The place to meet Chris Evans was in an upscale café in New York.

The level of consumption here is very high, and the privacy is relatively good, and there are often celebrities resting here.

Chris Evans is not a star now, really, he is not as famous as Zhou Fangyuan, and the reasons for choosing this place are quite complicated, so I won't repeat them one by one.

Chris Evans was accompanied by two other men, whose names are believed to be familiar to many people, Anthony Russell and Joe Russell, who later became known as the Russo brothers.

The Russo Brothers were the directors of the second and third parts of the American team, as well as the third and fourth parts of the Avengers.

Before the Russo brothers joined the Marvel family, they were more familiar to the audience with "Hindered Development" and "Scrap Wood Alliance". "Hindered Development" won the Emmy Award for Best Director the following year, and "Scrap Wood Alliance" let more people know the Russo Brothers. Especially "Waste Wood", one of Zhou Fangyuan's favorite American dramas in his previous life, although the degree of comedy is not as good as "The Big Bang Theory", but when he first came into contact with American dramas, Zhou Fangyuan's love for "Waste Wood" was very high.

So, the guide tube of "American Team 2" was handed over to the Russo Brothers, why talk about the Russo Brothers first, because since "American Team 2", the Russo Brothers have formed an indissoluble bond with the Marvel Universe, and then "American Team 3", "Avengers 3", and the high-profile "Avengers 4" will all be directed by the Russo Brothers. The Russo brothers have also become the most impressive brotherly directors since the Coen brothers.

"American Team 2" is Marvel's ninth movie in the original time and space, and under the direction of the Russo Brothers, the quality of the film is not just as simple as wanting to say a good superhero movie, if you bundle "American Team 2" and "American Team 3" together, you can even taste the taste of Nolan's "Batman" series back then. Of course, if the two are compared to wine, Nolan's "Batman" series is naturally more mellow and rich than the Russo Brothers' "Team America" series, but for Disney's Marvel Universe works, "Team America 2" is good enough.

If you want me to recommend Marvel Universe works that you can review, and it is worth brushing again every few years, "American Team 2" must be one of them. No matter from the plot, the mental journey of the characters, the discussion of the theme of the film, the fights in the action scenes, and the bold setting of the plot, all in all, no matter from which angle you look at "Team America 2", you can dig deeper.

"Team America 2" is also different from Marvel's traditional superhero model movies, and has a strong realistic criticism.

The timeline of the story takes place after the awakening of "Team America", and also experienced the major events in New York of "Avengers", and Team America has become the operational leader of S.H.I.E.L.D. at this time. At the beginning of the film, the American team is stationed in Hollywood for a morning run at the Lincoln Memorial, and it is obvious that the American team has no interest in accosting beautiful women, so he flirts with a black Sam who is also running, and again and again, in circles, surpasses him to show his primitive male charm. When Sam was successfully picked up by the American team, Black Widow drove a supercar to pick up the American team to work, leaving Sam who ran prostration, lonely and cold.

The mission of the U.S. team this time is to rescue a hijacked Aegis ship, and the hijackers are a group of mercenaries. At the beginning of this rescue mission, you can see the special features of "Team America 2", the action camera language is realistic, and the two fight fists to the flesh.

From this mission, we can also feel the style of the film, which will not mythologize the superhero image of the American team like the first part, and will not appear in the previous film, the American team itself went to rescue a regiment, on the contrary, the action scenes of "American Team 2" emphasize the division of labor and cooperation, which also highlights the leadership of the American team. Just as the rescue mission was going on intensely, Black Widow actually took out a USB flash drive and secretly downloaded the information, and was caught by the American team on the spot, and the atmosphere was a little embarrassing, just like I often interspersed other clips to make jokes.

After returning to the bureau, the American team went directly to the director to complain, and after a spiritual meeting between the American team and the director, the director decided to take the American team to the bureau's underground military factory to see the three warships being built. Each of the ships here is taller than the Avengers, and most importantly, it is equipped with the latest "Insight" system. Just when the director was proud of the Insight Project, the American team objected with both hands and feet, and the reason given was actually very philosophical, that is, whether a person was guilty or punished first, and whether the crime could be offset by punishment first. The U.S. team threw a chicken-and-egg problem to the director to brain, and he himself got off work first.

The American team went to his museum after work to observe the movements of fans, and then he finally reacted, he finally remembered that he still had an ex-girlfriend after a long time after the big events in New York since he woke up. So we decided to visit her, so we know another important thing, a passage from Peggy, which was included in the second trailer of "Avengers 4".

Although the director is carrying out the "Insight Project", he has long had doubts in his heart, so he secretly asked Black Widow to copy the information, and when he wanted to read this USB flash drive, he found that he had no permission, and later he found out that he, as the supreme commander of S.H.I.E.L.D., authorized himself the power to not view the documents, and it seems that Nick's cat has affected his IQ. So Nick went to the higher-level management of S.H.I.E.L.D., THE World Security Council, and chatted with his former good friend Ouchi Ghost, Nick felt that S.H.I.E.L.D. had an internal ghost, and the insight plan had to be postponed.

The director told the American team not to trust anyone but himself, S.H.I.E.L.D. has internal ghosts, and he was shot dead after speaking, and the film has developed to this point, and the genre has changed to a half-suspense and half-conspiracy style, which satisfies the audience's appetite. The film also started from here, and gradually distinguished itself from the traditional superhero movie style in the past, which used to be dominated by characters.

For example, in the previous work "American Team", at this point in time, the thin American team has become a muscular man and is ready to save the world, while "American Team 2" throws the protagonist into a predicament in advance, so that even if he has superpowers, he can't deal with it, so that the film can maintain the realism and level it should have. The director was unfortunately shot dead at the home of the American team, shocking S.H.I.E.L.D., and the American team was invited back to the bureau for tea, and the American team put the USB flash drive that the director secretly gave him on the very best-selling vending machine before returning to S.H.I.E.L.D., you heard it right, the American team's IQ returned to the prehistory of mankind in this second. After a polite conversation between the American team and the Ouchi ghost, the Ouchi ghost decided to capture the American team alive in the elevator, and as a result, the American team carp jumped out of the dragon gate, jumped off the elevator to escape from S.H.I.E.L.D., and hit the plane by the way when he left.

The U.S. team rushed back to the hospital at this time, trying to go to the vending machine to retrieve the USB flash drive, but unexpectedly gained a friendly black widow. After that, while the two went to the Apple store to advertise, they found the transmitting address of the signal source, and staged an escape with static braking by the way. They came to the address on the USB flash drive and found that this was the former hometown of S.H.I.E.L.D., and after they plugged in the USB flash drive, the system was actually Dr. Lasso of Hydra, and this idea was played in the second month of the same year when "Team America 2" was released, and "Transcendental Hacker" was also played. Is this a two-shot book, or is it someone who plagiarized whose idea? In short, after Dr. Lasso was awakened, he immediately turned on the villain confession mode, answered all questions, and made Hydra's plan clear.

After everything is clear, three-year-old children know that as long as the three battleships are not in the sky, it will be over, you said that at this time, Dr. Lasso's explanation did not help the American team, and the same reasoning proves that Dr. Lasso is not saving the world in the curve, the traitor of Hydra. But after all, this is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s hometown, S.H.I.E.L.D. is very missile, and wants to use missiles to blow up the American team, but how can this be that the film is only halfway long, so the American team and Black Widow went to find Sam, who ran that morning, Sam is a falcon, and the three of them decided to arrest the current commander of S.H.I.E.L.D. bald and strong. But in the middle of the way, the bald head was killed by the Hydra people, and the American team was also ambushed, at this time the Winter Soldier man finally showed his true face, and the most abusive place in the whole film is here, the Winter Soldier is Bazi, the true friend of the American team in the heart of the past and present.

Finally came to the final battle, everyone performed their duties, the fights of the decisive battle, explosions, and special effects were of course speechless, but the focus of this decisive battle was the friendship between the American team and his friend Bazi, and the friendship that had turned into today's life and death. The highlight of the film is the anti-climactic treatment later, after the American team completes the task of destroying the battleship, chooses to use friendship to influence Bazi, and when the American team faces the only best friend Bazi in front of him, he throws down his shield, representing putting down the identity of the captain of the United States and returning to the original thin boy. At this time, the American team is lonely, maybe from the moment he woke up, he has felt lonely, but the responsibility and value he bears in his heart let him last until the end of the world, after the rescue, we finally saw that the American team was tired, he at that time, perhaps what he needed most was a firm and trusting look, and the only person who could give this look was Bazi.

In the end, the American team moved Bazi with true feelings, and the American team was rescued by Bazi after falling into the river, and on the other side, Black Widow and the director worked together to announce the black history of S.H.I.E.L.D. to the public, and S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed.

In fact, when you see this, you will know that the story of "Team America 2" is woven very carefully, every scene of the film is not a waste scene, every dialogue, and every character arc of the main characters can make this film a 1+1 >2 textures. The film is no longer like the previous works of the Marvel Universe, but blurs the image of a good person on the side of justice, and what the film criticizes is actually today's United States. The defeat of the pros and cons at the end of the film is not like today's Western world, where while defeating terrorist attacks, they are also suffering from terrorist attacks at three ends in three days.

Because of this, while criticizing reality, the film inserts superheroes like Captain Mi, which can even hint that we need more people with a state of mind like Captain Mi, and the personality charm of Captain Mi is the reason why he really became a superhero.

And this also shows the Russo brothers' ability to guide.

No matter how beautiful the screenwriter is, if there is no excellent director who turns the script into a movie, it will be for nothing.

The Russo brothers did not shy away from the use of juggling montage, and a large number of shots from different time and space were skillfully assembled in their hands, either to convey a large amount of information in a short period of time, or to serve the switching of different narrative lines, or to express the emotions and memories of the characters. Either way, it will not hinder the audience's understanding of the movie and will not affect the audience's entertainment pleasure. The Russo Brothers, while promoting the audio-visual and editing effects of the film to make it dazzling, also reduced the difficulty for the audience to understand the inner meaning between the two sets of combined shots, so that the audience fell into a series of emotional stimulation in the psychological identification with the superhero.

In fact, as early as when the Russo brothers directed the sitcom "Scrapwood League", they had already shown their excellent story structure ability and extremely active imagination, based on this, they changed the image of "superheroes" that were still slightly dull before, enriched the emotional connotation of heroes, gave heroes a new vitality, and showed their ordinary side different from heroes, although it was unexpected by the audience, but it is still reasonable.

Compared to "Lone Hero", "League of Legends" has reduced the expressiveness of a single hero to a certain extent, distracting the audience's attention from more heroes, but the benefits of this change are obvious and extremely successful.

The world structure of the film is more grand, and the multi-angle narrative improves the audience's viewing experience, avoiding the monotony of the rhythm and the singleness of the plot. Taking the dazzling airport battle in the movie "American Team 3" as an example, the Russo brothers not only highlighted the personality of each "superhero" with their excellent control, but also highlighted the extremely valuable qualities of the "American team" through hearty battle scenes, thrilling life and death competitions and eloquent plot laying, and added more humanized colors to him.

So as directors, there is no doubt that they are very successful.

and those world-renowned directors may not be able to sit on an equal footing for the time being, but it can be seen that the Russo brothers' guidance ability is really strong.

Zhou Fangyuan relied on the memories of his previous life, and when he chose the director of "American Team 1", he chose the Russo brothers, at this time they had not yet filmed "Waste Wood", so they did not really enter Marvel's field of vision, in the film and television industry, they cannot be regarded as completely new newcomers, but in fact, they can't find much. Chris who came with them was also a newcomer, and the three newcomers sat in a row, facing Zhou Fangyuan opposite, and it could be seen that they were a little nervous.

Zhou Fangyuan smiled and waved his hand, "Don't be nervous, I called you here today to discuss the filming plan of the movie, and everyone can talk freely." ”