on closer inspection, you can see that they used different takes for the individual scenes and the alternate take is somehow even more gut-wrenching
Okay but how amazing is this in terms of attention to detail? Because very, very few people have a photographic memory, and the Winter Soldier – whose brain is essentially electrified pudding at this point – most certainly wouldn’t have total recall, even of a single instant that very clearly shook him, to the point of destroying his conditioning and requiring a full reboot. This is the kind of detail that no one is going to notice who isn’t obsessively watching the movie over and over (aka, us), but they still did it – and maybe more painful still, the alternate take (Bucky’s memory) is quieter, somehow; it seems to be a take where Chris Evans is taking a quieter approach to the line. Bucky’s rewriting the memory in his head, trying to work out how he knows “the man on the bridge” – and it isn’t his own name, really, that’s causing his confusion. It’s Steve’s face, perhaps, but it’s the way he’s saying his name; the way he’s said it all their lives. And maybe, just maybe, that’s why Bucky’s reworked the memory in his head, shifted it, just a little – made it softer, made it a little more quiet. Because what has him in knots isn’t just this one, single moment; it’s the way that moment calls up echoes of his old self – the man who heard this voice a thousand times, who called him this, over and over…and, very likely, who said it a little more like in his memories: softer, more intimate. Bucky’s taken away some of the shock; he’s focused on the part that’s truly confused him, all soft lights and blurred camera and utter impossibility: he’s focused on affection.
the first one is disbelief/incredulity; the second one is just ANGUISH
Barney and Clint’s signing is superbasic and poorly taught (by a hearing person) ASL augmented with a fuckton of homesign they just made up, so when Clint’s using ASL with a regular deaf person it’s pretty normal, if stiff and antiquated with weird grammar, but his sign with Barney is the sign equivalent of a madeup language like Klingon. They’re the only two speakers of it in the world, which makes for its own subset of weird pun-signs, creative swearing and invention.
OKAY but do you think Nat and/or Bucky learn formal ASL to speak with Clint, or do they pick up his random excited, pun-filled babble he has with Barney?
I think Nat picked up Clint’s unique sign SUPER FAST, after the first few times Clint got wasted with her and started making jokes in sign rather than speech. (*tries to explain joke* “Oh, wait, that doesn’t work in words, let me teach you this in sign so you understand why it’s hilarious.” etc) Clint has absolutely given her a namesign that he is under orders from her never to explain to hearing people.
I think Bucky also picked it up fast, but he mainly uses it to come up with new ways of telling Clint what a dumpster fire and dumbass he is, and also to trash talk when they’re using the range together with ear defenders on (or while in actual combat situations).
(I may have an interest in sign language and have written a Clint/Phil series that heavily deals with Clint’s deafness and deaf identity.)
“He understands his circumstances but it doesn’t make him feel less responsible. The horror lies in feeling helpless. It’s as you wake up from a nightmare, and you have that brief moment of relief as you understand you were just dreaming, but then you realize it actually happened. You just couldn’t stop it.”
Does anyone have the Stucky fic where Steve is a baker and Bucky is a wedding planner who is a total ass? And Steve doesn’t know cute guy he’s seeing is actually James the Jerk who tries to get him to make lots of cupcakes last minute?
You know when someone comes at you over and over and over again, and they can’t hear you; they can’t see. You’re pleading with them, you’re trying to figure out how to get through to them and they just won’t accept it. And at some point, you just give in and you go “that’s right… that’s what you wanted.”
knitting in the dark 