This 2023 is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the premiere of ‘Avengers: Infinity War’, one of the most important films in Marvel history and with a memorable ending that later fell apart in ‘Avengers: Endgame’. This outcome is undoubtedly the most daring of the study, but the truth is that It was about to get even darkerbut they decided that it was going to be too much for the public and decided to lighten it up at the last moment.
Thanos’ river of blood
As you will remember, Thanos triumphed at the end of the film and just after his fatal snap he meets a young Gamora in the Realm of the Soul, confessing that achieving his goal has cost him everything. Well, that moment was going to be much more sinister, since it was initially designed so that the character played by Josh Brolin walked on a river of blood that represented the infinity of victims that he had left along the way.
The visual effects supervisor Dan DeLeeuw revealed that “got a little dark“and they decided to explore other options until opting for the one that was included in the final cut of the film directed by the Russian Brothers. There it is perceived that it would not have been so difficult for those waters through which Thanos walks were actually blood, but it is seen that in Marvel they considered that this was going over the line.
Taking into account the large number of characters who died at the end of the film due to Thanos’s snap, it was clear to the Russo that “You have to go to very different places for those risks in order for it to feel real, for the characters to feel like they have something to lose, for the audience to feel like something is in jeopardy.”, and with this detail of the river of blood it didn’t really add more in that direction. That being said, it would have been a great way to underscore everything that’s going on. the mad titan at those moments.
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ was an impressive success, achieving box office receipts of 2048 million dollars, which places it in sixth place on the list of the highest grossing films of all time. Now Marvel finds it more difficult to destroy in this way, but in the study they are sure that they are confident that ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 3’ can be their biggest triumph since ‘Spider-Man: No Way home’.
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