As was obvious from the first rumbles that he would appear in the film, The casting of Harrison Ford In Marvel Studios’ “Captain America: Brave New World” is a wise choice. On the one hand, Ford makes a hell of a decent replacement for The late William Hurtwho was the original actor to represent the secretary general who became general Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross from “The Incredible Hulk” of 2008 and continuing through “Black Widow” of 2021. , the temperament and the courage to assume the role of a war general which takes place in the policy of a world increasingly assaulted by massive threats, both national and international. Really, the only missing element is Ross’ signature mustache, perhaps Nixée at the Ford’s request.

Of course, there is another reason why Ford’s appearance in the film is so appropriate, and it is because in “Brave New World”, Ross was recently elected president of the United States. Ford is an icon of cinema several times, well known for its fiction / fantasy incursions with “Star Wars” and Action / Adventure with the series “Indiana Jones”. Beyond these two behemoths is a third franchise that Ford has become synonymous for a brief moment: adaptations on the big screen of The Jack Ryan novels of the author Tom Clancy “Patriot Games” and “Clear and present danger”. He also played the commander -in -chief before, in “Air Force One” in 1997. It is these particular roles that the most informing Ford’s work in “Brave New World”, so here is why you want to look at them after (or Even instead of) see the new episode “Captain America”.

After the first major adaptation of Clancy / Ryan, “The Hunt for Red October” of 1990, producer Mace Neufeld decided to go in a different direction with the follow -up after the original actor of Jack Ryan Alec Baldwin committed to playing Broadway for a period when the film was in prolonged development. Choose to age Ryan and see the former CIA analyst at a subsequent moment in his career, Harrison Ford was then thrown like Ryan In this adaptation of the novel of the same name of Clancy in 1987. In “Patriot Games”, the now more mature Ryan is in London with his wife and daughter when he witnesses (and helps to thwart) an attempt to remove the abduction of members of a radical group will go Splinter. One of the members of this group, Sean Miller (Sean Bean), takes a particular shade with the intervention of Ryan, the lover to implement a secondary campaign to injure Ryan anyway.

In addition to Ford in Papa Bear mode, “Patriot Games” highlights the panache and most of the actor as a character, especially since Ryan slowly realizes how the game of intelligence and surveillance changed in the time he was one of them. Director Philip Noyce stages a silently frightening scene in which Ryan, as well as a knowingly suspicious James Greer (James Earl Jones), observes a SAS attack on a terrorist training camp, looking at death and destruction to perform Thousands of kilometers via satellite. It is a decisive moment for the film, the character and the integrity of Ford as an actor, a quality that develops in “Brave New World” while Ross has trouble maintaining a political situation which becomes more violent per minute.

After the success of “Patriot Games”, Ford returned to play Jack Ryan again in “Clear and present danger” of 1994, making him the only actor to play more than once on the big screen to date. This time, Ryan was promoted (a bit like Ross) to a position of authority, winning the title of acting assistant director of the CIA after Greer is struck by pancreatic cancer. After an incident that leads Ryan to discover that an American businessman turned money for a South American drug cartel, Ryan is digging more deeply and finds that there can be an entire secret war in Colombia, An operation that could have the secret approval of the current president, Edward Bennett (Donald Moffat). The film is a little more a classic action film from the 90s when “Patriot Games” had been, but it is also a drama of Heart-on-Ists à Manche; It is in a way John McTiernan by Frank Capra, which makes even more impressive that Noyce returned after the “Patriot games” to direct him.

If you are a fan of how President Ross is taken in the machinations of a large -scale conspiracy in “Brave New World”, then you appreciate Ford while Jack Ryan reads people and systems that allow them a ” clear and present danger ”. While Ross is uncomfortably victim, partly author of “Captain America”, Ryan is described as one of the last decent men of Washington, and there is something so satisfactory to see Ford invoke all the indignation and the disbelief that he can bring together people who dropped the American people. Unlike “courageous new world”, “clear and present danger” has a lot to say about failures within our own government, and why it is so important to be able to believe and openly criticize the people we choose in positions of power .

There is a tacit cinematographic tradition when it comes to representing the President of the United States. In most cases, the president is an accessory figure, someone so that a protagonist can go, ask for help or try to help. Sometimes a film is based on topical and will use the identity of a real life president, other times, they will be a barely veiled fictitious version. It is rarer to see a film where the president is a character in its own right outside a biopic. At least it is used To be quite rare before the mid -90s, where films like “The American President” and “Independence Day” saw their fictitious presidents being on the youngest side and having a sequence of romance and heroism (inspired, without any doubt, by relative youth and the call of Bill Clinton during the first part of the decade).

As part of this trend, “Air Force One” by Wolfgang Petersen, who launched Ford as President James Marshall, who is forced to action after a group of terrorists led by Egor Korshunov (Gary Oldman) Air Force One (and the wife and daughter of Marshall) hostage. Instead of using an escape pod to eject once the terrorists attacked, Marshall chooses to take the road to John McClane, hiding on the plane and counterattack when and where he can. This means that “Air Force One” is a riff (quite good) “Die Hard”, with the president of Ford going into hero mode in its own right. The film is a fantasy of action to make stimulating wishes for the Americans – “What if our chosen chief was not only honorable, but could personally kick the ass?” is a very powerful thinking exercise – and the apotheosis of Ford’s political thriller. There is a kind of meta-epanoument from Jack Ryan by shouting a corrupt president to James Marshall shouting to a terrorist to get off from his plane.

In the end, a large part of the juice is widespread in “Captain America: Brave New World” comes from the apparitions and indelible performances of Ford in these films. It is a quality “brave new world” fails to capitalize, but it is still there below the surface, especially given The possible transformation of Ross into a raging red hulk. Regardless of their intentions, it is always possible that people in power abuse their authority if they do not pay attention, and Ford’s meta-arc appearing in political thrillers is a rather resonating testimony of this fact.