Tag: bucky barnes

narramin:

onyourleftbooob:

*Huge Captain America: Civil War spoilers ahead*

Reply from Markus and Mcfeely when they were asked why it was necessary to put The Winter Soldier back on ice in this podcast at the 5:30 mark:

“Well, because for one thing he is, give or take his intellectual capacity, 100% guilty and to have Steve just running around getting fruit salads with him on some island, it’s a little too unpunished in a way.
This is not a guy who should be running around happily, he may not be a 100% guilty but he’s damn sure not a 100% innocent”

So their way of punishing Bucky for being brainwashed and tortured and not having a say in what he could or could not do and not remembering who he was for more than 70 years was to put him on ice. Fucking hell.

I think you misunderstand what they said.

They could have set him up in a much more sinister way, a way that’d really make him look guilty.

Insted, the movie literally begins with a brutal torture scene, to remind everyone who might have forgotten since the CA:The Winter Soldier that he was incapable of resisting, that he was being treated like a piece of meat. That he literally had his fucking brain electrocuted every. singe. time he was dragged to the chair, not even capable of standing yet.

And don’t even get me started on the bank vault scene, with the flashback he had of having his arm removed and all the medical horror, and his desperate attempts to remember Steve. This movie referred back even to that, Rumlow literally saying ’…until we put his brain back in the blender’.

This is not how you set up a guilty person.

This is how you set up one that has to deal with a shitton of guilt.

Bucky is a good, a truly good man, one that could not get over the things he was made to do easily. He’s the guy who stopped fighting the moment he realised that Spiderman was just a funking kid for fucks sake. The ‘I don’t know if I’m worth all this/ I still did it’ lines illustrate it petty well. He still blames himself, even knowing that he was just another victim too.

The writers know that perfectly well, and when they say that it’d go a little unpunished, they only mean that a man like Bucky Barnes wound never let himself off the hook that easy, that it’d be a gross mischaracterisation to have him just shrug it off with an ‘ehh’.

No, they want to give him every step and moment of his own redemption arc he deserves, on his own terms, step by step and I’m fucking grateful for that.

thekingandthelionheart:

nomadssteverogers:

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

#what i like about this choreography is probably accidental but #bucky is just. going. he’s just getting in as many hits as he can as fluidly as he can #with the additional imperative of getting the shield to steve #bucky ACCEPTS the shield as part of the fluid motion of his style; steve WAITS to throw it to him until he’s on the backswing to catch it #steve waits a lot in this scene. he waits until bucky’s repositioned; has caught or thrown the shield; got his shot in #steve is at this point mostly support for bucky. he loses initiative more than once just in this clip whereas bucky never does #steve does get a few solid shots in! but he’s pretty turn-based here. he’s just filling the gaps bucky can’t #it may be a fatigue thing; bucky’s additional ‘get shield to steve’ imperative is his own awareness that bucky has a built-in weapon #and steve does not. steve’s probably blocked more shots with his body at this point and just needs a breather here and there #regardless of the reason for bucky’s fluidity here versus steve’s stop-and-start is that #bucky jumped back into this fight when he could have escaped. this is after steve dragged tony all the fuckin way back down to the bottom #and bucky jumped after with the shield (get shield to steve) for no reason except protection #and assistance. and yet it’s bucky who’s working his shit out here the most #taking in sebstan’s “you tell a bully what you want to hear sometimes” meta and it’s like… bucky is here to help steve in the fight #they read each other so well even now that their styles have evolved so much #but once he’s in a fight bucky dominates momentum-wise. his energy is a lot more brute force than steve’s but #he’s going for it. maybe fuelled by anger or maybe old alleyway protectiveness kicking in again. fight or the cost is high. #meta du jour i guess. this scene is what got me into this ship so. here we are. thanks for reading (via newsbypostcard)

iamnotsebastianstan-archive:

not for nothing but im still not over Bucky telling Steve he didn’t know if he was worth all this, and then 20 minutes later Steve is dropping the shield and the captain america mantle and picking up Bucky like “yeah you’re worth all this, you’re worth everything to me, i won’t ever have you believe otherwise”