HUNTING MODULE.#okay i’ts incredibility fascinating to me to see the base of the winter soldier in bucky#and the reflection of bucky in the winter soldier#how do you carve the person out but leave the skills?
Tag: performance
Ok, I’m probably the last one to notice this, but even if I am, I’m bringing it up again bc it’s very important and very sad and I need to cry about it.
I’ve seen this scene about 50 times now and not once did I bother to take a closer look at Bucky. Specifically, his eyes. I always thought he was looking at Schmidt or in the general direction of the two while I focused on Steve’s face and what was happening. Now, obv, Steve is looking at Schmidt bc he’s being confronted and all that. But look at Bucky. Compare his gaze in the 3rd gif to Steve’s. It’s not trained on Schmidt. He’s looking directly at Zola and his face looks like a mixture of fear, anger and like he’s gonna puke. All of which would make sense after you imagine the shit Zola put him through on that table before Steve showed up. Just try to imagine one scenario that could be happening in his head here. Like reliving the parts where they tortured him and experimented on him, slowly took away the control of his own mind, tried to take his memories so he had to keep reminding himself who he was and began the process of turning him into god only knew what. When Steve found Bucky, he looked like he had no idea what was going on around him. No awareness that the alarm went off, soldiers abandoning their posts, the doctors scurrying off to safety. He didn’t realize he was alone in the room and no one was looking after him anymore. He just repeated his name and number over and over again and if Steve hadn’t found him, he’d have went down with the building while completely lost to his surroundings. After Steve got him out I imagine he didn’t have much time to dwell on the things they did to him. Until now. Until he saw Zola’s face and it hit him like a truck and the result was that face above.
Little did he know that even if they do get out of here alive, he was eventually gonna end up right back where he was and Zola would get to finish what he started and if that doesn’t fuck you up…i don’t even. fuck this movie and fuck these characters i did not sign up for this pain
Okay seriously, I’ve never seen this guy get any credit, but check this out. Steve had just given his speech that Hydra had infiltrated SHIELD and Project Insight was their means of taking total control. Project Insight, which must have taken hundreds of mislead SHIELD employees several months if not years to get this far, and suddenly all priorities are reversed with a few words from the Star Spangled Man With A Plan. So when Rumlow marches in and orders this kid to go through with it, he stares him down for a good 20 seconds, demanding “Is there a problem?” twice in the process. Everyone else is watching in tense silence. This guy is clearly terrified and probably in shock knowing everything he worked for was a Hydra crafted lie, but he sticks with his morals and finally works up the courage to say no, not happening. This is everyday heroism, on par with the man in the Avengers who stood up to Loki when he ordered everyone to kneel. It’s sticking up for what’s right, even in the face of repercussions and knowing your actions alone won’t stop what’s happening. At least you had the strength of character to do the right thing, when it would have been so much easier to follow along and not make yourself a target.
Give this kid a medal.
This guy is one of my favourite characters in the film, purely because of Aaron Himelstein’s performance. He is so, so wonderfully believably human, and it’s moments of realistic heroism that help stop Cap 2 from being just another film about people with highly specialised and/or superhuman abilities doing things that push the boundaries of plausability. This kid’s moment of defiance is such a small dramatic moment when compared to the epic battle that follows, but its enormity in terms of importance to the film as a whole should not be underestimated.
Also – Sharon Carter totally saves this character’s life a few seconds later. When she and Rumlow start fighting, she kicks the kid’s chair out from under him so he doesn’t get shot (because he’s rabbit-frozen), and he hits the floor and is able to hide under a desk.
Clintasha
Both of them are just so immaculate in this scene. So intense and understated, especially Renner. That tight little swallow, like he’s pushing down bile.
Iron Man 3 Visual Effects
He flipped himself over….. RDJ is a stunt man!
One of the things that Hollywood seems incapable of appreciating is that actors in movies with special effects have to either 1. act to nothing because literally nothing is there, 2. react and pretend something is happening because again, nothing is happening, and 3. interact with characters that will later be put into the scene with special effects.
This example is just one of many. Think about what you’ve seen, not only in the past decade or so of CGI, but before then when Star Wars (the originals) revolutionized the whole of sci-fi fantasy films. Hollywood rolls its eyes, reaps the benefits with the ‘popcorn movies’ but rarely (if ever) rewards them. The Return of the King was a fluke that probably will never be repeated. It’s one reason I will always ALWAYS talk about the acting skills of those in these films (and the directing prowess), because it isn’t easy. At all.
So thank you to all the actors, directors, production teams, special effects teams, etc. You made it possible and I, for one, am grateful.
No, I don’t think so. I think he thinks it’s strange. Then again, the circumstances are weird. Bucky gets rescued by this new Steve. For all we know, Bucky is on an operating table thinking he might never come out. That he might never again see the light of day. So for him, every time he comes back from war, he’s like, “Here’s another chance to think whether it’s worth going back. I’m alive. I’m here for one night. I want to live life.” I don’t think it’s jealousy so much, but he doesn’t really have much of a choice because I think for him there’s an element of, “Okay I’m going to go fight and I will survive this one mission and then I’ll come back and I’ll not go back.” But the problem is that he has no choice because Steve’s going and he never lets Steve go by himself. So I think the protective nature of a parent or a brother was was always there. It wasn’t like, “Steve’s this muscle guy and I want to be him.” It’s more like, “Oh god—he’s grown up and what do I do?”
Sebastian Stan’s response to Do you think Bucky almost wishes he was the one turned into a super soldier? (x)
I knew that gif reminded me of something.
Steve Rogers may not have seen Brando in a film, but I can guarantee you Chris Evans has.
I FUCKING KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING FAMILIAR AND WEIRD ABOUT THAT SMILE, BUT I COULDN’T PLACE IT. OH MY GOD.
Marlon Brando would’ve been the obvious choice to play Captain America in the MCU. Just saying.
Can we talk about Steve here? The way he’s looking at the Tesseract. He must be thinking “how could something this small cause so much pain?” The war it started, the years it cost him… the friends he lost…
can I just-
this is the only closure Steve gets for the war. That the weapon that fueled Schmidt’s maniacal search for power beyond what the Reich could give him, the weapon that created the backbone of Hydra’s weaponry, the weapon that contributed to Bucky’s fall, to the bombs on the plane, to Steve’s decision to down the plane {ten days} and then everything he lost because of that-
this is the only closure Steve gets for losing everything.
Look at him. Steve Rogers is not the kind of guy who experiences hatred, but he fucking hates that thing.
It’s literally until you don’t have dialogue when you get to that point of realising how much communicating we do with speaking and talking. I didn’t have that. I was super-aware of having just eyes to work with, but it made the job more interesting. Sebastian Stan on the Winter Soldier’s physicality
#that might be the first time he smiles in the whole of avengers {via ink-phoenix}
#it is #i watched it again to make sure #on screen the last time he smiles before this is when he’s teasing Bucky about Coney Island
(via thunderboltsortofapenny)
Sad.
Always reblog this bit of meta. The first time Steve Rogers smiles genuinely in the MCU since 1945, and it’s because Tony’s prattling about shawarma.
knitting in the dark 