Star-struck Interviewer: “You must miss the good old days.”
Steve Rogers: “I grew up in a tenement slum. Rats, lice, bedbugs, one shared bathroom per floor with a bucket of water to flush, cast iron coal-burning stove for cooking and heat. Oh, and coal deliveries – and milk deliveries, if you could get it – were by horse-drawn cart. One summer I saw a workhorse collapse in the heat, and the driver started beating it with a stick to make it get up. We threw bricks at the guy until he ran away. Me and Bucky and our friends used to steal potatoes or apples from the shops. We’d stick them in tin cans with some hot ashes, tie the cans to some twine, and then swing ‘em around as long as we could to get the ashes really hot. Then we’d eat the potato. And there were the block fights. You don’t know what a block fight was? That’s when the Irish or German kids who lived on one block and the Jewish or Russian kids who lived on the next block would all get together into one big mob of ethnic violence and beat the crap out of each other. One time I tore a post out of a fence and used it on a Dutch kid who’d called Bucky a Mick. Smacked him in the head with the nails.”
After three (3) years since the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) dir. Anthony and Joe Russo, I still don’t understand why the Captain America exhibit was held in the Air and Space Museum. Steve Rogers is not even a pilot. The only time he ever manned a plane, and he nosedived it straight into the Arctic.
I have definitive, rational answers from both filmmaking and museum-curating perspectives. Y’all ready? Buckle up; try not to crash the plane into the water before we reach our destination.
Here’s the short version if you don’t want to read below the cut:
1) Filmmaking reason: using visual metaphor to remind the audience of the previous Captain America film’s events and Steve’s identity through the lens of history, science, and the military.
2) Filmmaking reason: using visual allegory to echo The First Avenger and foreshadow events of The Winter Soldier, specifically the theme of “Steve Rogers Versus Planes of Doom: Bad Things Happen (The Sequel).”
3) Museums curation reason: museums move exhibits as needed according to renovation schedules and capitalizing on popularity for visitation numbers.
4) Museums curation reason: museums try to stick to their themes, but they don’t have to adhere to them entirely. They can have the occasional exhibit “for fun.”
5) Steve Rogers did have relevancy to Air & Space because he prevented it from going down the Darkest Timeline path when he took out one of those Planes of Doom.
6) Filmmaking reason: Aesthetic and emotional buildup.
7) Parallels reason: Captain America fits into the Air & Space museum’s themes of “ingenuity and courage, war and peace, politics and power, as well as society and culture.”
I always kinda fixate on how Sam’s gaze lingers condescendingly on Steve after he delivers this line, and it’s produced this headcanon where after the VA scene, Sam and Steve go out on a date and hit it off really well and go back to Sam’s place and bang, but Steve wakes up while Sam is still making breakfast and is like “I’m sorry to do this, but I have to go” and is apologetic and cringe-y and Sam kinda watches him dubiously with his spatula in hand but is like “alright, man, see you around.” Whether Steve left because he got cold feet or a mission kinda varies in my head. But it makes Sam’s “if u EAT breakfast u fuckin shit” face in this scene (and the startled but slightly reserved way he initially answers the door) funnier to me.
Like I have not been able to stop thinking about this????
It… also kinda explains Steve’s little “okay I deserved that” head bob?
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. [x]
just moving along like everyone else 