{"id":33815,"date":"2023-09-18T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33815"},"modified":"2023-09-18T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T20:19:02","slug":"33815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33815","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Captain America: The First Avenger&#8221; (2011) starring Chris Evans &#038; Hugo Weaving \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z091823zview_capamericafa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"565\" \/><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Captain America: The First Avenger <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">(2011)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Joe Johnston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely <\/strong>based on <em>Captain America<\/em> comics created by<strong> Joe Simon, Jack Kirby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Chris Evans<\/strong><strong>, Hugo Weaving, Samuel L. Jackson, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones,\u00a0 Dominic Cooper, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, Kenneth Choi, <\/strong><strong>Martin T. Sherman <\/strong>and <strong>Stan Lee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> The first Avenger<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">World War II rages.\u00a0 Steve Rogers (Evans) wants to be a soldier and do his part in the war effort.\u00a0 Although a patriotic young man, Rogers is small, frail, unhealthy and keeps getting turned down.\u00a0 While attempting again to enlist, Dr. Erskine (Tucci) overhears Rogers&#8217; story.\u00a0 Erskine is head of a secret program designed to create &#8220;super soldiers&#8221;.\u00a0 Steve Rogers would be a perfect candidate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The process changes Rogers from a frail unhealthy man into a perfect physical specimen.\u00a0 That combined with Rogers&#8217; ethics and humanity make him worthy of the title Captain America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile in Germany, Johann Schmidt (Weaving) aka The Red Skull is the leader of Hydra, Schmidt is working to create a weapon of mass destruction.\u00a0 It will be up to Captain America and a small band of soldiers to go behind enemy lines and put an end to the Red Skull&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Captain America is one of the first comics I ever read as a child.\u00a0 Seeing Cap and his cast of characters (especially the Red Skull) on screen was this kid&#8217;s dream come true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Captain America: The First Avenger <\/em><\/strong>(2011) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z091823zview_capamericafa2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Director: Joe Johnston Screenplay: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely based on Captain America comics created<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33820,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33815\/revisions\/33820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}