Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26687285-20151126205245/@comment-25692211-20151129104655

Marvelfan94 wrote:

Uskok wrote:

Matmets wrote: I don't get how TOny wants to work with the gorvenment... he's so against SHIELD... Why is the government any better? Maybe he was brainwashed by Zemo. Then he provokes the "Superhero Civil War", the Avengers destroy each other, and HYDRA takes over the world. Yeah, i really hope they don't go in that direction. Infact i want Zemo/HYDRA to have nothing to do with the SA's, since it would completely compromise the movie's moral grey area. Cause now it would just be like: Ha-HA!, Baron Zemo was behind the SA's all along!. Such a twist could completely spoil the fascinating ideological battle that the story seems to be centered on.

By villaizing one side of the debate, you inadvertenly choose one over the other, which is the exact opposite of what the Civil War story is about. It's supposed to be a situation where neither side is completely right or wrong.

So yeah, doing something like this would be really counterproductive. The 2012 animated adaptation of the Lorax made the same mistake. In the original book, the Once-ler's face was never seen, which symbolises that anyone could make his mistakes and turn out like he did. And the Once-ler is shown constantly arguing with himself trying to find a compromise that would be economically and environmentally beneficial, and when the trees go extinct he becomes reclusive out of regret for his failures.

In the film version, not only is his face seen, but he is instead manipulated by his greedy, pure evil family, which means that the mistakes are no longer his own, and it's no longer his fault, and his character development in the book is no longer believable. And then they had the greedy O'Hare business man appear as the movie's antagonist, and he is presented as a one dimensional, irredeemable, evil business guy stereotype. Therefore, having a clear villain ruined the message of the story and replaces the complex, deep meaning of the original with a generic "good vs evil" and "save the trees" story.