Starting with Iron Man and taking us on a journey to Avengers: Endgame, the trailer tugs at the heartstrings of every fan of the MCU … which is maybe a smart marketing technique. Then again, is there ever a time when we don’t want to cry over these characters? So, it isn’t surprising that the trailer for the Infinity Saga box set is emotional. Maybe Marvel has just discovered the future.For fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there’s a kind of emotional connection to hearing the Avengers theme and knowing the journey we all went on together for these last ten-plus years. Because movies might be copying television now, but it’s television that we still pay £10 an episode to watch. Of course, by becoming an episode of television, Infinity War falls prey to many of television’s flaws – we know which actors still have films on their contracts, which removes the permanence from some of the movie’s events – but that doesn’t really matter in the big scheme of things. If it was an episode of Lost, Infinity War would be something like What They Died For fine on its own, but designed to get the characters to where they need to be in order to make the final episode go off with a bang.
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By the time the impact of the spectacle has worn off a little, we’ll come to see it as nothing more than a piece-moving episode that only exists to set up the series finale that is Avengers 4. In fact, come next year, I’m expecting people to cool on Infinity War. It’s a Gold Blend advert with a talking racoon in it. But the Russo brothers are perfect for this job, because this job is simply about moving the story along. If these films were self-contained, standalone affairs, you might want someone with more flair for dialogue or inventive visuals. There’s a reason why the Russo brothers were chosen to direct Infinity War, and that’s because they have enough television experience to satisfactorily keep all the balls in the air. Things that happened in previous episodes pay off here, and things that are set up here will pay off in upcoming episodes. This happens again and again throughout Infinity War, because it’s just an episode of television. On its own it’s a moment of simple cruelty, but the knowledge of everything that’s gone before adds layer upon layer of meaning. In one of the final episodes, Walter White calls his wife a “stupid bitch”. Until now, this sort of thing has only happened on television. The reason this moment feels earned at all is because we’ve spent enough time with the characters to grasp the complexity of their shorthand. The film can’t linger any longer than that, because there’s a superhuman testicle-chinned alien trying to murder them all, but it nevertheless counts as one of the most touching moments in the entire movie. And they communicate all this with a look and maybe two lines of dialogue. We know their history and their motivations, their thwarted desires and their realisation that they’ll probably never get what they both want. Infinity War contains a moment – it’s far too brief to be called a scene – between two characters who haven’t seen each other for years. We’ve watched these characters grow and change and their relationships evolve in several ways. 02:19 Watch the trailer for Avengers: Infinity Warīut, with 10 years of context behind it, Infinity War is deeply impressive.
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