Throughout the film, Steve uses a side arm while fighting Skull’s forces. In the comics, he used a side arm until realizing that his new shield could be used as a weapon and it replaces the sidearm.
The Asgardians from Thor (2011) are the “Gods” referenced throughout the film.
To prepare for her role as Peggy Carter, Hayley Atwell trained six days a week.
In the exhibition, there is a mannequin in a red jumpsuit under a glass dome. That is a reference to the android, the original Human Torch.
Captain America’s special forces unit he assembles and leads is an amalgamation of the characters of Marvel Comics’ World War II period titles.
Hayley Atwell based her performance as Peggy Carter on Ginger Rogers: “She can do everything Captain America can do, but backwards and in high heels.”
Sam Worthington and Will Smith were in early talks for the role of Captain America. Kellan Lutz, Ryan Phillippe and Alexander Skarsgård carried out auditions, but ultimately the role went to Evans.
Johann Schmidt/Red Skull’s car was built from scratch over a modified truck chassis. It was 25 feet long and eight feet wide. Its design was inspired by the Mercedes 540K and the Mercedes G4.
Chris Evans declined the role three times before accepting the part. After that, he had a meeting with the director and the producers who convinced him to take the role.
The shield Captain America uses in the early stages of the film is similar to the one used in the first issue of the Captain America comic.
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Calling jeet kune do a style is really misleading. It’s Cap’s fighting style in the sense that Cap sucks up whatever works and then stuffs it all together in an effective way. And that’s what jeet kune do IS.
Bruce Lee grew up street-fighting in Hong Kong. As such, he learned martial arts as a way to beat the snot out of other people. He always found the kind of stylized kata-based tournament-style martial arts to be, hm. Usually they teach you how to look pretty, not how to be effectual (with a few exceptions, such as boxing, which he had a lot of respect for because boxers have never forgotten the point of fighting; and the occasional dojo where they focus on things like self-defense or MMA).
So, while Lee studied many styles, when it came time to use them he simply snagged everything that worked and threw it into his personal style. And that became known as jeet kune do, even though it is, in the formal sense, the opposite of a style.
There are now dojos that train people in ‘jeet kune do,’ even though in some cases they’re turning Lee’s fighting into something that’s exactly the sort of stylized and ineffective thing he worked to get away from. In other cases, they’re simply training you how to be a down-and-dirty fighter, in case you ever need to knock somebody down.
So to say that Cap’s style is ‘jeet kune do’ is simply to say that Cap’s style is to be a combat-move-sponge and to beat the snot out of his opponents in an idiosyncratic but highly effective way. Which is not a thing that Bruce Lee invented, although he was responsible for a renaissance in martial arts and reminding practitioners the world over that the point was not to look pretty, but to stun the fuck out of your opponent.
I bet Steve was thrilled when he discovered Bruce Lee, though. In Marvel-verse, Steve was probably one of the fighters Bruce Lee studied, and I’m sure Steve later returned the favor.
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