Tag: steve rogers

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:

“I think people miss the concept. When you call the movie ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’, the notion of the Winter Soldier is from a quote from Paine about Summer Soldiers and Winter Soldiers. Winter Soldiers are the real soldiers ‘cause they are the soldiers who would fight through the winter. In a way, by Paine’s definition they are both Winter Soldiers, which is the great thing about the title.
People have said, “He is the titular character, why isn’t he more in the movie?” When really, Cap is the titular character. Cap is the Winter Soldier. The whole film is about a character who is the greatest of soldiers. He will fight through the darkest times and the coldest winter to see his principles through. That’s really what the movie is about.“

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.”

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“We stripped a lot of the color out of this film and out of the Marvel Universe. And it is all a choice that is a set up leading to that exact moment. When he returns to the uniform, he returns to his principles. The stealth outfit, the design of SHIELD headquarters The Triskelion – the grey and beige and sort of neutral colors that exist throughout the movie, the cold blues – are all there to serve in contrast and to represent the institutional nature of the organization and of the world that Cap is living in. And when he makes this choice to don his uniform, it’s the one real piece of color in the movie.”

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Bucky mentally preparing himself for death is so fucking upsetting because after all of the torture he went through, after all of the physical and mental pain, he survived because Steve saved him, and here he is ready to die for him. He lets himself have this moment of fear because he knows what’s coming, he knows that he’s going to die and he allows himself to accept how scared he really is. He knew what he was getting in to when he made the choice to fight side by side with Steve (because what other choice was there really?), and part of him probably always knew this was how it would end – he was either going to live for Steve or die for him, the only thing left for him to do was to acknowledge his unhappy ending when the time came.

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT POSITIONING BUCKY’S SACRIFICE AS HIS CHOICE MEANS THAT IT WAS THE LAST TIME HE EVER GOT TO EXERCISE HIS OWN FREE WILL.

But this is actually really important, though, looking through a biopolitical lens, because in fact that choice (his choice to sacrifice himself, to die) got taken away from him. His “resurrection” as the Winter Soldier is a denial of his right to die, his right to decide what to do with his life, his body. That type of control is a horror that we tend to think of as a horror above or beyond death; there is something worse than death, and it is losing what we think of as the basic embodied human right of inhabitation of, autonomy over one’s own body. That’s what he’s about to suffer, and it kind of turns this scene from tragedy into horror story.

Holy shit just.

This has been sitting on the edge of my consciousness for a while now and it’s so truly horrible.

And it parallels with Steve (although never as bad, Bucky is everything that could have gone wrong and did go wrong and Steve is everything that could have gone wrong and somehow went almost right) because the same thing happened to Steve, he put himself in the water, he died to save the world and then the world brought him back and he got to see that his sacrifice meant nothing and it’s no fucking wonder he was so willing to let Bucky kill him on the helicarrier he realised too well that you can fight the good fight but the FIGHT NEVER ENDS and Steve is just. so. tired.

I have been trying to put this into words for a while now. Ty.