Norton’s edit of the movie, for example, began with Bruce Banner in the Arctic, attempting suicide—unsuccessfully, because he transforms into the Hulk before he can die. The Hulk then causes an earthquake that briefly reveals an Easter egg: a frozen Captain America underneath the tundra. Marvel believed the attempted suicide was far too bleak an opening for what was fundamentally an adventure movie. When several rounds of notes failed to solve the underlying problems, the studio wanted to reassert control. On Iron Man, giving the director and star free rein creatively had worked out
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