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Captain America emerged during World War II as an inspiration to a nation in conflict.
The story of scrawny Steve Rogers emerging as a super soldier equipped to take on the dark shadow falling over the world with the strength of his character has resonated in our culture.
But the latest edition of the classic hero, set to hit movie theaters in a few short weeks, apparently does not specifically care about the country for which the character is named.
Prepare to meet the new Captain Globalism.
Anthony Mackie, the actor who is playing the new version of Captain America, universalized the comic book hero well beyond the United States, saying the character does not necessarily have specific ties to our nation, but is instead about virtues that anyone in the world could embody.
“Captain America represents a lot of different things. I don’t think the term America should be one of those representations,” he said. “It’s about a man who keeps his word, who has honor.”
Chris Evans, the actor who used to play Captain America in the first Marvel movies, made similar remarks when dismissing the American elements of the character over a decade ago.
“I’m not trying to get too lost in the American side of it. This isn’t a flag waving movie,” the actor commented. “It is red, white and blue, but it just so happens that the character was created in America during war time, when there was a common enemy, even though it is Captain America. I’ve said before in interviews, it feels more like he should just be called Captain Good.”
No one wants to see a movie about Captain Good.
The comments from Mackie and Evans represent the worldview that Hollywood broadly possesses, and the worldview that Hollywood is trying to force on the rest of the culture.
The entertainment conglomerates and progressive actors would have us believe that there is not anything particularly special about America, even though the hero Captain America was made as a celebration of the distinct virtues our nation uniquely possessed in the world.
Americans today still see America as a specific nation and people that has embodied and can once more embody such virtues. The vision of America cast by Hollywood as a nation and people that is not worth celebrating, not special in world history, or even uniquely pernicious because of past transgressions, is increasingly scorned by those who actually love America.
