I'm actually a fan of Chris Evans' serious (or more so) work. I thought he was surprisingly wonderful in Sunshine. But I don't know that I like him for the Cap. I think you need a blonde version of Superman for Captain America--he has to be almost without a sense of irony about himself to work. Chris Evans is just too funny to play it that straight. He could surprise me, sure, but I don't know that I could suspend that instinct to expect funny from him. I have the same trouble with Ryan Reynolds, but that's fine because he's playing Deadpool and Green Lantern, neither of whom are exactly Boy Scouts.
Captain America is a tough one to cast, which is obviously why they haven't been able to do it yet. Wait, have they? ::runs to check teh interwebs:: No, not yet. You have to find someone who can be both a twerp and physically imposing, who is quintessentially human and yet impossibly, pre-ironically noble in all that he does. That's what I mean about him being Marvel's Superman, only Captain America also is saddled with the burden of not just being a hero but the conscience of the nation. I don't know if you've read recent Marvel storylines, but Captain America--the public's hero--took a strong stance against a law requiring superhumans to register. His identity has never been a secret, far as I know, and even if it is to the public, it's always been known to the government because they created him. Captain America has to be that forthright that he will say no to the elected government if he believes it is wrong by the principles of the country...and he has to not come off like a fundamentalist teabagger freak. Veeeery tricky.
If he weren't already tapped for Thor, I'd have said Chris Hemsworth (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1165110/) might have been a good choice. He's got a sort of pretty but bland solidity to him. I've only seen him in five minutes of the Star Trek reboot, so I have no idea how good of an actor he is, really. But we'll see with Thor, I guess.
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Date: 2010-03-15 05:16 pm (UTC)Captain America is a tough one to cast, which is obviously why they haven't been able to do it yet. Wait, have they? ::runs to check teh interwebs:: No, not yet. You have to find someone who can be both a twerp and physically imposing, who is quintessentially human and yet impossibly, pre-ironically noble in all that he does. That's what I mean about him being Marvel's Superman, only Captain America also is saddled with the burden of not just being a hero but the conscience of the nation. I don't know if you've read recent Marvel storylines, but Captain America--the public's hero--took a strong stance against a law requiring superhumans to register. His identity has never been a secret, far as I know, and even if it is to the public, it's always been known to the government because they created him. Captain America has to be that forthright that he will say no to the elected government if he believes it is wrong by the principles of the country...and he has to not come off like a fundamentalist teabagger freak. Veeeery tricky.
If he weren't already tapped for Thor, I'd have said Chris Hemsworth (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1165110/) might have been a good choice. He's got a sort of pretty but bland solidity to him. I've only seen him in five minutes of the Star Trek reboot, so I have no idea how good of an actor he is, really. But we'll see with Thor, I guess.