“If the US Government had a potential super-soldier serum on their hands they would have pulled a ‘Tuskeegee Experiment’ on Black enlisted men” was a depressingly plausible scenario.
It occurs to me that Bucky, being born in 1917, would have known people who had been alive before the Civil War (the one about slavery, not the one about superheroes). Maybe even a few people old enough to have fought in the Civil War. So it was nice that he got the line about how he and Steve could never really understand where Sam was coming from and it was naive of them to pretend otherwise. Maybe witnessing a century of civil rights struggles gave Bucky some important perspective.
It would have been nice if they (either the principal characters or the script writers) had taken the time in the first Captain America movie to at least acknowledge the fact that their fellow soldier Gabe Jones would have been dealing with all kinds of shit serving in Captain America’s squad during a period when the U.S. military was still fully segregated.
(Unrelated, but I also just learned that Gabe used to date Peggy Carter, which was one of the first interracial relationships depicted in popular comics, so that’s interesting.)
It was a lovely moment of self-awareness and a moment when you know you’re watching fiction - I can accept technology that’s indistinguishable from magic and a shield that defies the laws of physics but a white guy recognising his own implicit bias? Total fiction!
Sure. I am a firm believer in art being the lie that enables us to realise the truth, stories do absolutely matter. I don’t think I could adequately function in life without fiction to contextualise stuff, I guess.
By the way, with regard to them never letting a black man hold the shield i feel dumb for missing the obvious symbolism that Sam is both his nephew’s Uncle Sam. Their Uncle Sam. It’s right there in the montage!
Took the fam on our first movie outing since the beginning of the pandemic to watch Godzilla vs. Kong at the (mercifully near-empty) theater. It was big and loud and didn’t make any sense and was basically everything one could hope for in a movie about two giant monsters punching each other in the face, so that was fun.
Also the kids went in Kaiju costumes because why not.
yeah, can hardly wait for Mr. Burton to be the quiz master!
I mean, I suffered, silently, through two weeks of that dubious doctor fella because I love the game! I’m not giving up on Jeopardy!
wish they’d just bring Jennings back for good. and I didn’t think I would like him he did a great job!
My daughter doesn’t trust me to pick movies for family movie night anymore because the last couple times I got to pick there was a sad part at the end when the animal died. So this time I decided to go for something safe and picked Lady and the Tramp. I mean, I hadn’t seen it in over 30 years but I was pretty sure I’d remember if a dog died, right?
