verysharpteeth:

thebestpersonherelovesbucky:

I’ve seen a bunch of posts wondering whether or not Marvel intended for people to feel so strongly about Bucky Barnes. My guess is yes, most definitely. 

While those creating the MCU did not create Bucky Barnes, they did make him who he is today. They birthed this take on the character. As a writer, I simply cannot imagine creating a character and not putting thought and effort into how much people are going to feel about them, what I hope they’ll feel and what I’m aiming for them to feel. I truly believe Marvel has done the same and is feeling an incredibly deserved sense of pride. 

When creating something, be it painting art, composing a song, writing a story, making a movie, it’s usually to both express and elicit emotion. That’s was art is. Emotion. Feelings. And trying to get others feel what you wanted them to feel while creating it. 

And I believe they had these intentions from the start of The First Avenger. In order for that movie to be a bigger success and get the green light to do further films in the series, they didn’t just need action-packed, adrenaline rushing scenes. They needed people to connect with emotion. They needed audiences to feel with Steve. They needed people to love Bucky like Steve did in order to feel Steve’s pain and loss when Bucky falls. And then all of that emotion hopefully (and successfully) would carry over into The Winter Soldier, even though it wasn’t officially “planned” yet. 

From the dialogue, the lack of dialogue, camera angles, coloring, score, directing, and let’s not forget the brilliant casting, I have no doubt that there are a bunch of people high-fiving at Marvel Studios right now, cheering that they got exactly what they’d hoped to get regarding Bucky Barnes. 

I also think they HAD to know exactly what they were doing casting Sebastian. I saw a lot of them saying “oh he’s a darker version of Cap” and “he’s edgy”, but they had to know his filmography and be aware that his bread and butter is playing very emotionally fragile, abused characters who physically put the viewer through pain watching them. I think they didn’t hire him so much based on him being edgy so much as he can play vulnerable and fragile so sympathetically. They wanted Bucky to have the swagger that Sebastian naturally has along WITH that brittle fragility. They meant for the audience not only to like Bucky, but to feel for him to the point of wanting to protect him. If they continue and make Bucky into Bucky Cap, the audience is ALREADY sympathetic to him. We don’t need an origin story movie or a lot of work making him likable, we already like him from Sebastian’s acting. He looks like a fragile kicked puppy because that’s a look Sebastian can do and I think the directing and casting KNOWS for a fact that it wasn’t so much just making the Winter Soldier something to be feared, but it was also making Bucky something to be pitied. We’re already rooting for him. They’ve got their set up for Bucky Cap with only minimal effort. It’s brilliant really.