Directors Anthony and Joe Russo Talk Deleted Scenes, Honest Trailer for Captain America 2 The Winter Soldier

Co-directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo talked earlier this week about a cut scene between Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Captain America (Chris Evans) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and now they have revealed more about some deleted scenes from the film.

The two spoke to Collider and Anthony said they left very little out of the movie. "We come from sort of do-it-yourself independent filmmaking so we're very smart on a producing level about where we spend our money and how we spend our money, and we just wanted to make sure everything we did was gonna end up onscreen so we worked very hard to have a tight script," he said. "So by the time we got to shooting-our shooting script is remarkably similar to the final edit of the movie."

"That's all we got," Joe added. "And we feel bad about those scenes because you can make the argument that those four minutes of footage should have stayed in the movie.   But we're hard on our material.  We're really hard on it. We like propulsive pacing. We just want to make sure it's as tight as possible."

The conversation then turned to Screen Junkies' Honest Trailer for Captain America 2 and Collider asked how the brothers felt about it. "Flattered and amused," Joe revealed. "What's so funny is that I'm an avid honest trailer watcher.  I love it. It cracks me up.  So I think we talked about it in the commentary we used to sit in the room and go, 'this is not going to end up in an honest trailer.  This logic isn't sound enough yet.'  We literally tried to Honest Trailer proof the movie.  Because what Honest Trailers really is, and I'll say litmus test again, is 'how sound is the logic in your film?  How ridiculous are the buys that you're asking the audience to make?' So we would just comb through the script over and over again and go, 'how do we shore up this logic? How do we shore up this logic?'  So it was a very helpful exercise for us."

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