They told Bucky to kill Tony’s parents without witnesses and he manages to find the probably only forest in the world with a random security camera by the road-side and kills them exactly in front of that security camera while looking right at said security camera when he disables it and also fails to make sure that the tape inside is destroyed how can you screw up so bad?
imagine how many people Hydra had on staff specifically to follow him around, wiping cameras, picking up his 27 discarded weapons, paying off/killing that entire cafe he once strolled into at noon and shot a dude in.
the guy strolled down fuckin Main Street Washington with a grenade launcher, that “ghost story” reputation did not come easy.
I wondered that too – if he does everything like that attack on Fury how is he a fucking ghost-story?
Imagine that’s your job like:
“Okay, you know how this works. We’re missing a rocket launcher, a mask, three hand-guns, the corpse of the target, two daggers with his finger-prints on them, the Asset’s mask and a helicopter. All of which are somewhere in [whatever city] and have to be retrieved in less than two hours. Go!”
“Ermm…boss? There’s another YouTube video.”
“He’s a brilliant assassin they said. The best there is they said.”
For lack of a better explanation, I’ll attribute it to Bucky’s sub-conscious trying to make shit difficult for them.
Thank the Russo brothers for a) shooting outside in a real setting with practical effects not CGI, for going with a shaky cam that actually added to the sense of immediacy and wasn’t annoying as fuck.
Let me tell u what makes this scene so great. It’s the fact that Steve has a match, an equal. He mows down the goons on the Lemurian Star, escapes SHIELD HQ by fighting 15 people in closed quaters, jumps off a buliding and blows up a plane, then within hours he meets up with Natasha and survives a missle strike. He has no match, no equal in this world. That’s what happens when Batroc challenges him – this scene shows us that men think they can go toe to toe with Steve but they simply can’t.
And then this scene is a rare beast. It’s an action scene that is actually a character building scene. We saw the WS blow up Fury’s car and shoot him, but that could have been any common soldier. Sam could have deployed the mine. Natasha could have taken the shot a Fury. None of them could survive in no holding back fight with Steve.
Within seconds, Bucky has Steve off of him (usually if Steve is close enough to hit you, it’s game over for you), then disarms him and uses his weapon against him. Bucky dictates the speed and the path of the fight, and while Steve tries to attack, most of the time he is dodging. This tells us the audience, several things: a. Steve is in actual danger, b. Steve, judging by his face, is scared (remember what beatings he has taken up unitl now) and therefore c. for the first time in 3 movies, Steven Grant Rogers, Captain America, is not safe. The stakes are real. You are feeling the adrenaline Steve is feeling, even if you are not sure why. That’s what makes this scene a masterpiece.
that scene in cap 2 when nick fury took that sharp turn and lost the fake cops after him and the gunshots subsided and his gps thing was like ‘getting you to a secure location’ and you really thought, you Really Thought!!!! he was Safe But then it got TOO quiet and fucking ominous music started playing in the background and the previously unfocused camera focused on this dude, decked in All Black, in the middle of the fucking street, holding a fucking Bazooka, and Then he BLOWS up furys suv, sees it coming straight for him, and takes ONE(1) nonchalant step to the Side???: UNPARALLELED
Okay military meta time friends. I’ve been meaning to take this one on for a while but I’m in the field at 2337 after a crazy long day on my best behavior around high ranking brass because my CO/BFF sent me on a cherry assignment so I am warn out, and I’m gonna make this short.
When this gif set first came out it simply said predator mode engaged. Then it was changed to hunting module. I reblogged both because I love this fucking gif: both are prime examples of a nonfiring actor correctly emulating behavior of a firer. Seb has played a soldier before and he is good at correctly emulating the distinct way we move when constantly carrying a deadly weapon. Chris evans, btw, is baaaad at that.
However the more recent reblogs of this gif set come with the additional commentary about similarities between the way Bucky moves and the way Winter moves. And from a professional standpoint I can instinctually bit emphatically tell you that the similarities are few and the differences are astronomical. Other than basic weapons and tactical proficiency, Bucky and Winter could not move more differently if they tried.
For one, Bucky lacks the thousand mile stare, whereas that’s all Winter has. Bucky is very focused on the moment, the present, the target right in front of him—the one posing a threat. Its why he gets caught by surprise several times in close combat in that scene. Buck is a sniper. He devotes everything to one point of a focus at a time. He pivots as such. His face shows microreactions as he takes in details of his surroundings one by one. He’s still very situationlly aware, but not simultaneously.
Winter /hunts/. His eyea don’t flicker everywhere and his body language and firing posture doesn’t shift a hundred times minutely like Bucky’s does because rather than focus with a sniper’s POV he sees the whole picture. He’s taking everything in at once. Hence the rhousand mile stare.They could not be more different.
Plus that fact that Bucky has good trigger discipline (you can see it in other gifs) and the WS has his finger clamped down over the trigger. He is ready to shoot to kill at ANY GIVEN SECOND, which Bucky is not.
Reblogging again for the new commentary
I would dearly love to see this gifset and meta updated after Infinity War—to see how Sebstan’s most recent performances hold up.
I’ll do an update for Infinity Wars. Thanks for the follow!
so ive done this before, im sure, but i wanna talk about Buckys scars. because i always see art with scarring all around the arm/metal line, and swear thats not what they are
five lines. yall do me a favor, and mimic clawing at your skin in that spot.
-the thumb would make the shortest line, and curve inward. -the pointer finger would have the most pressure on it from that angle, and the deeper the cut, the more likley it would get caught a bit and skip. see the break in that line? -middle finger would have the longest contact time -ringer finger a shot straight line, and the pinkey just a small gouge.
if he looked down and saw the arm, panicked, and tried to claw at it, thats exactly where he’d be looking and where he’d claw at it.
now (and if you could ignore the part where im severely obsessive and should probably get some kinda hobby), i painted my shoulder. just slapped some tempera paint on and tried to mimic what i think he did, and the results were actually pretty close.
(id have gotten a picture, but my roommate came home with guests and it was either walking back to my room to get my phone, or keep continuing my charade of making her think im mentally stable)
if anyone goes to a convention panel with him (or the Russos) i will pay you to ask about this
Like I needed my heart ripped out again
And, frighteningly, given his healing factor – those scars are probably from new scratches every time he wakes up and can’t remember what’s going on.
Huh, I just realized there is actually some Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes meta that can be drawn from CACW ( even if not nearly as much as from CAWS):
Around the 1:13 mark, in the scene with the flashback to the training of other “Winter Soldiers” which goes awry, one of the HYDRA soldiers tells Bucky to protect him as he flees the room once the prototype soldiers start going berserk. Bucky complies without issue (we just watched another Winter Soldier swiftly murder a doctor who was trying to inject him) and shields the HYDRA guy while getting him out of there.
Back in the present, Sam asks if these soldiers are as bad as Bucky (understandable given Sam’s, err, experience with the Bucky Winter Soldier ie almost being murdered multiple times) to which Bucky responds, “Worse.”
I hadn’t thought much of the moment, I had admittedly only seen Civil War once, and my initial assumption was that the later attempts at super soldier serum after Steve and Erskine were just harsher and therefore prone to failure, just like how Bruce Banner’s attempt turned him into the Hulk.
It only just occurred to me to go back to what Erskine said: the serum amplifies that which is in the heart. Meaning: Bucky Barnes was an inherently better person than those other super soldiers. More disciplined, less brutal, and let’s not forget the sheer amount of conditioning and brain washing HYDRA needed to do to get him to obey.
Or, if we want to go with something less saccharine than “Bucky is nice therefore a less rabid super soldier,” we can use that scene to pick apart some other characteristics the serum might have amplified besides him being something so nebulous as a “good person”.
Characteristics such as:
Self Control: as the Winter Soldier, Bucky remains composed and in control, rather than rabid, in all but the most extreme circumstances (such as when his conditioning starts falling apart when confronted with his memories of Steve, and by extension the realization of what’s been done to him). Kind of reminds me of this:
The other Winter Soldiers looked like they needed to be kept on extremely short leashes to keep from killing their own handlers (something Bucky does share to some extent but he did not go for the kill nearly as quickly as they did). We can deduce that regardless of who he’s working for, Bucky is a disciplined soldier and not a berserk murderer.
Obedience: This one is a little more complicated, because so much obedience is drilled into him by HYDRA. But… it’s not unfair to say Bucky shows signs of being obedient and “a good soldier” even before becoming the Winter Soldier. Starting from going off to WWII in the first place, to listing his serial number on the operating table (which is regulation for POWs), to signing up to serve alongside Captain America at Steve’s request even after he had just been freed from torture. Frankly, the only time we see him disobey a direct order is when Steve ordered him to run out of Schmidt’s base and Bucky gave us the infamous,
So again, obedient to authority (including Steve) except when it comes to Steve’s life. Though, it’s worth noting, not necessarily Steve’s overall safety. After all, the Winter Soldier beat the shit out of Steve, and Bucky obviously didn’t stop Steve from going on missions, where he was undoubtedly injured. Threat’s to Steve’s actual life are the stopping point and the only place where we’ve seen Bucky really disobey an order until he becomes a lone agent after escaping HYDRA’s control.
Overall, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that Bucky preferred using violence to protect rather than attack, and saw his military service in that light. After all, he was Steve’s friend. When doing missions for HYDRA, I would venture to guess that missions that involved protecting rather than killing were easier to get him to obey and required less brainwashing.
Seen by Pierce’s use of gaslighting in the bank vault, instead of just giving him orders.
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