Captain America: The First Avenger - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Captain America: The First Avenger or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Captain America: The First Avenger

[beth]

Paul Warren (an experienced film double and actor, mostly known for roles wearing prosthetics) was used in pre-production to help develop the "skinny Steve Rogers" effect by CGI supervisor Christopher Townsend, as well as one of the "skinny Steve" on-set stand-ins. English Shakespearean trained stage actor Leander Deeny was used on-set as the "skinny Steve" double when Chris Evans was sitting or lying down, or when a minimum of physical movement was required.

[marc]

Neal McDonough played a soldier in the 107th Infantry. In Band of Brothers (2001), he played an officer in the 101st Parachute Infantry Division, which also fought in Europe throughout World War II.

[ruby]

Chris Evans declined the role three times before accepting the part. Not out of dislike for the role, but because he feared what the effects of the sudden increase of fame would be on his private life. Then Robert Downey, Jr. convinced him to take the part, and thus gain the freedom to sign on any other role he'd want afterwards. After that, he had a meeting with director Joe Johnston and the producers, who convinced him to take the role.

[gerald]

Red Skull returns in Avengers: Infinity War (2018).

[wallace]

The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Rosamund Pike and Alexa Davalos screentested for the role of Peggy Carter.

[willard]

In Cap's first real mission in Italy freeing his best friend Bucky Barnes of the 107th from the H.Y.D.R.A. Base, when he releases the "Howling Commando Squad", Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan (Neal McDonough) turns while every one is leaving the cell, and said, "what , now we release everyone?!" Morita (Kenneth Choi) retorts "I'm from Fresno ace!" All the U.S. Army knew, especially those serving in Italy, the battalion of Japanese-American soldiers were stationed in Italy , were the most decorated battalion in World War II. Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan should know this, being a Howling Commando.

[amber]

The date that this movie came out in 2011, July 22, is the same date that Captain America (1990) premiered on home video in the U.S. in 1992.

[caroline]

Chris Evans played Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007). This is Chris Evans' third Marvel comic book film.

[beth]

Baron Zemo and Baron von Strucker originally appeared as side villains working with the Red Skull, but the writers cut them from the script due to fears that they would be wasted in such small roles. Strucker ended up being used in the post-credits sequence of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), as well as a brief role in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), while Zemo became a villain in Captain America: Civil War (2016) (although not as a H.Y.D.R.A. agent).

[bernice]

Up until a very late stage in pre-production, H.Y.D.R.A. would have been a blatantly Nazi paramilitary organization, with swastikas on their uniform. The implication is still present in the final version, however. In addition, deleted scenes also had H.Y.D.R.A. explicitly attacking Nazis in addition to Allied powers.

[cassandra]

This is the fifth live-action adaptation of the superhero. The first was the serial Captain America (1944); the second was the television movie Captain America (1979) and its sequel Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979); and the fourth was the theatrical film Captain America (1990).

[ivan]

Tommy Lee Jones (Colonel Phillips) appeared as Two-Face/Harvey Dent in Batman Forever (1995). Captain America and Batman faced off in the Marvel vs. DC crossover in 1996. Jones is also best known for performing as Kevin Brown "Agent K" in "Men in Black" and its two sequels.

[ronnie]

Hugo Weaving and Stanley Tucci appeared in the Transformers film franchise. Weaving voiced Megatron in Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). Tucci played Joshua Joyce in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014).

[gerald]

Howard Stark finds the lost Tesseract at the end, which leads him to creating blueprint designs about the cube's structure and overall power, which can be seen in a case of paperwork that Howard's son Tony looks through in the middle of Iron Man 2 (2010).

[christina]

(At around eight minutes) Summary of patient health issues (for skinny Steve Rogers): Asthma, Scarlet fever, Rheumatic fever, Epilepsy, Sinusitis, Chronic or frequent colds, High blood pressure, Palpitations or pounding in heart, Easy fatiguability, Heart Trouble, Nervous trouble of any sort, Has had household contact with tuberculosis patient, Parent/Sibling with diabetes, cancer, stroke or (?).

[kristina]

The idea of the Red Skull being an original test subject for the Super Soldier Serum, and it horribly disfiguring him, originally comes from Captain America (1990) . In the comics the Skull would not have the Super Soldier Serum in his body until his mind was transferred into a clone of Steve Rogers' body in the modern day by Zola (Captain America Vol. 1 #350)

[camila]

The final Paramount Pictures film produced with Marvel Studios. Disney bought the rights to The Avengers (2012) and Iron Man 3 (2013).

[frederick]

Captain America was the last solo Avenger who hadn't appeared in a Marvel Cinematic Universe film before his own solo film until Ant-Man (2015).

[sandra]

WILHELM SCREAM: (At around one hour and thirty minutes) Rogers is pursued by H.Y.D.R.A. soldiers on motorcycles, but releases a flamethrower defense. One screams as he swerves, loses control, and is thrown headlong.