10 Great Improvised MCU Moments
5. Vision and Wanda Say Goodbye - Avengers: Infinity War
William Wordsworth once declared that "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of poweful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility". Essentially, he was saying that poetry is what happens when you write down powerful emotions with a clear head.
In which case, Wanda and Vision's parting scene in Infinity War is arguably the MCU's most poetic moment.
The Russo brothers (Infinity War's directors) had a unique approach to filming the above scene. Namely, they shot it once, then tasked Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda) and Paul Bettany (Vision) to improvise the next few takes.
The actors have discussed in multiple interviews how they workshopped some stuff together after receving this directive, and basically gave it the old college try when the cameras started rolling again.
It was an intriguing approach by the Russo brothers - letting the actors feel the emotion in the first take, then tasking them to recreate it in their own words in subsequent takes - but it clearly paid off, as Wanda and Vision's "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" were on full display in the finished product.
Having said that, this was only the second-best dying speech in the movie...