Captain America: The Winter Soldier
MCU
Disney Plus · Rent: Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help
- The film with which the Russo brothers (previously: sitcom directors!) earned the trust for Infinity War, Endgame and now Doomsday.
- On Fury's tombstone: 'The path of the righteous man …' — Ezekiel 25:17, Jackson's Pulp Fiction quote.
- Zola's computer archive names Stephen Strange as a target — two years before his film.
- Sam's recommendation to Steve: Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man — everything he missed on one album.
- A Washington thriller from Cleveland: the Winter Soldier freeway fight ran on the closed Lakeshore Boulevard.
Score: Henry Jackman
- Marvin Gaye – Trouble Man ('Everything on one playlist' — Sam's tip for Steve)
Ed Brubaker's run — the Bucky return that was considered unfilmable.
Baron von Strucker experiments with Loki's scepter — in the cells: 'the twins', Wanda and Pietro.
→ Leads to: Avengers: Age of UltronBucky stands in the Smithsonian in front of his own memorial plaque.
Smithsonian guard in front of the empty Cap display: 'Oh, I am SO fired.'
Debut of Sam AND Bucky-as-Winter-Soldier — two Doomsday leads. And the film with which the Russos earned the trust for Endgame & Doomsday.
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