The Avengers take on high school

For my final project for this class I will be rewriting a scene from The Avengers. Specifically, the argument scene from the first movie, where the whole team, minus Hawkeye, is in Dr. Banner’s lab arguing about S.H.I.E.L.D. and one another.  What sparked this idea was Whedon’s remake of Much Ado to Nothing. I decided I wanted to pull this scene out and put it in a completely different time or place, the only difference being that I will rewrite the words to fit into the period of choice rather than just adapt the scenery and actors. For my choice in location for this scene, I chose a high school. I thought it would be interesting to simplify Whedon’s elaborate characters into a single high school stereotype. These characters have so much depth in the original scene, I thought it would humorous and interesting to make this a scene to go in your typical trashy teen movie, a guilty pleasure genre of mine. I want to try to incorporate humor similar to that of Joss Whedon, thinking about some of the characters he created in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This particular piece of fan fiction will have some challenges for me. Firstly, figuring out the perfect stereotype for each character in the scene and then figuring out what I want the big issue to be. In the original scene, they’re fighting about the Tesseract, weapons of mass destruction and other worlds – obviously all topics not discussed every day in a high school. Thus it will be important to find a logical situation which a fight like this could arise out of.

The fanfiction I chose was a story exploring the sexual tension between Black Widow and Hawkeye. The writer of this piece is clearly a huge fan of the Marvel world and took this writing very seriously. They attempted to write this in a way that Marvel could sell this as their own story. For the most part, the story explores the characters created by Whedon pretty accurately. The author emphasizes the two in a way Whedon doesn’t. The author stresses that Black Widow is this super serious, brick-wall type while Hawkeye is this sarcastic, funny guy. Though they both have flickers of that in Whedon’s work, he doesn’t emphasize those traits as much. Hawkeye is funny at times, but comes across very serious as well in the Avengers and Black Widow is pretty closed off and serious, but nothing like she’s made out to be in this story. This clearly spins off of the Avengers, but the author either resurrected Coulson on his own, or knew he was brought back to life in the Agents of Shield tv show. In general, I would say a piece like this is written to appeal to big fans of the Marvel industry, especially those whose favorite characters are either Black Widow or Hawkeye, as they are the only people really mentioned in this piece. There is no mention of the Avengers in this, so it makes me wonder if this piece was written to be either before or after the Avengers assemble. It might even be written by someone who is a huge fan of the comics and has never seen the movies as it really had not direct ties or acknowledgement.

The fanfiction i used –

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8367383/1/Vietnam

I will be looking at the scene from the Avengers where Captain Americas and Tony Stark are arguing about the hulk

This scene is one of the most tense and honest scenes of the entire movie. Here Tony Stark has been attempting to provoke the Hulk and Captain America steps up and calls him out for being a selfish, careless individual. Typical of both Tony Stark and Joss Whedon, all of Tony’s responses are witty and sarcastic. For example when Captain America asks “Take that off what are you, what are you?” and Tony responds “A genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist.” Even in the most serious of moments, Whedon adds these little quips which help add to the depth of the movie and its entertainment. Captain America’s character is really highlighted here too as he calls out Tony on multiple occasions. He shows he’s nature towards heroism and honor. He’s always striving to make the world the best and is an extremely fearless character. Tony always has a comeback though, like his philanthropist line, his cut the wire comment and then calling Captain America a laboratory experiment. This scene also shows how brutally honest Tony can be, especially in situations where he probably shouldn’t be. My favorite part about this scene; however, is the ending. Captain America tells Tony to go put on the suit and they will go a few rounds, but a few seconds later after the attack on the ship, he delivers the same line, “Put on the suit” indicating the severity of the situation. It’s a very entertaining and well placed repetition which show how well Joss Whedon can connect to his viewers in witty humorous ways.