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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.]

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“In the MCU where you’ve got these dynamic visual characters like the Hulk, Iron Man and
Thor, how do you introduce a guy who glides and talks to birds? All of us pushed for this militaristic
approach to him. Basically, he is a human fighter jet. Sam gets some of the
more dynamic sequences here which is great because it’s really our hope that in
the movie he doesn’t come across as a sidekick, he comes across as a partner to
Cap. It was on the agenda of everyone to make sure that he occupied his own
story space in the movie and didn’t feel like an afterthought. This mission
would not have been accomplished without his contribution.”

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:

“[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:

“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.”

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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