I love this shot. CONSPICUOUS WATERGATE HOTEL IS CONSPICUOUS right as Captain America is about to get jumped by members of a sinister government conspiracy, after Evil Robert Redford got done telling him his apartment was bugged by the head of the very agency he works for. It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
Instead of fighting the Winter Soldier, Steve just…scoops him up like an especially spicy kitten. “He’s not feral, Sam, he just needs some socializing.”
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:
“We’re heading towards the midpoint of the movie where in conspiracy thrillers you figure out who’s after you and what the truth is, so you can turn around and go forward. And we hit upon the idea that the secret place they went to find the answers to was where Steve was, in essence, born, where it all began. This scene of Steve seeing himself in the past was a very talked about sequence. We all knew we wanted to intimate some sort of memory from him. Using footage from the previous film seemed like a cop out, so we were trying to find a new way to express again this identity crisis he’s going through, and also to remind the audience of what this place actually was. So we tried to externalize it, use these ghosts running through the location so that you get context for it. But also that moment where he stares at himself is a very sad moment. Again, it’s, “What have I lost and what have I gained?”
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