That’s likely to change this summer when the rakish blond thesp stars alongside Heath Ledger in Columbia Pictures’ “A Knight’s Tale,” directed by Brian Helgeland (“Payback”).īettany plays the poet Chaucer, a role Helgeland wrote for him. 1,” from “The Acid House” helmer Paul McGuigan, got Bettany an actor nomination at the British Independent Film Awards, which will be held this week.īut not much of his work has been seen widely Stateside. The trickster god is already a beloved MCU icon, but this is the first time he’ll take center stage as an antihero as opposed to being a supporting player in his brother’s story or a full-blown villain.Paul Bettany has done a lot of good theater, quite a bit of TV and had roles in several film fest travelers, including “Land Girls” (Sundance, 1998) and “After the Rain” (Seattle, Toronto 1999). Hopefully, the trajectory of Marvel’s streaming series improving their characters and therefore retroactively improving their previous movies will continue into Loki. Sam and Bucky only share a handful of scenes in these movies, but it’s always a joy to see Mackie and Stan’s chemistry at work. Throughout Civil War, Steve sticks his neck out for Bucky to the end of the line, which was always a powerful story about friendship, but now plays as even more powerful after The Falcon and the Winter Soldier hammered home just how much Steve means to Bucky and how much he’ll miss him now that he’s gone. Bucky has been Steve’s best friend since childhood, but Sam was a very solid replacement when Bucky was a cold-blooded assassin brainwashed by Hydra. Infinity War reveals that Sam, along with Black Widow, went off the grid to fight with Steve as the Secret Avengers over the Sokovia Accords debacle. In Civil War, Sam goes with Steve to Peggy’s funeral for emotional support. Sam and Bucky’s fears about Steve’s legacy in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier have retroactively reinforced their friendship with him in the Infinity Saga. In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the title characters have more character-specific banter, like Sam complaining about Bucky doing “the staring thing” or Bucky’s deadpan clarification that Sam means the Avengers when he says “our friends,” not the Nazis. In the movies, the two just barb each other with general insults, like “I hate you,” carried entirely by Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan’s impeccable on-screen chemistry. The series’ Sam/Bucky dialogue is much better-written than in the movies. Sam and Bucky’s brief interplay in Civil War is much more fun to watch now that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has better established their buddy cop dynamic. Some of their falling-in-love scenes in Civil War heartbreakingly foreshadow their coming-to-terms-with-death scenes later down the line. Wanda and Vision’s dialogue in Civil War and Infinity War isn’t as sharply written as it is in WandaVision, but after the show emerged as one of the surprise TV hits of the year, it’s great to just see Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany performing scenes together. WandaVision was a love story told from the perspective of grief, which is rarely explored in the media (especially in child-friendly media), but is nonetheless important to discuss as a difficult reality. In Wanda’s TV world, she reconstructs Vision based on what she misses about him, like his dry humor, which gave fans a closer look at their relationship than any other romantic entanglement in the MCU. While Civil War writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely always focused on the technicality that they both got their powers from the Mind Stone – a pretty thin view of star-crossed love – Schaeffer and her team dug a lot deeper into Wanda’s genuine emotions for Vision and Vision’s artificial, but still surprisingly real emotions for Wanda. After Wanda and Vision’s Civil War romance was dismissed as unconvincing (though not as unconvincing as Bruce and Nat’s toxic “not the only monster on the team” romance in Age of Ultron) and bland, the writers of WandaVision – led by Jac Schaeffer – made Wanda and Vision’s love seem much more believable.
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