Chapter 300: A Party with the Lonely Sister, Mei Mei, Stone Sister, Kristen, and Ivanka

When it came to *Captain America*, Xu Can really couldn't do too much.

No matter how you filmed the origin story, the first half of the movie basically had to be told from the beginning.

Theatrical release time was limited—three hours was too long, and it basically had to be kept within two and a half hours,

leaving little time for shaping the villain, escalating the conflict, or elevating the theme.

Referencing the original *Captain America*, Xu Can modified as many of the original's jarring elements as he could.

For example, the rather baffling design of the Hydra base—both the costumes, props, makeup and the set art looked like a joke.

The villain's ambitions were also rather small: after tinkering with the Tesseract for ages, all they came up with was a gun that could disintegrate people, and some light-prism tanks?

Swap out the story backdrop and this design would still hold up—it didn't feel like World War II at all.

Xu Can's new version of *Captain America* drew as much reference as possible from realistic war films like *Band of Brothers* and *Saving Private Ryan*,

and in the ordinary combat sections, as well as the design of the Nazi and Hydra bases, restored authentic WWII scenes to the greatest extent.

In the Hydra portions, he created an apocalyptic atmosphere.

The Allies and the Nazis raced to build nuclear weapons; the Nazis, seeing they were about to fall one step behind, used the Tesseract to gain supernatural power capable of destroying the world.

Though the Tesseract weapon appeared only briefly, it created a nuclear-level deterrent effect.

Combined with the battlefield groundwork laid earlier, it plunged the Allied elite forces into a desperate situation,