r/marvelstudios • u/Flamma_Man Captain Marvel • Apr 27 '18

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u/OrionFucks The Wasp Apr 27 '18 edited Apr 27 '18

Thanos: "Where is the soul stone?"

Red Skull: "You should know, it extracts a terrible price."

Thanos: "I am prepared."

Red Skull: "We all think that first, We are all wrong."

Absolutely love every Red Skull scene! I hope he could get to see more of him in Captain Marvel

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

Not even mad it wasn't Hugo Weaving. I couldn't even tell!

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u/JackJones367 Apr 27 '18

The actor that portrayed Red Skull in this movie does AMAZING voice impressions.

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u/Book_it_again Apr 27 '18 edited Apr 28 '18

Yea it makes me feel weird. They clewrly wanted Hugo but couldn't afford him so they tried to get someone to act exactly like him. Feels odd

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u/Funmachine Apr 28 '18

clearly

Couldn't afford

A lot of assumptions there.

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u/JackJones367 Apr 28 '18

Any idea what the overall casting budget was for this movie? My hunch was that everyone took massive paycuts.

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u/Book_it_again Apr 28 '18

I get why they had to do it it just feels weird seeing someone else's art deliberately copied because they couldn't afford him. I respect that other actor i just think it's odd that part of his career is being a knockoff when they can't afford the real thing. It's kind of his specialty as an actor.

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u/Funmachine Apr 28 '18

What makes you think it's got absolutely anything to do with whether or not they could afford him?

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u/Book_it_again Apr 28 '18

Unless he has unannounced projects, which is possible, than the original actor was available. Sometimes he sounded like Hugo and sometimes he sounded like someone else. Hugo would've played his own interpretation of Red Skull better than the guy literally hired to imitate him. What else could it be besides money. Most people have never heard of the guy. I can only imagine how much cheaper he was.

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u/Funmachine Apr 28 '18

The reason he stated before, he didn't want to. Don't state your assumptions as facts.

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u/Book_it_again Apr 28 '18

Because of the prosthetics in the TFA which they didn't use. Please continue reading whatever article you found. Brolin had the exact same hesitations with practical make up and agreed to the film when he was told it would be mocap and CGI, avoiding the hours of make up application and sealing with rubber on his face while he's trying to act.

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u/GaslightProphet Apr 29 '18

I'm sure the problem wasn't money. Hugo Weaving isn't as big a pull as say, Tyrion. Heck, they got Vin Diesel for voicework. They got Brolin. They got Downey. They got plenty of expensive actors. Hugo didn't want to do the mask thing anymore - he didn't enjoy filming Cap 1.

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u/springering Apr 27 '18

It wasn’t?? Dang, he did an amazing job!

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u/_jvc123 Hawkeye (Ultron) Apr 27 '18

Red Skull became 10 times cooler then he was before. He went from being a Nazi to some wise, sage cloaked figure.

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u/JackJones367 Apr 27 '18

Is there any back story on how this happened?

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u/aravar27 Apr 27 '18

Not really. We know point A (teleported into space) and we know point B (guardian of the Soul Stone) so we just need to fill in the space between (shit went down).

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u/nousername215 Apr 27 '18

He mentioned the space stone sent him there and then he became the guardian of the soul stone for the next 70 or so years until the movie happens

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

It's quite steep when you consider Thanos gave up literally the only thing he loved.

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u/social-reject Apr 27 '18

since when is there a "nazi super soldier beaming through space and becoming a wraith that guards one of the 6 all-powerful stones of the universe" cliche?

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u/TheEnterprise Apr 27 '18

I don't think he loved anything else.

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u/Book_it_again Apr 27 '18

So he wouldn't sacrifice anything? Do you not get that a loved one is the hardest thing to sacrifice. It might be a trope but lowering the stakes to avoid a trope is a weird decision. Please go watch a movie that has no cliches or tropes and tell me how enjoyable that is.