Something else I like about this scene is actual physics are in play. Superhero movies are broadly indifferent to inertia in particular, particularly the effects of sudden deceleration on bodies that aren’t “super.” Tony Stark may be really smart, but he still gets jellied the first time he crashes the primitive Iron Man suit he made in the cave. Sorry, Tony, but no one is walking away from that. The MCU is broadly a landscape of traumatic brain injuries brushed of as no worse than a stubbed toe. (DC gets points for Batman being seriously wrecked in The Dark Knight Rises.) I’ll accept that a superbeing has a more durable physiology (though how can Thor survive a plasma stream from a dying star but still be vulnerable to a stabbing from a dagger the size of a paring knife?). But regular people in fancy costumes are still just regular people—as this scene showed in bone-crunching reality.
Good point! Yes, one of the reasons this scene works so well is that it keeps things *relatively* realistic. Cap is super strong, but he's not The Hulk, so a dozen guys hanging on his arms does at least slow him down.
OMFG! Your wedding vows- priceless. I had forgotten all about the elevator scene in Winter Soldier. Now I have to watch the whole freaking Marvel series again. Thanks for that. You seem to wade through these posts enviably effortlessly. I live for your footnotes. Priceless. And you, Jeff Somers, would make a wonderful super hero - only with no special powers apart from an understated wit, some possessed felines that do not obey you, and apparently, the multi-verse's greatest wife. Wow, if I ever got married (this could not happen without me being possessed and unable to control my actions), I would steal your wedding vows. And I am definitely tempted to steal all of you for a character in one of my books. Although, I suspect some more accomplished author has already done this. Too tempting.
Something else I like about this scene is actual physics are in play. Superhero movies are broadly indifferent to inertia in particular, particularly the effects of sudden deceleration on bodies that aren’t “super.” Tony Stark may be really smart, but he still gets jellied the first time he crashes the primitive Iron Man suit he made in the cave. Sorry, Tony, but no one is walking away from that. The MCU is broadly a landscape of traumatic brain injuries brushed of as no worse than a stubbed toe. (DC gets points for Batman being seriously wrecked in The Dark Knight Rises.) I’ll accept that a superbeing has a more durable physiology (though how can Thor survive a plasma stream from a dying star but still be vulnerable to a stabbing from a dagger the size of a paring knife?). But regular people in fancy costumes are still just regular people—as this scene showed in bone-crunching reality.
Good point! Yes, one of the reasons this scene works so well is that it keeps things *relatively* realistic. Cap is super strong, but he's not The Hulk, so a dozen guys hanging on his arms does at least slow him down.
OMFG! Your wedding vows- priceless. I had forgotten all about the elevator scene in Winter Soldier. Now I have to watch the whole freaking Marvel series again. Thanks for that. You seem to wade through these posts enviably effortlessly. I live for your footnotes. Priceless. And you, Jeff Somers, would make a wonderful super hero - only with no special powers apart from an understated wit, some possessed felines that do not obey you, and apparently, the multi-verse's greatest wife. Wow, if I ever got married (this could not happen without me being possessed and unable to control my actions), I would steal your wedding vows. And I am definitely tempted to steal all of you for a character in one of my books. Although, I suspect some more accomplished author has already done this. Too tempting.
I would hold out for the superpower of being able to fire cats from my hands like bullets.
I'm just saying what we're all thinking. Get a life.
Jeff can sign my yearbook anytime. I have no idea what that means.