One draft involved Thanos as the narrator of the film.
You gain a lot of information.
You write characters out in a way that you start to understand what it is they want.
So how did the Russos decide that a linear approach was the right way to tell this story?
Its gotta have a certain structure to it that reflects a heist film.
So its a very simple structure.
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We thought, we have so many characters in the movie, we have to simplify the structure.
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