Captain America's Normandy: Then and Now

Captain America's Normandy:  Then and Now

- An incredible assemble of pictures comparing the aftermath of D-day back in 1944, to the nowadays historical city’s sight.

Feature Opinion
By SirJediFrank - May 31, 2010 12:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Captain America
Source: Normandy Then and Now

Historian-Photographer Patrick Elie, who has committed himself on the task of preserving Normandy´s history,finished his project of shooting the modern-day sight of some of that French city's landmarks, chosen from old original World War II photographs taken in the following days after the Allied Forces disembarked on June 1944 at the historic location.

* In these WWII pictures, there are shown soldiers, vehicles and the native population with a war-torn city landscape behind them.

* In the modern pictures, Elie amazingly recreated the original photographer’s point of view by shooting at the same spots, where possible. I’ve embedded the before and after photos side by side as one-single image, so you can see by yourself if the actual sites have preserved their WWII original look.

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A couple of years ago I got a Cap’s TPB with the classic 40’s comic books, in which he pursues Spies in the US and then fights Nazis in Europe; but I can’t remember if he actually participated on D-day.

So, back to Comic Book Movie business, what do you guys think?

With the recent announcement that the Captain America movie will indeed be filmed on location in Europe (London confirmed at least), do you think it would be worthy for the Cast and Crew a short trip from there to good-old Le Franҫe, and film 2 or 3 Steve Rogers and The Invaders fight and pacifying scenes with the Allied Soldiers over there?
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CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 5/31/2010, 5:31 AM
uh...okay
Joe6Pack74
Joe6Pack74 - 5/31/2010, 9:17 PM
Those are cool photos I love history shots like that. With alot of these places still around they would make excellent location shots for the movie. But alot of Europe is like that from my understanding. Looking forward to the Cap movie.
StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 6/1/2010, 3:56 AM
SirJediFrank: very interesting pics

@ Gtrman: me too
SirJediFrank
SirJediFrank - 6/1/2010, 7:21 AM
@SirPrize: Yes but historical=Real, and since the Marvel Studios movies tend to be as realistic as possible, i think that the audiences around the world´d like to know that "hey, they filmed that in Normandy itself".

@gtrman: yeah i was gonna comment that in the Article, but didn´t want it to be meant as a rip-off from that movie. i knew it would come out organically, since that Spielberg´s masterpiece is the new standard for a WWII-fight secuence.


@21: yes me too, from what we know they could shoot in Prague and say it is Paris lol! but there will always be something special when filming on the REAL locations, i agree.

@Six16: thanks man!. i think it is suitable for CBM.com, fortunately we have this FEATURES section.
Colton
Colton - 6/1/2010, 5:36 PM
did cap ever have anyting to do with the pacific theater of ear??
DaenerysTargaryen
DaenerysTargaryen - 6/1/2010, 8:42 PM
Might as well:
SentinelofLiberty
SentinelofLiberty - 6/6/2010, 6:03 PM
Great stuff! Thanks for posting this...
SirJediFrank
SirJediFrank - 6/9/2010, 9:56 AM
Sentinel: no problem, man! it was my pleasure. I am from Mexico, and we were also part of the Allies in WWII, specially versus the Japanese naval fleet. We even sunk a couple of Japanese and German ships!!

-Are you army-related?? just curious
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