Day 3 - Snowflake Challenge

[alexcat]

Day 3

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I LOVE heroes and good guys. I've never been one who liked villains or the bad boys. I liked the nice ones, the ones who made sacrifices for the good of everyone, so Captain America blew me away. I was completely lost when I saw saw this exchange between Abraham Erskine and tiny Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger:

Steve Rogers: Can I ask a question?
Abraham Erskine: Just one?
Steve Rogers: Why me?
Abraham Erskine: I suppose that's the only question that matters.
Abraham Erskine: [Displaying a wine bottle] This is from Augsburg, my city. So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own. You know, after the last war, they... My people struggled. They... they felt weak... they felt small. Then Hitler comes along with the marching, and the big show, and the flags, and the, and the... and he... he hears of me, and my work, and he finds me, and he says "You." He says "You will make us strong." Well, I am not interested. So he sends the head of Hydra, his research division, a brilliant scientist by the name of Johann Schmidt. Now Schmidt is a member of the inner circle and he is ambitious. He and Hitler share a passion for occult power and Teutonic myth. Hitler uses his fantasies to inspire his followers, but for Schmidt, it is not fantasy. For him, it is real. He has become convinced that there is a great power hidden in the earth, left here by the gods, waiting to be seized by a superior man. So when he hears about my formula and what it can do, he cannot resist. Schmidt must become that superior man.
Steve Rogers: Did it make him stronger?
Abraham Erskine: Yeah, but... there were other... effects. The serum was not ready. But more important, the man. The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows... compassion.
Steve Rogers: Thanks. I think.
Abraham Erskine: [Gesturing toward the wine] Get it, get it. Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are, not a perfect soldier, but a good man.

""A Good Man" Steve Rogers & Dr. Erskine Scene | Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) HD 1080p" (Watch on YouTube)

Comments

[lightofdaye]

Lovely post. And that scene really does sum up Cap doesn't it?

[alexcat]

It does... and the grenade scene. That one gives me chills.

[lightofdaye]

All the training scenes are great. Those two and the flag pole bit establish a lot of Cap's character.

Dammit I just watched IW on bluray yesterday. Now I feel the need to rewatch the MCU!

[mizface]

Ah, this is lovely. Great reminder of why I love Cap.

[alexcat]

I adore the 'good man' idea.

[coyoteclaw11]

Ahhh I feel this so much!! The Captain America movie just... blew me away so, so much because Steve Rogers is such a genuinely good person. He honestly became my absolute favorite superhero from that moment onward. There's a lot that's just... so wrong with our country, but as silly as it is with him being fictional and all, the fact that a man like Steve Rogers bears our country's name and stands as an icon... it kinda gives me hope? Like regardless of what America is now, that's what America could be. Idk... but I honestly truly admire what an all around good person Steve Rogers is. He does what's right. Not what he's supposed to, not what the law says, but what's genuinely right.

[alexcat]

Exactly! He is a symbol of hope.

[lilalanor]

Or why I love Cap So So Much <3. (I apparently don't have my Judaism icon anymore but if I did it would be here).

[alexcat]

I think this scene is what Cap is all about.

[spikedluv]

"...not a perfect soldier, but a good man."

Such a great scene, and so Steve Rogers.

[alexcat]

oh yes!

[anoyo]

100% A+ agree, that scene was phenomenal. It's quintessentially Steve, and this fellow who wants Steve to be Steve, and it was so, so well done.

[alexcat]

It is! I think he does stay Steve... that's why he's great.

[wishingwell44]

Such a great post!

[alexcat]

Thanks!

[przed]

A wonderful post about a wonderful scene!

[silveradept]

That is an excellent scene and a reminder of the ways the people who follow villains often believe, even if the villains themselves don't.

[keiliss]

And he did remain a good man - not rule bound and prissy, but a man who has an innate sense of justice and 'rightness'. I've loved him since I started reading Avengers comics at about age 10 and nothing has ever happened to change that. Him the movies got one thousand percent right.

[ilyena_sylph]

Such an excellent scene, and such a good post.

[mmouse15]

I loved this scene, too. Great choice!

[the_megs]

Oh my gosh, yes. I love this scene, and the description of Steve Rogers as not a perfect soldier, but a good man. I also really really love tiny brave Brooklyn pipsqueak Steve who stands up to bullies and throws his bitty self onto grenades.

[alexcat]

I actually cried when he threw himself on the grenade when I saw it the firs time.

[the_megs]

And then more recently when he tried to fight Thanos with his bare hands, because of course he did.

[navaan]

I do love that scene. It does have all these important character notes in it that make Steve who he is.

[curiousartemis]

I totally agree with this, and Steve is absolutely my favorite MCU character. This is why.