“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. ”
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.]
“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. ”
“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.”
“Attention all S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. This is Steve Rogers. You’ve heard a lot about me in the past few days. Some of you were even ordered to hunt me down. But I think it’s time you know the truth. S.H.I.E.L.D. is not what we though it was. It’s been taken over by Hydra. Alexander Pierce is their leader. The strike and insight crew work for Hydra as well. I don’t know how many more but I know they are in the building. They could be standing right next to you. They almost have what they want. Absolute control. They shot Nick Fury and it won’t end there. If you launch those helicarriers today Hydra will be able to kill anyone that stands in their way unless we stop them. I know I am asking a lot but the price of freedom is high… it always has been, and it’s a price I am willing to pay. And if I am the only one, so be it. But I am willing to be that I am not.”
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