Marvel’s Russo Bros. Talk Star Wars
We’ve hit on this before, but when the Marvel and Star Wars universes collide synergistic posting beckons.
Recently, Marvel’s Russo Bros. reiterated how important their Star Wars fandom was to the MCU.
BTW: I wrote about this same episode of Pizza Film School in a recent piece (with a focus on Biggs Darklighter):
The Russo Bros. were also on The Star Wars Show last year:
The Russo Bros. Talk About Star Wars
For discussion’s sake, please note…
Joe Russo told ComingSoon:
I mean I think being such Star Wars fanatics, we would’ve probably focused on the Luke Skywalker story. And so, to me, there was the potential for three movies focusing on that arc coming to completion. But different choices you can make. I think you know, the fact that Star Wars is so important to us growing up, we got to make our Star Wars empire in Infinity War and Endgame. That was really our expression of what those commercial films meant to us as children and what we took away from them and the patterns of narrative structure that were so profound to us. We were able to replicate those patterns…
Anthony Russo added:
it just reminds me of how similar our enjoyment of these movies is to something like opera in the sense that there can be these crude sort of narrative beats that maybe don’t play in a very subtle or sophisticated way, but there’s something about their resonance and there’s something about the way the rest of the cinema surrounds that moment and then the music and the iconography and the drama of it all that somehow creates emotion and sort of excitement and thrill and danger and peril.
The topic is a little denser than I can pull into 350 – 500 words here, but I would definitely re-recommend Part 1 & 2 of Pizza Film School No. 4, featuring Mark Hamill:
Watch The Videos
The two episodes are full of insightful moments.
For example, while talking about the film’s structure, Joe Russo said:
“This is amazing storytelling… you get an incredible set-piece before Act 1 is even over; you get this amazing set piece with this battle on Hoth that ends the act with [the main character, Luke Skywalker] getting in the X-wing fighter and going off and leaving the main story.”
Which, if you’re paying attention, has happened any number of times during the Russo Brother’s MCU films (among other similar tropes).
Moreover — and this is just funny — later, when Mark Hamill speaks about being screen-tested for Star Wars, he was convinced that the dynamic of the film would be Harrison Ford’s older Han Solo as “Captain America” and Luke Skywalker as Bucky.
Of course, The Russo Brothers directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Again. Synergy. Love it.
So you want to learn about movies? Take the time and watch the videos, you should.