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Heroes Divided

Top: Hawkeye/Clint
Barton (Jeremy
Renner) and Scarlet
Witch/Wanda
Maximoff (Elizabeth
Olsen) are among
the heroes who
stand with Captain
America and Winter
Soldier. Middle: Iron
Man is backed by
Black Panther, Vision
(Paul Bettany), Black
Widow and War
Machine/James
Rhodes (Don
Cheadle). Bottom:
Stark also recruits a
young SpiderMan/Peter Parker
(Tom Holland) to
join the fight.

and shapes the subject against the background, [guiding the viewers] to look
where you want them to look in a visually pleasing way," Opaloch notes. As an
example, he points to a dialogue
exchange in a restaurant between
Rogers and Wilson; the out-of-focus
patrons in the background draw the
viewer into the duo's predicament and
amplify the characters' sense of isolation.
In addition to the primes,
Opaloch's lens package also included
Panavision 40-80mm (T2.8) AWZ2
and 70-200mm (T3.5) ATZ anamorphic zooms, but the crew called on them
only when in a pinch. One example is a
scene in which Rogers uses his bare
hands to try to prevent a helicopter from
taking off. With daylight fading as
Evans strained against a cranesupported helicopter, the crew threw up
the short zoom. "When the camera's on
a crane and we're up against the schedule," Opaloch notes, "there's a benefit to
how much footage we're able to capture
by not changing the lens and rebalancing the head."
With a preference for the long
end of the focal-length spectrum, the
directors typically wanted close-ups to
be shot in the 75mm-135mm range, but
they occasionally employed the 150mm.
"We love [optical] compression," Joe
Russo explains. "We almost never go
wider than 40mm. On Winter Soldier we
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