sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“[1970s conspiracy thriller] works particularly well with Steve Rogers because it puts him on the back foot and makes him a fugitive in a way. You need to put him in parallel in order to
like Captain America. He is so pure and so symbolic that if he is in charge and
everybody likes him, it becomes a little infuriating. But if the only person he
can trust is himself and he is in the shadows, then he becomes a hero. He is a
character with a very simple arc: he has a moral code, he acts on his
principles. The most interesting version of this character is literally to see
him get the crap beaten out of him. You want to see him go through trials of
great pain and anguish because it makes you feel all that much better when he
does finally win.”