I recently came across this image of Benedict Cumberbatch from Star Trek Into Darkness, one of the highly awaited movies of the year. The image shows a grim looking Cumberbatch, playing the anti-hero in the movie, being carried away by a group of guards from the Star Trek universe.
Gone are the days when one would have been fooled in thinking this could possibly be the last scene of the movie. The picture itself vaguely reminds me of the capture of Loki in The Avengers. Wasn't that supposed to be a big moment for Shield and Nick Fury? Interrogate him and find out the location of the missing Tesseract? Here is the uncanny similar image I am talking of.
And that interrogation did not go too well, did it? For Loki always wanted to be caught (I am not calling this a spoiler, for if you haven't seen The Avengers yet, even God will not forgive you!). When I pondered on it further, I realized that a similar plan had been hatched by the devious mind of Silva, Javier Bardem's character in Skyfall. His capture scene though did not include him marching down the halls with Mi6 personnel flanking him on all sides, or else I would have eagerly put it up here. But he too does look forward to his capture, which brings him a step closer to his goal of getting his hands on M.
Step back a few years, into the dark nights of Gotham City. Joker too had been captured mid-way through The Dark Knight. You got the bad guy, good job, right? Hardly. For even though he was behind bars, Joker had an entire chain of events going on which lead to the creation of Two-Face and also his ingenious escape. So the point I'm trying to make with all these examples is that the capture of the villain is probably, in this age, what sets the ball rolling for a dramatic turn of events to happen. And that first picture that I showed you way up could be such a 'moment' in Star Trek Into Darkness. Or maybe Benedict Cumberbatch is just taking a stroll with his gun carrying Star Trek friends. Oh, I could be so wrong!
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