The trailers for Avengers: Infinity War were all constructed around two moments - Thanos’ threats and the hero shot at the end. Those of you who have seen the film would have noticed two things: Thanos didn’t say things we’d heard him say in the trailer, and that shot at the end, with our heroes running towards the camera, was entirely missing.
Now, the directors Joe & Anthony Russo have explained why these changes were made, and they’ve addressed fans’ worries that the film was changed after the fact.On Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, the filmmaker duo said that they consciously kept certain details hidden, and embellished others to misdirect fans. “That shot that you’re referencing was never in the movie in the version that you saw. It was never even created for the movie in that version. It was literally created in that version for the trailer,” said Anthony.
“We use all the material that we have at our disposal to create a trailer. We look at the trailer as a very different experience than the movie, and I think audiences are so predictive now that you have to be very smart about how you craft a trailer because an audience can watch a trailer and basically tell you what’s gonna happen in the film. We consume too much content. So at our disposal are lots of different shots that aren’t in the movie that we can manipulate through CG to tell a story that we want to tell specifically for the purpose of the trailer and not for the film,” the brothers said.
In addition to the shot, fans also noticed that Thanos’ line, “Fun isn’t something one considers when balancing the universe, but this does put a smile on my face,” wasn’t in the movie. The brothers said they changed that line to streamline the storytelling and accentuate Thanos’ relationship with Gamora, his daughter. The father-daughter plot is vitally important to the film.
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“That was a scripted line for the movie that we replaced with another line that we thought was a little more specific to the storytelling with Gamora. I think he used to say that on Nowhere to Gamora when he emerged from the Reality Cloak as the aether exposed him. And I think we changed it to something that was a little more specific to the storytelling,” the Russos said.
Infinity War on Tuesday became the highest grossing Hollywood movie in India, with a gross of over Rs 246 crore, eclipsing fellow Disney movie, The Jungle Book.
The Russos have now set their sights on Avengers 4, due out in one year. They hope for the conclusion to Marvel’s 10-year-long saga to be a satisfying one for fans.
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