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natashabucks:

Joe Russo: We always said that the whole movie lives or dies on that last scene between him and Bucky. You know, this third act is a fait accompli in a way. It’s a superhero movie.

Steve McFeely: I suspect he will win.

Joe Russo: The expectation is that he will win. But the real story is will he win Bucky, will he save his friend, will his friend kill him, will he have to kill his friend? The tragedy of that moment was the most important thing to us as directors in the third act. That’s the real climax of the act. 

Steve McFeely: Yeah, from jump street we always worked towards getting to: “I will sacrifice myself in order to reach my friend.” And so “end of the line” has been the line since the very beginning. And Sebastian nails it, it cracks him. 

Chris Markus: Again, it’s about Steve trying to save his past.

Joe Russo: It’s the last thing he has left.

– Captain America: The Winter Soldier Blu-ray Audio Commentary

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“This is another moment where Redford really makes the villain human, he’s got a point. That’s the thing: authoritarianism is rearing its head again. The movie tests philosophy. He’s a bureaucrat who is not much further than the bureaucrats we’ve all come to know in our lives. His thinking is just an extrapolation of a kill list, which is if there are ten individuals deemed dangerous do you have the right to kill them? What if there’s a thousand? Well, what if there’s ten thousand or if there’s a million? At what point, if we can effectively psychologically profile people, then we have one? And what are the constraints of that profile? Where do you draw the line?”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“People have asked, “Why do they go to a mall?” Look, they’ve got nowhere else to go. The government is watching everything that they own. This was just their choice of the best place they can escape from successfully, a Widow’s choice, really: put yourself in a public space where there’re a lot of people so you can just disappear into the crowd. It’d probably make Steve nervous, ‘cause that’s the last place he’d pick. He would choose a clear ground where there would be no civilians. We were hoping that would come through in a subtext as she sort of directs Steve out of the mall without incident. For her, this was never about punching her way out, this was ‘we’re gonna sneak right out under their noses’. Because they’re looking for Cap, they’re not looking for Cap and Widow at this point. They don’t know Widow is involved yet.”