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Monty Granito Talks ‘Captain America: The Winter Solder’ Previs

technologybehindmagic:

If you are interested in previsualization, especially the previs of Marvel’s Captain American: The Winter Soldier click the above link! This is an interview with Previsualization Supervisor Monty Granito from Proof Inc. 

What’s Previsualization? It is a visual development process that has been around for many years, yet hardly anyone outside the studio knows about it! If you’re interested in visual development I highly suggest you read  this interview and then look into the subject of previsualization. 

Monty Granito Talks ‘Captain America: The Winter Solder’ Previs

Stop taking Bucky’s arm: Bodily autonomy and re-traumatizing events in MCU fandom

chaoticallyclev:

Dear MCU fandom,

Captain America: The Winter Soldier brought all sorts of fun stuff into fandom recently, Sam Wilson for one, Natasha awkwardly explaining her own jokes, Cap continuing to show no love to windows, and the emotional wallop of the Winter Soldier arc. There’s also been a massive influx of fic and that’s great, I love it. But we need to talk about something and furthermore, I need people to stop doing something:

Stop taking Bucky’s arm.

This keeps popping up in fic after fic and there are some really damaging elements at play here that are building a toxic narrative. This is not to say that if you’ve incorporated this into one of your fics that you are bad you should feel bad, but I think a lot people don’t really know how problematic this set-up is and why it is so problematic. This is me trying to explain.

By taking his arm, there is an immediate violation of his bodily autonomy and a reasonably high risk of a re-traumatizing event.

Bodily autonomy is crucial to the narrative of CA:TWS since stripping Bucky of his autonomy, deconstructing his entire sense of self, was exactly how HYDRA created the Winter Soldier.

Warning: the post will discuss disregard of bodily autonomy, disabilities, and trauma in accordance with these same elements as seen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Please keep your own self-care in mind.

Disclaimer: This touches on some really complicated stuff in regards to disability identities and I know I am absolutely not the best situated to talk about a lot of this just because I have taken some course dealing with it. I am not trying to talk over or define anyone’s personal experience with this and please drop me a line if I have put my foot in it. The goal of this is to try and confront some problematic trends in this fandom, not to further propagate damaging narratives so please do correct me if I’m doing that anywhere.

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recidivae:

jamie-sf:

recidivae:

MARVEL, I’VE GOT BEEF. Been doing some research on WW2 army serial numbers. For reasons *coughtattoocough*. And then I was doing some research on WW2 dog tags, for other reasons *coughgraphiccough*. (PS, Bucky’s service number actually belonged to a Peter A Stoll of New…

Not sure if this is helpful or not:

1. It was not uncommon for someone that was drafted to then enlist (my uncle did it for Vietnam). Enlisting gets you much better assignments and sometimes a choice of duty station. You often get to pick your MOS (military job) or at least apply for one of your choice. It’s possible that Bucky did this for exactly those reasons. There was definitely a culture in the Vietnam era that led to guys enlisting for the longer hitch (3 years instead of 2 for a draft) if it was a far less shitty job.

2. Next of kin – (I’m a US Army vet from the 2000’s). I can tell you that to the best of my knowledge you can designate anyone as your next of kin that you like on the form.  If you don’t, they look for living relatives next, and follow your state of residence laws after that. You are strongly urged to list *someone* on the next of kin forms, especially going into an active combat zone. That person gets notified if you are hurt or killed, gets your death benefits, etc.

Psssht with that “#unsolicited answers,” it was totally solicited. If my frustrated caps lock/flailing doesn’t scream “help me!” I just don’t know what does (aside from actually screaming “help me,” but I digress). I am always fishing for insight! The military is a confusing maze of rules and language to which I am not very accustomed, so thank you! This does help clear things up a bit for me.

So I’m happy to offer up insight/answers/pointers on US Army stuff. Military culture and language can be obscure from the outside and I can give you pointers, if you’d like them.

And to answer the earlier question – tetanus. When you go through basic you literally walk down a row of doctors/nurses who give you a whole series of shots. It’s likely that he got his series then. And then again right before they put him and everyone else on a boat. The military is very careful that way – everyone gets everything at the start of joining and before going into an active theater, especially if it is in another environment where you’ll need specialized innoculations (malaria, for example).

recidivae:

MARVEL, I’VE GOT BEEF. Been doing some research on WW2 army serial numbers. For reasons *coughtattoocough*. And then I was doing some research on WW2 dog tags, for other reasons *coughgraphiccough*. (PS, Bucky’s service number actually belonged to a Peter A Stoll of New…

Not sure if this is helpful or not:

1. It was not uncommon for someone that was drafted to then enlist (my uncle did it for Vietnam). Enlisting gets you much better assignments and sometimes a choice of duty station. You often get to pick your MOS (military job) or at least apply for one of your choice. It’s possible that Bucky did this for exactly those reasons. There was definitely a culture in the Vietnam era that led to guys enlisting for the longer hitch (3 years instead of 2 for a draft) if it was a far less shitty job.

2. Next of kin – (I’m a US Army vet from the 2000’s). I can tell you that to the best of my knowledge you can designate anyone as your next of kin that you like on the form.  If you don’t, they look for living relatives next, and follow your state of residence laws after that. You are rstrongly urged to list *someone* on the next of kin forms, especially going into an active combat zone. That person gets notified if you are hurt or killed, gets your death benefits, etc.

boopboopbi:

James ‘Bucky’ Barnes, aka The Winter Soldier

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Has been tortured, brainwashed, mutilated, cryogenically frozen a few dozen times and manipulated into being everything he sacrificed his life to fight. Doesn’t know who ‘Bucky’ is.

Steven G. Rogers aka Captain America

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Has undergone…

wintersoldierfell:

It’s hot on the bus, and Bucky’s trying hard to keep away from the people next to him. People are full of strange smells and textures, perfumed with chemicals he doesn’t recognize. They smell like sweat and food, and none of it is like he remembers. He pulls his hat down and watches people board.

A girl gets on the bus and pauses at the front to rummage in her purse for a token. She’s got brightly colored clips in her hair, a denim vest studded with shining buttons, and short shorts that reveal a muscular brown thigh and calf. But that’s not why Bucky suddenly finds himself staring.

He’s looking at the other leg.

The bottom section looks like a piston, one thin metal bar sliding into a mechanism whose workings seem to be mostly hidden where the prosthetic disappears into the girl’s boot. The top is larger, and above the knee joint, there’s a large cylindrical casing almost the volume of the girl’s other thigh. The casing is painted, covered entirely with an astonishingly vivid range of blues, violets, turquoises, sea-greens, creams, and golds. Somewhere in the back of his mind, his memory spits out the name Claude Monet, and water lilies, and an image of a blond-haired boy standing beside him, mouth open in wonder.

Bucky’s heart thumps hard in his chest, and when the girl sits down across from him and pulls out a book, all he can do is stare, because abruptly she’s the most amazing thing in the world: a person who’s made herself whole.

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ani-bester:

star-anise:

bibliothekara:

the-linaerys:

sonhoedesrazao:

#he’s too pretty and too smart in this scene#its overwhelming

REBLOGGING FOR TAGS: #and Steve is never really surprised by how shitty people can be#just disappointed#very disappointed#Captain America is very disappointed

*THOSE TAGS*

*now has many thinky thoughts about Steve Rogers and Night Watch and Young Sam Vimes*

The third gif is what keeps getting me.

He sees all these people getting on preparing to attack him, and they are all the faces of men he has worked with over the last few weeks and months, maybe years.  Men he’s trusted.  Lives he’s saved.  Comrades in arms.  His team, as much as he’s had one.

That is the look of bleakness, as someone else gets on and Steve thinks, “You?  I liked you.  I thought you were better than this.  Oh god, don’t make me do this.”

(Sometimes the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger)

But these aren’t people he’ll lie down for.  This is a fight he’ll pick his shield up after.  There’s nobody in this elevator he loves enough.

Reblogging again because the comments got better.