"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" Re-decoding Marvel's biggest turning point in "Politics, Movies, MCU"

Complicated Justice and Robert Redford

The Insight Project monitors the population and kills dangerous elements. The mastermind is Alexander Pierce, a SHIELD director who also participates in the World Security Committee and a member of Hydra. He boasted, ``My mission is to achieve peace,'' and when asked about the pros and cons of the Insight project, ``Our enemy is disorder and war. By sacrificing 20 million people, we will bring order to 7 billion people.'' I can do it.'' Apparently Pierce also has a belief in ``justice'' that he believes in. However, whether this can be said to be justice for everyone is a different story.

Faced with Pierce, Captain America/Steve Rogers must confront justice, which has become more complicated over the course of 70 years. There can be a type of person like Steve, who simply and honestly pursues his ideals, or a type like Pierce, who is willing to do whatever it takes and is willing to make sacrifices. In reality, since the birth of the Donald Trump administration, the country and its people have become increasingly divided due to the state of politics that is supposed to enforce "justice," and in that sense, this work can be said to have had foresight. Furthermore, if we think of the domestic and international situation and public opinion during the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Arnim Zola's words, ``(in times of turmoil) humans will give up their freedom in order to obtain safety,'' have a different resonance. This story perfectly illustrates how justice fluctuates depending on the situation and position, and how people's thoughts and actions are influenced by this.

The most important point about the movie ``Captain America: The Winter Soldier'' is that the villain named Alexander Pierce was played by the great actor Robert Redford. The directors call Redford a ``representative of a healthy America'' and ``an actor who would have been perfect for the role of Captain America in the past,'' but he also played the main character, who uncovers corruption in the CIA, in ``Condor,'' which inspired this film. He also played a reporter who investigates government corruption in the true-life political thriller `` The All the President's Men '' (1976). In this work, Redford goes down the path of evil without hesitation for the sake of the "justice" he believes in. Perhaps there could not have been a better casting to express the twists of justice.

"All the President's Men" preview

By the way, ``All the President's Men'' is also one of the movies that cannot be ignored when talking about this work. The story takes place in June 1972, when a member of U.S. President Richard Nixon's (Republican) re-election committee was arrested for attempting to plant a wiretapping device at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington. , the ``Watergate scandal'' (*Note 2) that forced Nixon to resign in 1974. The fact that this film, which depicts government surveillance, is set in Washington, D.C., and that the Watergate Building, home of the Democratic Party headquarters, is visible at the beginning of Captain America's elevator fight scene is clearly the intention of the production team. be.

(*Note 2) In addition to ``All the All the President's Men'', the Watergate scandal is depicted in `` The Post' ' (17) and ` `The Secret Man '' (17).

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