{"id":29019,"date":"2012-08-07T17:05:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T23:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/whedons-vision-of-avengers-2.html"},"modified":"2014-01-08T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:57:42","slug":"whedons-vision-of-avengers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/whedons-vision-of-avengers-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Whedon&#39;s vision of &quot;Avengers 2&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least, what he said some months back, before the first one opened. \u00a0How would he (hypothetically) top the first installment?<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;By not trying to. By being smaller. More personal, more painful. By being the next thing that should happen to these characters, and not just a rehash of what seemed to work the first time. By having a theme that is completely fresh and organic to itself.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Wow, that&#39;s refreshing for sequel talk. \u00a0Too many sequels turn into &quot;Let&#39;s take the five things that worked the first time, crank &#39;em up to 11, and leave everything else out.&quot; \u00a0If Whedon can avoid that, <i>Avengers 2<\/i> should be awesome.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi2.cdnds.net%2F12%2F06%2FM%2Fmovies_avengers_super_bowl_trailer_best_bits_9.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/movies\/news\/a370020\/joss-whedon-on-avengers-2-it-needs-to-be-smaller-more-personal.html'>Joss Whedon on &#39;Avengers 2&#39;: &#39;It needs to be smaller, more personal&#39;<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDirector jokes that the Avengers sequel will be similar to The Godfather II.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/PLFm1wcbFkE' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, what he said some months back, before the first one opened. \u00a0How would he (hypothetically) top the first installment? &quot;By not trying to. By being smaller. More personal, more painful. By being the next thing that should happen to these characters, and not just a rehash of what seemed to work the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/whedons-vision-of-avengers-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whedon&#39;s vision of &quot;Avengers 2&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marvel-cinematic-universe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29021,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/avengers-director-reassemble.html","url_meta":{"origin":29019,"position":0},"title":"AVENGERS DIRECTOR, REASSEMBLE!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Aug-12 4:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Joss Whedon will be coming back for \"Avengers 2: Thanos Boogaloo\" (or whatever it ends up being called). 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