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The two most romantic lines in cinema history are "As you wish" from the Princess Bride and "I can fix that" from Holes.
Preening Barn Owl at Sunset by teagden
This is possibly the only time I have ever seen a barn owl look happy about anything.
One of the things that made Captain America: The Winter Soldier so good was that it really went out of its way to establish character’s competence before they fought the big climax of the story, so you really feel the stakes.
Fury escaped a whole set of police cars and weaponized teams and being shot at from all sides, but then comes the Winter Soldier and bam just like that he’s down. Steve took out a set of pirates and Batroc at the start of the movie, then an entire elevator full of STRIKE agents, brought down a plane with his bare hands, but then bam the Winter Soldier slams into him like nothing else before.
And with Winter Soldier we see him take out Fury twice, go toe to toe with Steve, hurl Natasha around, yank a guy from a car, jump from a bridge, he’s restrained in a room filled with people with huge guns and he slams a guy halfway across the room, and then Pierce goes ahead and slaps him, because he can.
I remember watching that movie in theatres back in 2014 (2015?) when it first came out, and gasping in shock when Pierce slaps the Winter Soldier across the face. This guy has super-serum, and Pierce is an old man. The Winter Soldier could have killed Pierce with his pinky finger. I was expecting him to react violently to being slapped, and for Pierce to end up as a red smear on the nearest wall.
When the Soldier just accepted his punishment, I was deeply creeped out. That’s when it really hit me that he is a victim. He’s been brainwashed so thoroughly Pierce has zero hesitation in getting violent with him. Pierce KNOWS he’s the one in control, and the Soldier would never dare to fight back.
Pierce can hit him with impunity, and the Soldier being a supersoldier is irrelevant. Yeah, he’s physically extraordinarily strong, but he’s not a person, he’s a tool. Pierce expects unquestioning obedience from him, and he always gets it. The Soldier’s mind is not his own, and he’s been enslaved.
P.S. Now I’m nostalgic for the days when Marvel used to make movies that didn’t suck. Yeah, there were some turkeys back in the day, but there were also some movies that were really GOOD. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, they convinced Robert fucking Redford to appear in a superhero movie, and he was amazing. Pierce wasn’t your average supervillain.
He was much scarier than that, because he was just a charming, genial, unscrupulous human being who had accumulated far too much power. He had no superpowers at all, but he was a terrifying villain because he didn’t NEED superpowers. He had his brain and his position, and he had a bureaucracy to ensure his decisions get implemented. Plus, the Winter Soldier programmed to carry out Pierce’s every order and treat him like he was God. Pierce didn’t need to get his hands dirty.
Also, that movie is an interesting outlier compared with other MCU movies. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is barely a superhero movie. Yes, it features 2 characters with superserum, and it has plenty of action scenes. But at its core, it’s really a spy thriller.
the thing that made the winter soldier so good is the domino effect it had on originating in a short-lived but prolific headcaonon series on romanian tumblr about bucky being adopted by pensioners in bucharest and healing from trauma via the power of empathy, community and grandmas feeding him griș cu lapte.
Alright, possibly im biased cuz im currently working on a (horse) farm, but i want to talk about farm boy kon kent. Especially in a Timkon esk setting. Like, Tim seing Kon be hypercompetent and strong lifting stuff and doing all the physical work around the farm then collect eggs and milk the cows and bake stuff, but burn the cookies cuz he was staring at Tims heart eyes and then going out to spend time with the animals.
The old cow that doesn't really move around much anymore but gave the sweetest milk, the colt that Martha had been offered to buy for the meat price as it was too frightened to ride, the chicks that were just born, getting them used to people, the stray cat that showed up one day and never left, now living in the barn in a little bed made of the blanket John used to sleep in the barn when cows were giving birth.
There's always some dirt caught between his fingernails, maybe some hay caught in his hair, his boots scruffed from all the walking and climbing, because eventhough he could fly and use ttk there's something calming about getting your hands dirty.
Picking fresh herbs from the garden and bringing them to his neighbour when he comes over for coffee, offering to help woth lifting, trying to fix the tractor, drenched in sweat and grease and oil while Krypto barks in agreement whenever he cusses the old machiene, before remembering that Martha taughy him better.
Carefully teaching Jon how to pick strawberries from the plant without leaving a mark when his superpowers started to show, running with bart whenever barts mind got to fast to loud to gather it. Gently taking the oven mits out of Martha's hands when her hands start to shake after a long day, catching the pie before it can touch the ground
Idk, i just want to see more of kons life on the farm. I might be projecting but eh
funniest thing about Six of Crows is that they technically have two wizards on the six person heist crew but one of them kind of sucks shit at it and it's not even why he's on the team. he's there for guns and the wizard thing is just like a silly little fun fact about him that they only break out in absolute emergencies. it's like having a weird allergy it's just so absolutely incidental. you could know this guy for years and not even know. love that level of casual magic bullshit in a world tbh some people are just magic by accident and don't make a whole personality out of it.
like on a daily basis this guy's life is impacted way more by being bisexual and having a gambling addiction than being a wizard. in a world where a group of religious extremists are regularly rounding up and murdering wizards. he is just chilling so hard on the magic thing.
I've never watched a single episode of spn but I've been thinking about the implications of being stuck inside a meme
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