It takes a lot of effort and power to get the characterisation, the events, the main story, the special effects and the wit and humour right in a film of limited duration. So too with The Avengers we can see that an era of fan-oriented films has truly been a success.
For the sixth installment of the Marvel Battle of the Endgame series, we go back to 2012’s The Avengers.

It was because of The Avengers that Satoshi got into the Marvel Universe, so to speak, and at the time I thought it was amazing that it was possible to put a bunch of superheroes in one movie and still tell a clear story, and tell it beautifully, with all the superheroes seemingly saving the world, but coming together to do their own thing.

Because it takes a lot of work and power to get the characterisation, the events, the main story, the special effects and the wit and humour all right in a film of limited length. So too with The Avengers we can see that an era of fan-oriented cinema has really succeeded. Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, each of these films featured superheroes that the public wasn’t familiar with and brought out Black Widow, Hawkeye, and S.H.I.E.L.D. from them. And The Avengers also really creates a sense of crisis for a major event, allowing the audience to really empathise with these reunion superheroes and create a sense of tension to save the world. This kind of viewing mood locked audiences in from the first film of The Avengers until The Avengers 3 reached a climax, which is why The Avengers 3 shook the entire film world when it was released.

Before reviewing The Revenant, it is important to mention a man named Kevin Feige. It is because of him that Iron Man, The Avengers and the Marvel Universe came into being. If Stan Lee is the father of Marvel and its creator, Kevin Feige is the encyclopaedia of Marvel. The encyclopaedia of Marvel is Kevin Feige, who was the creator of Marvel back in the 2000s because of his passion for Marvel comics. Back in 2000, Kevin Feige was promoted to assistant producer on X-Men because of his passion and knowledge of Marvel comics, and has worked on many Marvel films along the way. In 2007, Kevin Feige was appointed President of Marvel Studios and was finally able to take the superhero characters of Marvel Comics and translate them into a commercial language that the public would enjoy and embrace, hence Iron Man.

With the success of Iron Man, it became clearer to Kevin Feige that the Marvel Universe was the only place where he could make a movie. The success of Iron Man made it clear to Kevin Feige that the films of the Marvel Universe, from the filmmakers to the actors, need to truly understand the spirit of the Marvel superheroes and give them back their true charm, so that they can have a unique place in the history of cinema. So you can see that when we talk about Marvel’s work, or even about superhero films, we are talking about the superhero characters themselves, not about the actors’ acting, the director’s narrative style, or the cinematographer’s approach. And that’s why Kevin Feige’s film “The Incredible Hulk” is so good. After The Incredible Hulk, Kevin Feige and Edward Norton came to a certain consensus and decided to cast Dr. Banner in a role more suited to Dr. Banner and the Hulk, once again giving the superhero, not the actor, back his charisma.

With The Avengers, Marvel is still taking risks with the director’s choice of Joss. Whedon, seen today as Joss Whedon. Joss Whedon is a great superhero director, not only with two reunion films under his belt, but also with DC’s Justice League, but at the time, Marvel was actually taking a risk, and before The Avengers, Joss Whedon was a third-rate director. Whedon was a third-rate director before The Revenant, but because of the aforementioned, Marvel president Kevin Feige was looking for the right guy. But because, as mentioned earlier, Marvel president Kevin Feige was looking for the right people, filmmakers who were familiar with the superhero characters, to work together on the Marvel Universe, a group of like-minded people working on a superhero movie was half the battle. The biggest surprise for me with The Avengers was in the first half of the film, when the members of The Avengers are assembled. The question of the film is actually the question of the audience as to how exactly the film is going to get a group of self-centred superheroes to collect themselves into S.H.I.E.L.D. and work with each other to save the world.

The film begins with the Tesseract under S.H.I.E.L.D.’s control becoming unstable, allowing Loki to come to Earth, and it is from then on that the film has hinted at the true purpose of the Tesseract, which is to be used as space teleportation. The Director then has to start the Avengers project, gathering all the superheroes S.H.I.E.L.D. has on hand to research and come together to stop Loki’s evil plans.

This is where the film gets interesting, the audience doesn’t really want to see the superheroes team up to fight the villains right away, what the audience would rather see is who would be more powerful if these superheroes were together. Don’t you ever think about that?
So, the film follows suit and evolves from the audience’s voyeuristic mentality, with Black Widow going to India to find Dr. Banner and S.H.I.E.L.D. rallying Captain America, along with Tony the Iron Man, who has a thriving career. Together they go to Germany and capture Loki. Did you see that? They capture the villain Loki right off the bat, which shows that the heart of the reunion is not about defeating the villain and saving the world, but rather confirms the title of the film, The Avengers, which is really about how this group of superheroes really do work together to save the world.

So Iron Man and Team America are stopped by Thor on their way to take Loki back to the Bureau, and the fight that everyone wants to see between the superheroes begins. After some non-fighting, the superheroes are ostensibly assembled, but at this point, far from being on the same page, they are each on their own and suspicious of each other. Iron Man represents authority because he feels he is the authority, Captain America represents the system and the law, the two communities, Dr. Banner and Hulk, represent the uncertainty of the so-called force for justice, Black Widow represents the grey channel between good and evil, Thor represents neutrality and Hawkeye represents (sorry I can’t really make up what Hawkeye represents… You are so unimportant). We can see from the images of these superheroes, a side view of today’s international situation, an attitude of each country towards big world events. Of course although the big events of modern countries are not as big as saving the world in the movie, the chaos in the Middle East, for example, the stance of each country, is actually very similar to the superheroes’ each for themselves mentality in the reunion.

S.H.I.E.L.D., on the other hand, is like the United Nations, which doesn’t have much power today. When the superheroes are about to fall apart, it would be a good idea to sacrifice someone to clear their minds of suspicion. This unlucky character is none other than Agent Coulson. We’ve all seen the body this time, so we won’t be seeing him in any of the current superhero movies. Unless it’s something like Captain Marvel that moves the timeline forward.

So we all remember why one of the more important people always dies when the plot gets to the point of no return in a movie, because that’s the best way to resolve the conflict and move the plot in a more tense direction. For example …. Agent Cawthorne’s death allows the masters to put aside their preconceptions and face the enemy together, and the battle damage to the carrier ahead allows the heroes to make their first division of labour. Hulk falls out of the air to the ground to transform back into Dr. Banner, and this time he finally doesn’t have his trousers on, which is a great step forward. Afterwards Loki rallies the troops, and yes, the primary target to fight, is still the indomitable New York, and the members of the Reunion are officially assembled for a fight to the death. Each superhero, showing off their formidable abilities. Well, including Hawkeye. The army wants to nuke the whole of New York, Iron Man as the originator of weapons manufacturing hands and feet disagree, so Iron Man flies into a wormhole holding the nuke and blows the alien army to smithereens.

So I can’t for the life of me figure out why the stupid decision to bomb New York instead of just sending planes to nuke the wormhole before. All in all, the members of the reunion save the day in this crisis, especially Iron Man, who can’t be underestimated as the C-list superhero. In the end credits egg, we also finally get our first glimpse of Exterminator’s handsome quarter-face side. The concept of the true universe of the Marvel Universe also opens up from that evil smile of the Exterminators.