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sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“One of the more memorable lines by Cap in the film is, “This isn’t freedom, this is fear.” It’s probably the theme of the movie. That’s what he chooses to stand against in the film. There were a couple lines that when we got them really crystallized where he stood. That was one of them, another coming later was, “I guess I just like to know who I’m fighting.” This really helped to understand where this guy, who might seem one-dimensional to some people, works in the machinery of the story.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“It’s such a great moment there with Chris Evans and Robert Redford. People have remarked how in an earlier age Robert could have played Captain America. It’s really nice how they are two peas in a pot. There’s just a wonderful game of chess going on between these two characters. You get to see Cap, who you wouldn’t think would be equipped to play this kind of game, is actually equipped to play it a little bit. And the whole thing builds towards a very critical moment for him as a character where he is forced to lie. Who does he trust: does he trust Fury or does he trust Pierce?”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“As small as [this scene] is, it’s a great window into Steve Rogers. He does not know how to ask a girl out. A journalist who we were talking to loved the idea that Cap could clear the elevator but have trouble asking a girl out. A great character paradox but that’s the thing: he is always the 90-pound guy. That guy is still in there, and has not had any time to improve his life skills. Even though he was in ‘show business’, on the USO tour, he was fumbling then. He’s not good at it.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“Opening the movie in more of a light way, when it hasn’t turned dark yet, was really valuable. It was a nice transition from what’s come before [in the MCU] to where we were gonna go. We can only do that in the early scenes of the film because as soon as things get tense, they get very tense. And we needed to plant Falcon. If the movie is going into conspiracy, and they’re gonna need to find an outsider they can trust, you gotta introduce him really early, give him a reason to be genuine and trustworthy. It reminds you that they’re regular people. If you start in costume beating up bad guys, it distances you from that human side.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“This 1st act [of the movie] is all about him trying to find an identity. We wanted to give him some great character moments that really illustrated existential crisis that he’s going through. In no other movie could you have a character walking through their life at the Smithsonian. It happens to work for Cap’s Rip Van Winkle story, it happens to work for who he was in WWII, but it also puts him in a unique situation. He’s constantly asking, “Who am I?” Even his past is not his anymore, it’s history. Everyone here can go look at who he was. You really start to feel how alone and isolated he is, and that his life is gone. Even though he is an incredibly proficient fighter now, he has no identity, really doesn’t. He’s working for S.H.I.E.L.D., he’s got a relationship with Natasha and Fury, but it’s not substantial. And he doesn’t know who he is.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“Chris worked his butt off for four months doing gymnastics and stunt training so in a scene like this he could go toe-to-toe with Georges St-Pierre and make it look really credible. Once the helmet comes off, 95% of that is Chris, except obviously for that massive aerial kick that he does. I think he did a fantastic job.”

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.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“It comes up a lot, “Why Natasha and not every other Avenger?” We wanted to put Steve’s clear-eyed view of our world against a person who absolutely inhabits this world. Today’s politics is a little gray, a little morally questionable; ethics get folded for any particular instance. She represents that perfectly. And when you put those two characters with those two world views together, you’re gonna get friction, but you’re also gonna get a chance for each of them to affect the other.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“Steve’s arc is not like other people’s arcs. He doesn’t have his dark nights of the soul. It can be a failing in the character if you don’t do it right. But the idea that he sees things clearly and gets other people to change their points of view is ultimately heroic. He does it on a gigantic scale. He reshapes the country if not the world to fit his views when no one agrees with him just by standing still.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“We always wanted to approach Sam through the prism of being a fellow veteran, someone who could speak to Steve on that level as opposed to in awe of him because he’s Captain America. Also it brought the idea that Steve, in addition to everything else he’s gone through, spent 4 years in WWII. That’s very traumatic stuff. And he has never had a chance to decompress about any of it.

This is probably the hardest scene in the movie because it leads to one of the the biggest buys in the film: that Cap is gonna go back to the guy he met jogging on the Mall when his life is in danger because he’s the only guy he can trust. So it’s important that these two connect on a very deep and emotional level in this scene.”