I was looking for metas about this scene, but I couldn’t find anything, so decided to say several words myself.
Firstly, I made one gifset and captioned it as glare of death and people wrote that Bucky looks like he’s about to cry or has already cried. Tbh, I think it’s both. Great thing about this scene, to my mind, is not if he’s feeling anger or pain, but the fact that he’s definetely feeling something here!
As I remember, we only see two moments where Bucky is feeling something. First one is this:
Here, he’s angry af. Before this moment, we see hydra agents shooting wildly, but WS is calm, he casually walks and shoots for like two or three times only. But when Nat breaks his glasses(sorry, don’t know what they’re called), he becomes crazy and starts shooting without aiming properly. He feels anger and frustration.
Second one is a bit of confusion and hesitation:
(not my gif)
Throughout the whole movie, what catches our eyes is how calm ws is. He isn’t running, he never is in a hurry. Of course, he kills people, fights like an assassin, but he is always laid-back and really relaxed.
But in the final scenes, he acts like a crazy. WS’ actions are so brutal. Although he is sent to missions to kill people, I don’t think that winter soldier is allowed to make them personal. I mean that he must finish the missions succesfully, but he must know show his personal attitude towards it.
But here
He slaughters hydra/shield agents in a way that is screams to be really personal to me. He freaking shot that pilot and didn’t even care to throw away the body. He’s just to eager to get to Steve. Yes, it is his mission, but so was that causeway scene and his actions in these situations are so different from each other.
Considering all of these, I believe that in that scene he is not unemotional. WS is about to finish his missions, not only because hydra ordered him, but because Steve makes him feel things that causes him pain and confusion and uncertainity.
Is he angry? Yes. Is he ] eager to kill Steve in the most brutal way? Hell, yes. Is he also feeling pain? He IS! I think that he’s torn between too many emotions and that reflects in his eyes. They are deadly, but at the same time a bit red and look like he’s gonna cry.
To be sure I have to look once again at this moment:
He looks so childish and it feels like he’s suffering. But then:
See how he narrows his eyes for a second? Yes, he’s in misery, but that eye narrowing thing also tells me that WS is also furious and wants to visiously kill his oponent.
P.S. Please, add your thoughts ‘cause I’m so interested in the interpretation of this scene.
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.
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