre and you can smoosh it into it you usually wind up with something fresh and different. Se7en, Fargo, just as far as we’re not making comparisons in terms of quality we’re just talking influences, The Godfather, because that’s a sprawling film with a lot of characters that tells very intricate stories. Each character has an arc. What else?
ANTHONY: De Palma is also.
JOE: De Palma is the one carry over between both movies, because he’s so good at tension and empty space. Trying to think of who else…
ANTHONY: It’s hard to talk about it because then you give stuff away. We could probably talk about 100 of them.
JOE: We were referencing this sequence as our Rumble Fish sequence.
ANTHONY: We’ve been also referencing westerns a lot as we start to think about these character showdowns.