FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER
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FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER
Did you watch the “Falcon and the Winter Soldier”? The show on Disney+ from the wonderful creative minds at Marvel was a wonderful follow up to “Wandavision”. Both shows seemed to help keep us all entertained at a time when many of us really needed to be. I was asked not too long ago, by a college teammate of mine who is also a friend, “What did I think of the words of Captain America toward the end of the final episode?” Upon reflection, I could sum up my thoughts in one word, BRAVO!
THE ‘SAILBOAT’ CONCEPT
I do not enter into the world of name calling and identifying politics. Rather I vacillate like a tacking sail depending upon the variables I find myself in. Meaning, I look at all the variables (metaphorically speaking using the example of the weather and the sail) to let me know the best course to take or if I should even sail at all. While, at the same time, understand that as a ‘sailboat’ I am built for water transportation and not expect the ‘sailboat’ to fly in the air.
I believe a fictional character can and should, if the screen writer, author, or poet decides to express views that are important to the person who is ‘breathing life into the fictional character’. As followers of the world of Marvel or DC comics, we accept the multiverse concept, if this is so, how can we say if whatever is spoken from Captain America (remember ‘Hail Hydra’) is anything but the “dramatic license” of the creators of the show?
CAPTAIN AMERICA – NEXT GENERATION
Now I know what you may be thinking, Darren, you answered the question but you did not go to the heart of the question. This is true but it really is a different question. Maybe, it is do I agree with some, part of all of the comments made by Captain America? I find it ironic in a way because during my college years my nickname was ‘Cap’ or Captain America. Blond hair and blue eyes tend to make that nickname come to life (along with others I won’t mention they were funny and salty and best left to the imagination). So, to answer the question I would respond in this way, BRAVO. Yes, there’s that word again. To me, Anthony Mackie plays the character Captain America! Not the Black Captain America, Not the Black Falcon who is now Captain America. He is Captain America plain and simple.
As for his soliloquy at the end of the season finale, I believe the points he raised not only have merit and substance but allow the viewer, if they want to, the opportunity to look up aspects of the points he raised. There was nothing “Woke” about his words, rather I saw them as ‘we can do better’.
THIS COUNTRY WAS CREATED FROM SKIN SHADES OF EVERY HUE
This country was created by skin shades of every hue. It has been fought for and protected by skin shades of every hue. And it survives today because of skin shades of every hue. Hate, evil and oppression come in every hue as well. So does love, charity and grace.
Captain America pointed out to me, my interpretation, that women and men of his skin hue helped create this country. It belongs to him and people with similar skin hues, and to people with the hue of the first peoples in North America and the Pacific Rim and everywhere else in the world. If you feel slighted I did not mention your skin hue, respectfully I ask you to please understand I include your skin hue as well.
As for Captain America and the Winter Soldier, I look forward to season two.
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