As a sidebar - I wonder how much my love of Captain America has to do with, well, being American. You're British, right? Well I have lived in Britain for 20 years. I'm Danish by birth and grew up in the Faroe Islands. And the Faroes might be tiny, but our government has been seated in the same place for 1000+ plus years. (Even if for most of those we were ruled by others.) So I have that Old World view embedded in me. :)
There's something deeply resonant for me in Steve's struggle to figure out when to support his government and when to oppose it, and in his personal relationship to American pomp and symbolism. Ah see, I can understand that. And he's so wonderfully earnest. Like, genuinely trying to be good, which is a nightmare given the state of the world...
but I'm coming to think now that ceding "Patriotism" and "American values" to the right wing was not a good idea. The Cap films and especially Winter Soldier have helped me to think about that. Hear, hear!
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Well I have lived in Britain for 20 years. I'm Danish by birth and grew up in the Faroe Islands. And the Faroes might be tiny, but our government has been seated in the same place for 1000+ plus years. (Even if for most of those we were ruled by others.) So I have that Old World view embedded in me. :)
There's something deeply resonant for me in Steve's struggle to figure out when to support his government and when to oppose it, and in his personal relationship to American pomp and symbolism.
Ah see, I can understand that. And he's so wonderfully earnest. Like, genuinely trying to be good, which is a nightmare given the state of the world...
but I'm coming to think now that ceding "Patriotism" and "American values" to the right wing was not a good idea. The Cap films and especially Winter Soldier have helped me to think about that.
Hear, hear!