According to actor Anthony Mackie, Marvel’s bold foray into social justice with “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” is no one-off. The newly-minted Captain America reveals in the latest episode of the studio’s behind-the-scenes series, “Assembled,” the MCU is now out to change the way society looks at itself.
Mackie, who plays Sam “The Falcon” Wilson, says of his transition into Cap at the end of FATWS:
It’s been an emotional experience, especially in the time in which we live in now. For Marvel to give me the opportunity as a black man, from the south, to become Captain America, I think, says a lot, not only about the work that I’ve put in to get to this point, that they would entrust me with that. But with the way that they’re hoping to change the way society looks at itself.
Producer Nate Moore clarifies what Mackie means: “As a black man in America, to take on the stars and stripes, and wear that proudly, that’s not something that Sam Wilson would do out of the box.”
Lest these be dismissed as off-the-cuff comments, not necessarily representative of Marvel’s views, head writer Malcolm Spellman’s strikingly similar statement to Variety a few weeks earlier suggests the studio is intentionally telegraphing a message of racial grievance. Asked about the theme of FATWS, Spellman said it’s about a “black man confronting the stars and stripes and whether it’s even appropriate to carry that shield.”
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This is why movies no longer interest me. Not since “Midway” has there been one that I would make any effort to see. Maybe “Nobody”, but nothing really out of Hollywood or network television piques my curiosity.
If the left has undertaken a mission to destroy everything I find enjoyable and entertaining, they are succeeding beyond their wildest expectations.
The only hope is anything made by or promoted by Jon Favreau.
Mandalorian: Alpha Male rogue, reforming just a little, to defend an orphan. A Western.
I love Anthony Mackie, love the MCU, and love the Falcon/Captain America.
But the end of this series was….confusing. You had the Falcon lecturing world leaders to “do better”.
Ok. Why don’t you become a world-leader and show us how it’s done?
Pathetically juvenile, in it’s messaging.
“Get Whitey” isn’t going to do anything except get a lot of people killed, mostly the whites who are promoting this racial genocide.
People are not going to the Theaters anymore since most of the movies are way too far left
ripped junkies dressed in tight fitting outfits, in the gym twice a day, no lines to read, flying thorough the air to ensure that a totalitarian society is made safe from being lost.
diversity enhancers.