Candyman (2021) and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta admitted she "flippantly" blames Captain America for Thanos' Snap happening in Avengers: Infinity War.
The filmmaker's views on the matter came up during her interview with Roxane Gay for Inverse, in which Gay mentioned that DaCosta noted "racism tends to make people unwilling martyrs" while doing press for Candyman. When Gay pointed out that superheroes are often unwilling martyrs in their own right ("under vastly different circumstances," that is), DaCosta replied, "Oh wow. I didn't think about it in that sense, but I think Candyman, especially in the way we shifted his lore bit in my film, is a hero."
"Something I like to say a bit flippantly about Captain America is that [Thanos'] Snap [in Avengers: Infinity War] is all his fault because he was trying to do his best, trying to do the right thing," DaCosta continued. "There is a world in which he’s a villain because, at the end of the day, he should have just sacrificed Vision. He chose one robot’s life, albeit a sentient one, over literally the entire universe. There’s a sort of anti-hero in that if you want to look at it through that lens."
"People would say I’m crazy for thinking that way, but there’s something connected to the journey of the anti-hero and the hero," she added. "The hero’s pain is something that spurs them to martyr themselves, and an anti-hero’s pain is a thing that kind of starts their journey as opposed to ending it."
DaCosta made her feature directorial debut on 2018's Little Woods, a well-received dramatic thriller starring Lily James and Tessa Thompson -- the latter of whom plays Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She went on to helm this year's Candyman, a continuation of the 1992 slasher classic of the same name that earned generally positive reviews while grossing $77 million at the box office against a $25 million budget. DaCosta will join the MCU herself by helming The Marvels, a sequel to 2019's Captain Marvel that picks up some time after the events of Infinity War and its sequel, Endgame.
Brie Larson is reprising her role as Carol Danvers for The Marvels, with WandaVision's Teyonah Parris returning as Monica Rambeau, and Iman Vellani playing Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel. The film was one of several affected by Marvel Studios' recent delays and will now arrive Feb. 17, 2023.
Source: Inverse