Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

jeza-red:

boogiewoogiebuglegal:

winterlive:

ellidfics:

seguin2011:

^{The unsung heroes.}

That was one of the most horrifying, painful, beautiful parts of the movie.  So many of them weren’t prepared, so many were administrators who had no clue that the STRIKE teams had turned, let alone that a killing machine like the Winter Soldier was on the loose.  

So many of them died.

And yet none of them hesitated.  Despite the propaganda Pierce had unleashed, despite their orders, despite everything, they still responded.  Their sacrifice, their heroism - they gave the last full measure of devotion, and I can’t imagine that Steve wouldn’t attend the memorial service, even if he had to use a wheelchair or a cane because his own wounds hadn’t finished healing.

“Captain’s orders” indeed.

without these people, there IS no Captain America.

This part of the movie killed me— ordinary, decent people standing up (and in many cases, dying) on nobody else’s word than the Captain’s. They didn’t know how many were Hydra, they maybe didn’t even really know what Hydra was (aside from some dimly recalled story from their grandparents) but stand up, they did. And without them, without the few seconds of delay, the helicarriers would have launched on schedule. 

That’s Steve’s power - inspiring people to try and be what they can be.

(via skymurdock)

sherloques:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“If you’re not a comic book fan, when you think ‘Captain America’, you probably think ‘jingoist’, a propaganda piece. But if you know the comics, every time something happens in the world, he gets to address it: the hippies, the civil rights movement, the Watergate. And our MCU Cap missed all that, he missed 9/11. So he gets to address where we are now without having seen what forced us to make these decisions. He did not have the same slow descent into the cynicism that we all had over the last 40 years. He comes out with fresh eyes.

One of the great things in the comics that we hoped to replicate in the movie is that his reaction is never the sort of knee-jerk old man conservative reaction you would think the man dressed in an American flag would have. He exemplifies the spirit of America, not a party, not a government. He’s never going to fall on a political line. He stands for an ideal and he stands for principles that are translatable across the board. What he is against in this film is subversion, subterfuge and lies, that line between freedom and fear.”

(via adelindschade)

polytropic-liar:

emilianadarling:

seguin2011-deactivated20160217:

^{The unsung heroes.}

#I GODDAMN CRIED #BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT CAPTAIN AMERICA IS ABOUT #[LAYS DOWN] #WINTER SOLDIER FUCKED ME UP: THE BLOG (via buckybarnesss)

How many of these people joined SHIELD because when they sat alone at night in the dark after a history lesson or watching a biopic or reading a biography, they asked themselves “if Captain Rogers asked me, would I have gone?” and found the answer to be “yes”? How many people had already had this conversation with themselves, years ago, hashing out their fear and hesitance and ideology with the idea of the man before they ever heard his voice? And how many of them didn’t, how many of them joined up to get out or pay for college or be good at something, how many of them asked themselves the hard questions in different ways or never at all and still found within themselves something that answered?

I’m not into the bulk of the Captain America symbolism, most of the time. But the idea that there is something in people that can rise up and answer when asked not to shoot? That, I’m into.

(via clockwork-mockingbird)

novacorps:

silvertons:

You picked the wrong side, agent.
Depends on where you’re standing.

#no joke probably my favorite scene from this movie#that unnamed launch tech has no way to protect himself - this is runlow this is strike#he has no idea if he can depend on the people //around// him to protect him#but he still says no i’m not gonna do that#and he’s scared he’s so scared they all are#but shield isn’t some faceless shadowy organization (or //just// that)#shield is these people - these techs - these agents - sharon#they believe in something greater - not loyalty to captain america but to the ideal that he represents#a better world - the work they were doing (thought they were doing - //were// doing) despite hydra#and they’re gonna keep doing that - fighting for what is right standing up for what is right#and that starts right here with this one simple gigantic refusal#he stands up to the biggest toughest guy the one who could kill him easily and says no (silvertons)

(via n-haught)

ellidfics:

seguin2011-deactivated20160217:

^{The unsung heroes.}

That was one of the most horrifying, painful, beautiful parts of the movie.  So many of them weren’t prepared, so many were administrators who had no clue that the STRIKE teams had turned, let alone that a killing machine like the Winter Soldier was on the loose.  

So many of them died.

And yet none of them hesitated.  Despite the propaganda Pierce had unleashed, despite their orders, despite everything, they still responded.  Their sacrifice, their heroism - they gave the last full measure of devotion, and I can’t imagine that Steve wouldn’t attend the memorial service, even if he had to use a wheelchair or a cane because his own wounds hadn’t finished healing.

“Captain’s orders” indeed.

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)