00:00You should have gone for the head.
00:07Arguably one of the most shocking moments in the MCU was the infamous Thanos snap at the end of Avengers Infinity War,
00:14in which he decimated half the universe.
00:17Now, here's why the Marvel's director Nia DaCosta is saying it's all Captain America's fault.
00:22In a recent interview with Roxane Gay, the director discussed the nature of unwilling martyrs in both her recent horror film Candyman
00:29and within the superhero genre.
00:31DaCosta then noted that she sees Captain America's role in Thanos' mission as more along the lines of a villain rather than a hero.
00:39Something I like to say a bit flippantly about Captain America is that the snap is all his fault,
00:44because he's trying to do his best, trying to do the right thing.
00:47There is a world in which he's a villain because, at the end of the day, he should have just sacrificed vision.
00:53Some fans have pointed to decisions made by characters like Doctor Strange, Star-Lord, or even Gamora
00:58as the single moment that ensured Thanos' genocidal plan would get to play out in Infinity War.
01:04But DaCosta is siding with those who have criticized the decisions around vision,
01:07with characters like Wanda Maximoff and Captain America.
01:10He chose one robot's life, albeit a sentient one, over literally the entire universe.
01:16There's a sort of anti-hero in that if you want to look at it through that lens.
01:20People would say, I'm crazy for thinking that way,
01:22but there's something connected to the journey of the anti-hero and the hero.
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