Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:
“What a pivotal moment in the movie narratively and on a character level for him to be looking for a friend and for her to tell him ‘no’. There are a few call-back lines in the movie, and that’s one of them, ‘You might be in the wrong business.‘”
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:
“This is a really great illustrative moment of the relationship between these two guys and the trust that they have. There was a lot of conversation about how Falcon would carry Cap without it looking like a bit from Saturday Night Live. I think we got it right. ”
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:
“This is a very detailed description of how Steve Rogers essentially failed in his mission. He thought he died to destroy HYDRA, but HYDRA did so much better after he had left than before.”
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?”
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.”
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:
“This is a very detailed description of how Steve Rogers essentially failed in his mission. He thought he died to destroy HYDRA, but HYDRA did so much better after he had left than before.”
Okay so seeing this gif makes me want to give major props to the set dressers as well as the cinematographer. The meta – let me show you it.
In the background between Sam and Steve we have a very modern style generic veteran poster. The words you can just make out ‘You Fought For Us, We Fight For You.” Appropriate for Sam on several levels, especially as we go into the second half of the movie where Sam chooses to fight for Cap. They give him that specific dialog ‘Hey, Captain America needs my help’.
Behind Steve we literally have his past. We have an old school (this style of illustration became popular during WW2 and except when you want to hit the nostalgia hard, stopped being used in the 1970s) illustration of an eagle in flight carrying a flag in its talons. So it not only echoes the propaganda that Steve himself would be used to seeing but they literally put it right behind his head, he’s stepping out of the past and into the future.
The spacing of the shot is very deliberate too. You have Sam in open space, moving back and forth a bit as he speaks (yes, this is also Mackie’s style but they gave him room to move). He’s backlit by the open door. Steve is, from this angle, very grounded against the door frame, the dark wooden column. He’s also standing very still. We do get a nod and a head tilt but his movements are slower and smaller than Sam’s. [I could do a whole other meta on body language in this movie but if you just look at the gif you can infer tons of stuff.]
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:
“What a pivotal moment in the movie narratively and on a character level for him to be looking for a friend and for her to tell him ‘no’. There are a few call-back lines in the movie, and that’s one of them, ‘You might be in the wrong business.‘”
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:
“You think
Pierce’s come down and the assassin is here to kill him, but the reversal is
he’s here for instructions. This sort of structure, where someone comes in to a
place thinking they’ll be alone and somebody is already there, happens 3 times
in the movie. It is slightly symbolic of the fact that HYDRA’s been there all
along. Fury’s there when Steve comes in, Winter Soldier is here, and Fury’s
there again later in the cave.”
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:
“This
is a really lovely scene between these two which really highlights the platonic
nature of their relationship. There’s actually love there that’s like a brother
and sister love. They’ve also changed each other. She’s blown all of her covers
in large part because Steve has showed her
that maybe you shouldn’t live such a morally murky life. She’s trying to push him towards Sharon.”
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