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.”
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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:
“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:
“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 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.”
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:
“This is a very important moment in the movie ‘cause again this plays into the reality of what the stakes are for our characters. Natasha is genuinely afraid. This is the second time she’s been shot by him. If it was not for Steve, she would have been dead.”
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:
“This is the revelation of Bucky. We wanted to do it when the whole world was falling in on Steve. To find out that the one thing he thought he knew was not even true was like having the final rug pulled out from under him. The worst thing that could happen to Steve is “my best friend, who I thought was dead, is a killing machine”. It’s so rare that you have such an emotional connection between a hero and a villain. Best friends turned into mortal enemies is in a way even more tragic.”
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