Tag: steve rogers

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“If you’re not a comic book fan, when you think ‘Captain America’, you probably think ‘jingoist’, a propaganda piece. But if you know the comics, every time something happens in the world, he gets to address it: the hippies, the civil rights movement, the Watergate. And our MCU Cap missed all that, he missed 9/11. So he gets to address where we are now without having seen what forced us to make these decisions. He did not have the same slow descent into the cynicism that we all had over the last 40 years. He comes out with fresh eyes.

One of the great things in the comics that we hoped to replicate in the movie is that his reaction is never the sort of knee-jerk old man conservative reaction you would think the man dressed in an American flag would have. He exemplifies the spirit of America, not a party, not a government. He’s never going to fall on a political line. He stands for an ideal and he stands for principles that are translatable across the board. What he is against in this film is subversion, subterfuge and lies, that line between freedom and fear.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“We’re heading towards the midpoint of the movie where in conspiracy thrillers you figure out who’s after you and what the truth is, so you can turn around and go forward. And we hit upon the idea that the secret place they went to find the answers to was where Steve was, in essence, born, where it all began. This scene of Steve seeing himself in the past was a very talked about sequence. We all knew we wanted to intimate some sort of memory from him. Using footage from the previous film seemed like a cop out, so we were trying to find a new way to express again this identity crisis he’s going through, and also to remind the audience of what this place actually was. So we tried to externalize it, use these ghosts running through the location so that you get context for it. But also that moment where he stares at himself is a very sad moment. Again, it’s, “What have I lost and what have I gained?”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“The kiss was something that we contemplated, “Can we do it? Can we not do it?” It’s such an old trope, and it was also the debate of whether there would be romance between them for real in the movie. Eventually we decided not to do it as: (a) there is no time, and (b) it sort of sells both characters short that the only reason to have Black Widow is so that there could be sexual tension. But kisses are always fun, plus it leads to the conversation [later in the car] which really cracks Steve open.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“One of the more memorable lines by Cap in the film is, “This isn’t freedom, this is fear.” It’s probably the theme of the movie. That’s what he chooses to stand against in the film. There were a couple lines that when we got them really crystallized where he stood. That was one of them, another coming later was, “I guess I just like to know who I’m fighting.” This really helped to understand where this guy, who might seem one-dimensional to some people, works in the machinery of the story.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“It’s such a great moment there with Chris Evans and Robert Redford. People have remarked how in an earlier age Robert could have played Captain America. It’s really nice how they are two peas in a pot. There’s just a wonderful game of chess going on between these two characters. You get to see Cap, who you wouldn’t think would be equipped to play this kind of game, is actually equipped to play it a little bit. And the whole thing builds towards a very critical moment for him as a character where he is forced to lie. Who does he trust: does he trust Fury or does he trust Pierce?”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“As small as [this scene] is, it’s a great window into Steve Rogers. He does not know how to ask a girl out. A journalist who we were talking to loved the idea that Cap could clear the elevator but have trouble asking a girl out. A great character paradox but that’s the thing: he is always the 90-pound guy. That guy is still in there, and has not had any time to improve his life skills. Even though he was in ‘show business’, on the USO tour, he was fumbling then. He’s not good at it.”

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:

“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.”