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[zhuanghongru]

Canadian photographer Eiko Jones

[crackdkettle]

actual footage of me trying to figure out how the exact same people who made Captain America: The Winter Soldier also made Avengers: Endgame

[crackdkettle]

Okay, I’m not reblogging this from anyone in particular because it’s more than one specific person, but I just want to say, there’s a reason I phrased this “the exact same people” and not “the exact same directors” or just “the Russos”.

Winter Soldier and Endgame had the exact same creative team. The Russos were the directors, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely were the writers, Kevin Feige was the executive producer.

To reiterate, the same people who wrote Winter Soldier also wrote Endgame. That means the same people who wrote, “None of us can go back,” were the same people who then wrote Steve going back to the woman who literally said those words to him!

(Also, like, the plot of Winter Soldier actually makes sense?? Like, if you “don’t understand time travel” then don’t use it as a plot device??? Or at least bring in another writer who does???? Winter Soldier is an actual movie, not just a collection of cool gifs and callbacks that doesn’t hang together if you actually think about it for more than half a second.)

The point is, I’m not just blaming the Russos here. I’m blaming the whole damn creative team. And they’re all the exact same people responsible for both movies.

That’s what I’m having trouble wrapping my head around.

[captainlordauditor]

the same people who wrote steve saying “this isn’t freedom; this is fear” wrote him retiring under mccarthyism.

[shinelikethunder]

…it’s almost like it’s impossible to make a decent movie with Marveldisney execs breathing down your neck and slamming ten contradictory sets of Extruded Blockbuster Product plot points down on your desk alongside ten contradictory sets of interest groups to pander to and avoid offending at any cost, starting with the Chinese government censors

[shinelikethunder]

Like, that may sound like flippant speculation but the entire creative team was really fucking up-front about what allowed them make Winter Soldier the movie it was. Marvel gave them all their plot points well in advance, signed off on their basic concept, and then fucked off and let them do their thing and gave them time to edit the shit out of everything. How many of those elements were in evidence for Endgame, for Infinity War, or even for Civil War? Zero. Nada. Absolutely none of the production conditions that gave them the ability to craft a decent story applied to any of their later MCU movies. And it shows–of course it fucking shows, they’re not wizards, but given their ability to produce good stuff under good conditions, the fact that their subsequent MCU offerings blow chunks is more revealing about the conditions than about the creative team. If you want to fault them, fault them for accepting a deal with the devil and continuing to play along after it became clear that they weren’t there to make good movies, they were there to churn out Extruded Blockbuster Product on demand.

[thunderboltsortofapenny]

On board with most of this, but Markus and McFeely are both on my shitlist for going so hard at ‘just bro no homo’ ing Steve in basically every interview since WS

[hey-rissyroo]

Exactly!

[bucketbarnhouse]

Steve: can I stay at your house everyone I know is trying to kill me but if they know you’re involved they might kill you too :/

Sam:

Steve: can you look for my best friend for me I would do it myself but I gotta fight these robots :/

Sam:

Steve: hey can you go against the us government with me I disagree with them so I’m going to do what I want you might get in trouble though :/

Sam:

Steve: welcome back it’s 2023 and you’ve been dead for five years I’m sure you want a break but can you be captain america normally I’d do it myself but I’m 93 :/

Sam:

[magnetogf]

obviously there’s a lot of reason why i hate steve’s ending but one thing that gets me, especially as a writer, is that steve didn’t have to make a hard decision.

one of the most important things you can do for a character is put them in a position where they will face consequences no matter what they do. for steve it should’ve  been "i now have the opportunity to go back and live the life i lost, a life that i’d accepted i lost but have now remembered by seeing peggy. but if i leave, i abandon my friends and the life that i created. all of that work is gone.”  

we as an audience can connect with a hard choice like that. how many of you would love to go back to a time you’ve romanticized and live out a different life? but then there’s the life you do have, the one that has made you who you are. if you leave, you can’t get your old self back. 

ultimately, steve letting go of peggy is a hard thing to do, but it’s the right thing to do. he knows he’d be causing everyone else pain if he acts selfishly. but instead, the choice is made too easy for him. bucky gives him a bittersweet goodbye, but doesn’t fight it. sam isn’t affected at all. who know how anyone else feels because we’ll probably never find out. if they were going to go this route, they needed to make it hard. to make steve face consequences for it. because otherwise it just feels hollow.

[magnetogf]

also just to add onto this: much of steve’s story revolves around making hard choices, but doing what needs to be done even if it doesn’t always pan out for him.

in the first avenger he sacrifices himself to save the world, even though that means giving up the newfound chance at a relationship and his whole life ahead of him. 

in winter soldier he takes down shield to make sure hydra is out of the picture and willing sacrifices himself for bucky 

in civil war he becomes a criminal and a fugitive not just to save bucky but to stop zemo’s plan since tony won’t listen to him. he gives up the shield and his status as captain america do to what he believes is right. 

yet in endgame, he faces no consequences for his choice. it’s easy. it’s all tied up. it doesn’t necessarily feel earned because it comes out of nowhere. all those sacrifices and he just gives it all up? like it means nothing? 

[catsbeaversandducks]

[youraffectionatedad]

Not even the Cone of Shame can stop this bloodthirsty man-eating predator!!

[yesterdaysprint]

The Salem News, Ohio, January 13, 1908

[naamahdarling]

[strawbebbynya]

[thecheshirecass-deactivated2018]

These are so cute they’re almost physically painful

[disgustinganimals]

It’s a double attack. First your heart then your blankets.

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

[sunflowersandgold]

I don’t know the source but amazing advice.

[supernovarianwizard]

Inflexible Yogis on Instagram! I follow them. They’re awesome.

[the-exercist]

Thank you for the source! That page is wonderful.

[private-bucky-barnes-deactivate]

[sunfortune]

2014-2015 era on here was fun all we did was watch the winter soldier, pacific rim and mad max fury road and then re-watch the winter soldier, pacific rim and mad max fury road 

[falcon-caps]

peggy: hey steve, can you go post this letter for me?

steve: post a lett-

peggy: yeah and have you looked at hotels for our vacation?

steve, shaken: oh no lemme just googl-

steve:

[pineapplebread]

peggy: i’m so worried the kids might get polio this summer 

steve: polio–

[rael-rider]

I recommend people to read Captain America: Man Out of Time, it covers the first Avengers story with Cap after he wakes up from the ice. He misses his life in the 40′s, he wants to go back, etc… At one point they fight Kang the Conqueror and Steve gets sent back to V-Day after the Allies won in Europe. At first he’s happy but the reality of him romanticizing his own era due to nostalgia starts hitting him. He was already in a more advanced and, while not perfect, a more accepting time and him having to come back to a time where racism and sexism were worse, where medicine and technology weren’t as advanced, and everyone telling him “Yeah we won! The war is over! Time to rest!” it really leaves him fed up and unsatisfied. He also starts feeling like an outsider in his own time and i the end he decides to do something to go back to the future.

The last pages of that story have Steve writing in his journal about how living in the past is tempting but that it’s where fossils come from and that “there’ll always be something to fight for” so he decides to look ahead instead of back.

That whole story was basically the antithesis of Steve’s ending in Endgame.

[lauralot89]

Remember that scene in Winter Soldier when Sam’s all “you must miss the good old days” and Steve responds by actively dispelling the romanticizing of the past by pointing out that hey, now people aren’t dying horribly of polio

You’d think the directors and screenwriters of Endgame would have remembered that, CONSIDERING THEY MADE THE WINTER SOLDIER FILM

[gif87a-com]

[knightlyhoods-deactivated202404]

when you tryna chill but your siblings love annoyin you

[lovely-little-hellfire]

Favorite moment

[autisticjoy]

why??? do teachers????? love group works so much???????

[autasticanna]

Only four projects to grade

[thefabulousweirdtrotters]

Peacock 

[revolutionaryalways]

“ I know what you came for, fuckers”

[susiethemoderator]

Literally what it was thinking

[elaenathedefiant]

countries where prostitution is legal have higher rates of human trafficking. that’s like an actual fact. not an opinion or anything. so tbh it seems a bit ‘swerfy’ to completely ignore that

[patrexes]

speaking, uh, as a formerly-trafficked sex worker, it’s extremely difficult to come forward as a trafficking victim in countries where sex work is criminalized; you just… get criminalized under those same anti-prostitution laws. of course reported trafficking would increase when the sole fact of coming forward as a sex worker at all no longer endangers you.

[xenoqueer]

This line of argument is the same one that you see with conservatives who point to the increase in divorce rates as proof that making divorce safer is endangering marriage, while ignoring the massive drops in domestic abuse, murder, and suicide.

It’s a shot argument with them, and it’s a shot argument here.

[61below]

In WWI, when they introduced helmets, they saw a sudden spike in head injuries.

What the casual observer may miss was that they were seeing the increase because of a dramatic decrease in deaths from head wounds.

[sweetsurrender68-deactivated202]

[richardalexanderrr]

growth of a seed

[kingjaffejoffer]

nature is raw af

[zhuanghongru]

Canadian photographer Eiko Jones

[humofnight]

i love one (1) disaster wizard

[curlicuecal]

It’s a good metaphor tho, because the situation is never going to get better if you don’t eventually pull the door. And afterwards, no matter what the damage was, you’ll have a working cabinet, whatever plates you could salvage, and a place to start putting new plates.

[artbymoga-deactivated20200516]

Reblogging for that comment ^

[absolutely-walnuts]

another good post