Title:
Captain Marvel : Where’s the Love
Tagline:
Love can set you free
Synopsis:
An amnesiac Kree Starforce operative with mysterious powers, discovers her true past and slowly learns that her emotions can set her free from the shackles of those she once considered allies.
Intent:
To make Carol more likeable. A lot of people had an issue with anti-male sentiments in this movie. Some people didn’t notice it, but for other people it stuck out like a sore thumb. My intent is to apply ointment to the sore thumb of this movie. To give it some love and allow love to reflect back out. Sorry about the silly analogy, but I am a girl and I didn’t feel empowered by this movie. I feel much more empowered by strength through love, and so I tried to take the movie in this direction. Emphasis on emotions and friendships.
I also received a request to remove Fury losing his eye due to a scratch. He still gets scratched, but I made it a point to show his eye healed afterwards in a mid credits scene. Since Goose is in Fury’s office, it is still possible he gets scratched by Goose again so if people like that part then it can still have happened after the events of this movie.
Edits:
Colour graded entire movie to reflect Carol’s emotional state.
Added visual effects to reflect when Carol’s implant was subduing her powers.
Switched Carol and Yon Rogg door scene, to a deleted scene of Yon Rogg teaching children.
Removed Carol needlessly insulting her Kree colleague.
Inserted deleted scene showing more upbeat and friendly interaction with Kree colleagues.
On skrull ship, during memory search, cut some parts where she was obviously being ‘put down by men’.
Removed Carol screaming at skrull. it was stupid.
Removed Carol telling Fury “you finally asked a relevant question”
Removed Biker “how about a smile?”
Removed Fury and ‘Keller’ looking under autopsy blanket.
Removed “noble warrior heroes”, the way she said it was too smarmy.
Removed Carols smirk and “huh” just before the “welcome wagon” in the pegasus facility.
Inserted flashback to memories of Goose when they meet up with Goose in the corridor.
Inserted a few relevant flashbacks when Carol is studying the files on the crash.
Replaced Yogg Ronn/Ronan scene with deleted scene of ‘Keller’ talking about tracking the plane.
Re-inserted Yon Rogg/Ronan scene midway through the scene in Marie’s house so as to make it feel like she was there longer.
Inserted a shot of ‘Goose’ at the cut back to Marie’s house. (from stock footage)
Inserted some warm memory flashbacks when Carol is looking at old photos…
Inserted an unpleasant ‘memory’ of the ‘Skrull’ shooting Lawson, just before there is a knock on the door, to introduce more tension.
Inserted scene of Yonn Rogg talking to supreme intelligence to show just how intimidating the supreme intelligence can be.
Removed Carol saying " reached blah blah altitude" and inserted a reminder of her and Maria’s relationship.
Changed scene of scanning goose and fury, so it says “human” instead of “human male”.
Reduced volume of “smells like teen spirit”. it just seemed way too loud to me.
Removed memory of bike crash and baseball. these seem to serve only to suggest “she’s clumsy because she’s a girl”. extended the gocart clip just to pad this out for the dialogue.
Completely replaced montage of “Carol standing up because she’s realised she’s allowed to” with a montage of “Carol reflects on her friendships and realises her emotions give her strength”.
Removed “just a girl” and replaced it with “violet” by ‘Hole’.
Removed horrible effects shot of carol falling towards the ground. It was just ugly XD
Removed Carol’s line to Yon Rogg “I have nothing to prove to you”.
Removed Talos’ reaction to Goose scratching Fury’s eye. Now it is not indicated that This is the cause of is lost eye.
Removed Maria’s line asking Fury about his eye.
Removed final scene to reinsert it as a mid credits scene
Mid credits scene features part of a deleted scene of Fury walking to his office with both eyes intact.
Obligatory edit of the end credits.
Special thanks:
VERsingthegamez
Malthus
Artan42
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