A hero’s journey
A COUPLE DANCE cheek to cheek in the front room of their house, to the strains of It’s Been A Long, Long Time by Harry James & His Orchestra. As the music swells, they look at each other, share a kiss and we cut to black. This, rather than superheroes swooping, soaring or swinging through the skies, is the final image of Avengers: Endgame. The emphasis is on character, not spectacle, as at last — at long, long last — Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, gets to dance with the love of his life, Peggy Carter.
It completes a journey for Rogers that began in 2011’s . Since then, Chris Evans’ super-soldier has, along with Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark, become one of the pillars of the MCU and, with the exception of Evans himself, nobody has been closer to the character than Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the writing duo who have guided Cap through each of his three solo movies and, latterly, and . We spoke to them, at their offices in Agbo Studios in LA, about taking a character that could have been corny, cheesy and horribly self-righteous, and making him the moral centre of the MCU.
