Why did everyone say Thanos was portrayed as the "main character" or the protagonist? He was neither.
He literally served a classic villain role and his actions were always portrayed in a bad light and most of his screentime was on the 3rd act (which is common for 90% of all good villains)
He was a great villain, I can agree to that. But he wasn't portrayed as a protagonist in any stretch of the imagination
Is there a good torrent out yet?
He was clearly the main character. The film generally followed his actions, was focused on his motivations and plans, and he very obviously drove the plot while everyone else had to react to him.
Considering the movie has been out for more than
nvm thought it was endgame
The main character has the most screentime and the movie focuses primarily on him, this is not the case for Thanos. The Avengers were the main characters. Thanos is very clearly the antagonist/villain
because it was the movie that gave thanos nuance, rather than him being some big evil purple guy
the same nuance that endgame took a massive shit on and ruined his character with
what the fuck were they thinking
Yes, but that does not make him the main character. That just makes him a really well thought-out villain
Thanos objectively had the most screentime though
and you can be a villian and the main character
The main character of a movie doesn’t have to be a hero, or even any good.
Also see , brainlet
>Thanos objectively had the most screentime though
He didn't, the pic makes it look that way but that's still only 30 minutes from a 120 minute movie. That is alot, but it's still not enough to be called a main character. The movie doesn't really have a singular main character, the main characters are the Avengers
>The main character of a movie doesn’t have to be a hero, or even any good.
>and you can be a villian and the main character
I know, but the main character is always a protagonist. Thanos is not a protagonist. The movie plays out from the perspective of the Avengers and the Avengers together have the most screentime.
Has anyone ever made a Thanos-only cut of this movie?
Iron Man is the protagonist, Thanos is the antagonist.
The movie is about Iron Man realizing that his goal of protecting the world with a giant shield, one he's had since Loki invaded, has failed. He lost his team in Civil War, and he loses his surrogate son in this movie. The lost two characters onscreen are Iron Man, holding Spider-Man's ashes in his hand, and Thanos smiling.
I wanna know ths too.
I'd actually love to have all Thanos scenes in the entire MCU cut together into one coherent film, would be pretty kino
The main character is Thanos, even the directors and writers have said so. Thanos is the one who goes through the hero's journey throughout the film. He is also the only character with an arc. Everyone else is static.
Just because the writers say shit doesn't mean it's true. Do you think J.K Rowling's tweets about Dumbledore being gay are true? No, they're retarded.
Thanos is not the main character or the protagonist of the film, he is an antagonist, the most classic example of an antagonist yet.
>He is also the only character with an arc. Everyone else is static.
That is simply wrong, Tony had a very clear ark.
>Tony
>arc
Tony is still the same asshole at the end of Endgame
I'll try it. Gonna be using some Yify rips because trying to rip that shit straight from the Blu-Ray is too much work and costs way too much disk space than I currently have. Wish me luck
You're arguing that JK Rowling commenting on a side character's orientation posthumously is the same as the writer's of Infinity War explaining the very structure of their movie as it's coming out.
>Tony had a very clear ark
What was Tony's arc within Infinity War? How was he different at the beginning of the movie compared to the end? Not his situation, but his personality. Infinity War was just the set up for the Avengers' stories in Endgame.
Now you're just being retarded
I once heard the Blu-Ray for this movie was gonna have 30 extra minutes of Thanos in the special features, did that actually end up happening?
Thanos should have had 60-70 minutes of screentime, prove me wrong.
Listen to the director's commentary and cry yourself to sleep for being such a fucking idiot.
>no hour and a half movie chronicling Thanos' day as he acquires all the infinity stones
What's the point?
What the director's say isn't always true, if a director says a meatball in one scene is actually a banana, that does not make it true.
Same with Thanos, no matter what the directors say, by all laws of storytelling, Thanos is an antagonist and not the main character.
Because usually a movie is about the protagonist trying to accomplish something and the antagonist trying to stop him. In Infinity War it was Thanos trying to accomplish something (Collecting all the stones) and it's the heroes who are trying to stop him.
To be fair, a lot of superhero movies are like that. Superheroes are sorta inherently reactive. It's usually about the villain trying to do something bad and the hero stopping him but Thanks had such a clearly defined journey that I can see why someone would consider him the protagonist.
>Just because the writers say shit doesn't mean it's true. Do you think J.K Rowling's tweets about Dumbledore being gay are true?
Yes. That was kinda written between the lines in the in the actual books when they talked about his relationship with Grindelwald. It wasn't explicit but it was there.