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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:

“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 had a long conversation with Kevin [Feige] about this scene because he didn’t want Captain America to turn into the Hulk. And we said, “No, listen, the scene is about illustrating his desire to catch this guy. This shows his dogged determination to stop the Winter Soldier because now he feels responsible in some way for Fury’s death.” The great thing about Steve is also his level of guilt. As much as he was pissed at Fury, now he’s got burden to bear for the rest of the film.“

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“You can see actually how violent he is with her. Again, it’s a guy who’s dealing with liars, he’s in over his head. Cap is fraying a little bit. You see him going places where he wouldn’t normally go. But also, he is treating her like an equal, both physically and mentally. She’s in Avengers, she’s on the team.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“We always said that the whole movie lives or dies on that last scene between him and Bucky. It’s a superhero movie, 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.
The whole film comes down to this minute and a half. Steve is trying to save his past. It’s the last thing he has left, really.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“There was some debate whether to have this moment of memory loss but it just works so well in terms of everything  being taken from Steve. Even his one friend is ceasing to exist before his eyes. For us that was the most interesting component of him as a character: when do you get to see a character who has lost everything? Everything in his life is being stripped away from him. 
You could look at that Rip Van Winkle idea and play into the fantasy aspect of it all, “Oh isn’t it fun to go to the future and experience something you never would have?” But you equally have to appreciate the tragedy of it, the loss of it, the cost of it. At the end of the day, all great superheroes have something very tragic in their experience. And this is part of Steve’s tragedy.”

agent13ofthessr:

alexander pierce and wilson fisk are the mcu’s scariest, most effective villains not because they can control armies of aliens/robots/whatever, but because they can control people. they are frightening because they are absolutely ruthless in the ways in which they manipulate, intimidate, and flat-out murder people to further their own ends.

they are believable because we can identify with their concern and love for those they care about; they do not exist in a vacuum. they have daughters and grandchildren and girlfriends and mothers, and they care about their loved ones. 

and they are horrifying because they believe that what they are doing is right. they aren’t in the game for the sheer love of being evil; they’re in it because they believe so fervently that their way is the best way–because they conflate the expedience of eliminating “undesirables” with doing the right thing.

pierce and fisk are terrifying and i love it.

writing trauma & survival: a Marvel primer

ladyofthelog:

After several months of reading and writing in Marvel fandom, I decided that I wanted to write a primer on trauma from the perspective of being a trauma survivor and coming from a disability studies background. You might be interested in the stuff in here if you’re writing about Bucky post-CATWS, Sam’s counseling practice, or the experiences of any number of Marvel characters. I’m drawing on a variety of articles, zines, and books, all of which are available to read online or download.

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