Why did “Captain America” filmmakers erase all swastikas from the Nazis and mute U.S. Insignia on American Soldiers?
I’m not gushing over “Captain America: The First Avenger,” unlike most other movie critics. The movie was okay. It’s fine. But it isn’t great. And I question just how “American” it actually is. While I loved the first third or so of the movie, the rest is an amorphous fight between American soldiers with no American insignia on their uniforms and Nazis who don’t bear swastikas. The barely visible eagle on helmets isn’t the American eagle, but the symbol of the SSR–Strategic Scientific Reserve–division of the Army in which Captain America is placed. The references to the U.S. become more and more muted as the movie goes on.
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I guess this was done to please the Nazi-lovers and America-haters around the world (including most Muslims who continue to make Mein Kampf a best-seller), who might be offended if bad guys actually wore swastikas and the guys wearing “U.S.” pins on their lapels were actually the good guys. I mean, it is called, “Captain America,” after all. Not Captain Mohammed or Captain Switzerland. That’s the reason for the second title. The studio planned to just call the movie, “The First Avenger.” And all future movies with Captain America are set to use the name “Avenger” in them. Read the rest of this entry »