Tag: ca:cw
I think it’s easy and generalising it to say that they’re lovers, when you’re forgetting that one has a lot of guilt because he swore to be the protector of the other, the father figure or older brother so to speak, and then left him behind.” Adds the actor: “I have no qualms with it but I think people like to see it much more as a love story than it actually is. It’s brotherhood to me.
Sebastian Stan on Steve and Bucky’s relationship, “Captain America: Civil War is a love story” Empire Magazine (March 22, 2016) [source] (via youneedtostrut)
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finally I’ve sorted (with help, because oh my god thanks for no ??? good screenshots????) Bucky’s new sniper piece and YOU GUYS:
This is a M249 Light Machine Gun.
This is !!!!! SO RAD !!!! FOR RECOVERED BUCKY!!! for so many reasons:
First of all, the M249 is a belt-fed, gas-operated American-make machine gun. It’s a most importantly for Bucky a throwback weapon, because it fires in a similar manner to his M1941 Johnson Rifle from the War. The M249 fires with an open-bolt, meaning it will provide the accuracy of a sniper rifle BUT the power, velocity, and volume of a machine gun. It fires 5.56 NATO (.45mm) cartridges, and can feed off both linked rounds AND other magazines, meaning the user could swap to an M4/M16 rifle magazine in a pinch (incredibly useful in the field).
Also, this motherfucker is HEAVY, approaching 25 pounds when loaded, and as we can see from the new spot, it’s also been retrofit with an M4 50-round magazine (can be seen over Bucky’s left forearm when he’s standing behind Steve), most likely pushing it into the 30-pound range. A weapon this heavy, with high volume fire, is a testament to Bucky’s physical endurance in both carrying and operating it, as the kick-back on a weapon this size is disruptive at best.
Additionally, even the disadvantage of this weapon caters to Bucky’s strengths: the M249 is known to heat up quickly along the barrel when in use, but, GUESS WHAT: metal hand steadying the barrel deals with that. Bucky, as always, adapting!!
Finally – the M249 has been in use by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in every major military conflict since 1989. It’s primarily used for high-volume cover fire, but allows for sniping accuracy as well.
So consider: Bucky picking up a weapon that’s defensive in purpose. A gun that yes, can be used for sniping but is almost always used to provide cover for other fighters. A gun that can, at highest volume, discharge approximately 10 shots a second, but operates almost like the weapons he’d used in WWII.
Bucky at Steve’s six, seventy years later, choosing a weapon of defense in his own way. It might not be a shield, but he’s come a very, very long way.
MCU fic: Resonance
I don’t make a habit of reposting fic announcements, but this is the first time I’ve crossed the 3k word mark (barely) in more than two months, so I am calling an exception:
Resonance
3300 words | Tony Stark, Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts, etc.
Tony offers to help Rogers find Barnes, of course he does. It’s what
friends should do – and he and Rogers are becoming friends, despite
both of their best efforts – and Tony has done a lot more for people he
respects a lot less. He doesn’t care that Barnes was a HYDRA assassin
any more than he cares that Clint was briefly Loki’s minion or that
Clint killed people even when he wasn’t under mind control or that
Natasha has killed even more. He’s a former arms dealer and has a great
big glass house from which he knows not to throw stones.“I’m not
saying that the very concept of him doesn’t scare the crap out of me,”
he tells Pepper privately. “And I don’t just mean the ‘world’s deadliest
assassin’ part. But whoever’s left of James Barnes deserves better than
what he’s gotten.”Pepper kindly does not mention that this was
not exactly the quality or quantity of grace he showed Rogers when it
was time to dig him out of the ice. He never likes it when his personal
growth is rubbed in his face.Neither of them are surprised when
he spends most of the next week waking up in the middle of the night
sweating and shouting in Pashto. His own experiences in Afghanistan
don’t measure up to Barnes’s seventy years of captivity, but there’s a
fair bit of ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ involved. Different
injuries, different reasons to be kept, different means of doing so…
and yet. And yet. Bad people found them and took them and tried to use them to reshape the world and it resonates in the bone..
[Inasmuch as I used a ‘reference’ for Bucky here in terms of recovery level, it was the version from Blues in the Groove, which I suppose this could be a prequel for. Reading that is completely unnecessary for this, though.]
This, and everything else this author writes is so awesome. It’s strongly grounded in reality (as much as anything based on a comic book movie and comic books can be). Go. It is essentially a stand alone that happens after Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
“Tony actually thinks we should be signing these accords and reporting to somebody and Cap, who’s always been a company man and has always been a soldier, actually doesn’t trust anymore. Given what happened in Cap 2, I think he kind of feels the safest hands are his own,” Evans told the rapt crowd. “And these are understandable concerns, but this is tough, because even reading the script, you think I think I agree with Tony in a way, and I do agree that to make this work, you do need to surrender to the group. It can’t just be one person saying this is right and this is what we’re going to do.”
“But Cap has his reasons, he certainly has his reasons, and he is a good man and his moral compass is probably the cleanest,” Evans added. “This is a tough thing. This is what made it so interesting while we were filming, and it’s hopefully what will make the movie great is nobody’s right, nobody’s wrong. There’s no clear bad guy here. We both have a point of view, which is akin to most disagreements in life and politics.”
A gap in coverage
Kevin Feige apparently forgot to send the Marvel Snipers up to Toronto for TIFF because Collider got to ask Sebastian Stan, up there for The Martian, questions about Captain America: Civil War and he did not no-comment his way out of it.
Most of it is fanboying over CA:TWS, but of note for the future:
* The Ant-Man post-credits scene is a straight-up excerpt from CA:CW and, Stan estimates, it’s probably mid-movie.
* Nobody is sure which side the Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes is on, he says. Presumably, this is not a confusion that lasts forever, but in light of the above, it is maybe a confusion that lasts for the first half of the movie. Maybe all of it.
* He explicitly states that CA:CW is not Avengers 2.5, but instead a Russos-shaped Cap movie.
* And, on the aesthetics front, the look he’s currently sporting is Marvel-required (presumably for reshoots) and he’d kinda like to cut his hair.
Saw Ant-Man yesterday, despite…well, everything I feel about it. I literally gasped and clutched my BFF’s arm when I saw the last piece of music in the credits, though–”50 Year Old Ghost Story,” composed by Henry Jackman. I couldn’t really hear the music in the cam rip of the Steve and Bucky and Sam tag, but definitely could in the theatre, and that credit convinces me that the scene is from Cap3 and not a fake-out filmed just for Ant-Man.
FYI all the news articles talked about the director seeing the dailies of cap3 when he was editing Antman. He thought it was a great way to tag Antman back into Civil War. It is actually a trimmed down/excerpt from a Cap3 scene.
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