There’s a lot of ways they could be misleading us about Endgame.
Marvel Studios and the Russo brothers have given us several sneak peeks at Avengers: Endgame, but comments from the directors – and tricks they’ve played on the audience before – have us wondering whether what we’ve seen really tells us the truth about what to expect from the movie.
Trust is built over time, and Joe and Anthony Russo have proven that the only thing we can really count on from them is a well-made movie. Everything else is questionable. Look no further than the trailer for Avengers: Infinity War. One shot shows the entire team, including the Hulk, , running at the screen in Wakanda. But when the film arrived, the shot was nowhere to be found. In an interview with Slashfilm, Joe and Anthony Russo admitted to changing trailers to misdirect viewers, saying, “At our disposal are lots of different shots that aren’t in the movie that we can manipulate through CG to tell a story that we want to tell specifically for the purpose of the trailer and not for the film.”
As many observers pointed out, Joe Russo also appeared to straight-up lie about the title of Avengers: Endgame when asked if it was ever spoken in Infinity War. The director said no, but…
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The ‘lying’ Russos | 0:15
The first 20 minutes? | 1:08
Reunion or no reunion? | 1:54
Who’s hiding? | 2:50
No Hulk? | 3:39
Fighting Thanos | 4:19
Preserving the narrative | 5:04