Love In An Elevator

[off_coloratura]

PRESENTED FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:

The Winter Soldier Elevator Fight:

Standard Action-Movie Fight Scene, or MASSIVE HOMOEROTIC GANGBANG?

Comments

[tencrush]

HOLY CRAP, THIS IS SO SCIENTIFIC. I shall take my time and do a peer review. (This has clinched it, by the way, I'm going again today, I just can't not.)

The way the bottom curve of Steve's.shield hits the top of his arse in this and several other shots in this film surely deserves an Oscar for Best Arse Direction or some such. The scene itself shall more than likely take the MTV Movie Award for Best Gangbang, which I am certain is a category this year. I can't help but think that a porn version of this scene, with cock, is already out there somewhere, but it will never be as good or as pornographic as the original.

This face

[off_coloratura]

And it just now occurred to me that that shot of him with his back to the camera is intended to look like a giant target. VISUAL METAPHOR AHOY.

AND YET IT IS NOT CENTERED ON HIS ASS. MASSIVE OVERSIGHT.

Especially since the eye goes right there anyway.

[tencrush]

It's deflecting attention away from his ass. Like that could somehow be achieved.

I cannot stop reading this insightful analysis.

[off_coloratura]

Rumlow biting his lip was the one that made me LOL. THAT IS AN ACTUAL ACTING CHOICE THAT HE MADE.

[tencrush]

Poor Bucky. His sad Smithsonian face. You can. You can fix him, he is fixable, surely.

[ooshiny]

Not gonna lie, I got a little flustered during that scene in the theater.

[tencrush]

I went again today and there was some noticeable in-seat shifting going on during that scene.

[rydot]

I need to see to it this makes its way back to the sound crew. We're a twisted lot, after all...

[off_coloratura]

I'd love to hear whether they concur. After being presented with the SOLID EVIDENCE.

[10littlebullets]

I was linked to this inspiring post on Tumblr and have come back to bask in its glory several times, and always felt guilty for not commenting because I had nothing to say besides "DLDK:JKSDF YES." But now I feel duty-bound to share this because it's so intensely relevant to this post's interests, if you haven't seen it yet: Steve's opening line was originally "Before we get started, does anyone want to get off?"

Like, it was filmed, edited, and screened at SDCC before anyone had second thoughts about this, then the last word was hastily dubbed for the final version, and if you look closely at Chris Evans' mouth (...yeah, I know, such an arduous task, but sacrifices must be made) you can see that he sure as heck isn't saying "out."

[off_coloratura]

WHAT. WHAT.

I watched it and you are SO RIGHT.

They knew, I knew it, they KNEW how frickin' homoerotic this was. That line proves it. Even in the dialogue. And the fact that they had to CHANGE IT... Oh, man. THEY KNEW.

This just frickin' MADE MY DAY. Thank you a MILLION TIMES for telling me this. And I am so glad others have seen and enjoyed the post!

I would have done this on Tumblr, but it's just not set up for that many pictures in a row with commentary in between, like this, or if it is, I don't know how to do it properly.

Anyway, THANK YOU.

[10littlebullets]

You're so welcome, and thank YOU for compiling this exhaustive and scientific study.

From a writing standpoint, I almost want to say that the line makes more SENSE if it's not just a gratuitous Badass One-Liner but also a cheeky little gag about how INCREDIBLY GAY this scene was. I mean. It really really sounds like that was its purpose as written, and then they had to fall back on the innocuous surface reading when this round of "Heh heh, what can we get past the higher-ups?" ended in getting busted at the last minute.

Tumblr is the actual devil for this sort of thing--it's possible to do a text post with images interspersed, but there's all sorts of black magic involved in keeping Tumblr from screwing up the display on people's dashboards. :(