{"id":89099,"date":"2020-10-14T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/looking-back-on-the-captain-america-grenade-scene-film\/"},"modified":"2020-10-14T19:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:00:45","slug":"looking-back-on-the-captain-america-grenade-scene-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/looking-back-on-the-captain-america-grenade-scene-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Looking Back on the Captain America Grenade Scene \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df37f54442\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df37f54442\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/looking-back-on-the-captain-america-grenade-scene-film\/#The_Scene\" >The Scene<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/looking-back-on-the-captain-america-grenade-scene-film\/#Why_Its_Great\" >Why It\u2019s Great<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/looking-back-on-the-captain-america-grenade-scene-film\/#What_If\" >What If?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Looking Back on the Captain America Grenade Scene \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-641309 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/cap-grenade-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/cap-grenade.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/cap-grenade-360x154.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Welcome to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/slashfilm.com\/tag\/great-moments-in-mcu-history\"><strong>Great Moments in MCU History<\/strong><\/a>, where we fondly recall great little bits that made us fall in love with the MCU.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After all these years, it\u2019s fun to look back at early Marvel Cinematic Universe efforts. They\u2019re all so quaint in retrospect, so tiny. Thor loses his hammer and has to fight a big metal guy who breathes fire. (Yes, I know he\u2019s called the Destroyer, but he destroys little more than a block of New Mexico\u2019s smallest town). Tony Stark makes his suit, flies around a bit, and has to fight a slower, chunkier Iron Man. Hulk fights some army guys on a college campus and then has to fight an uglier Hulk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we didn\u2019t fall in love with them for their bombastic, non-stop action. Early Marvel films succeeded \u2013\u00a0 allowing bigger Marvel films to mature \u2013 due to their casting, their wit, their heart and their willingness to get a little weird with it. This was the age of Nolan\u2019s <em>Batman<\/em> films, after all. It took guts to make a colorful, pop-Shakespearean <em>Thor<\/em> film filled with Dutch angles.<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post --><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heart is front and center in the first great MCU moment I\u2019d like to discuss: the famous grenade scene from <strong><em>Captain America: The First Avenger<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Scene\"><\/span><strong>The Scene<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steve Rogers wants nothing more than to help people, and in 1943, that means joining the war and punching Nazis (or Hydra folk if he finds any). But despite his infinite spirit and altruism, his scrawny body \u2013 and I mean scrawny scrawny scrawny \u2013 keeps him from getting in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But then Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanely Tucci) comes to the rescue. Recognizing Steve\u2019s full-on Mr. Rogers vibes, he gets him in the military, secretly pegging him for a radical super-soldier serum he\u2019s developed. His counterpart, Tommy Lee Jones\u2019 Colonel Chester Phillips, would prefer they use the serum on a pre-tough mean guy which, let\u2019s be fair, I also wouldn\u2019t mind seeing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So now little Steve\u2019s in the army, trying to prove his worth among a crew of regular-sized, American beef boys. But forget them. The main person he needs to impress is Tommy Lee Jones. Have you ever tried to impress Tommy Lee Jones? No one younger than Tommy Lee Jones has ever succeeded. \u201cI don\u2019t care\u201d is not only his most famous line read, but also his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach to your entire life.<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_2 --><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steve manages it anyway when Jones throws a grenade at his assembled recruits, just to make a point of how disappointingly afraid of grenades they all are. They take their strong bodies and run away like jerks except for our wee hero, who leaps on the grenade without a second thought, hoping to use his tiny gut as an explosion shield for everybody else. This act finally convinces Tommy Lee Jones he has some real hero material on his hands, though no one ponders whether Steve is just enthusiastically suicidal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Captain America (2011) clip - Grenade\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_bW-pxp_U9k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_Its_Great\"><\/span><strong>Why It\u2019s Great<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s just start with the cast. It\u2019s difficult to beat a scene with Tommy Lee Jones and Stanely Tucci together, especially if they are bickering. Marvel gets a ton of deserved credit for casting their heroes, but even this far back, they did a great job matching support roles with just the right actors. It\u2019s easier for us to love Steve when he can melt the ice around Jones\u2019 heart and earn the warmth of Tucci\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Captain America<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the film and the character, would not be so beloved without the consideration and time invested in scrawny Steve Rogers, all peaking here with this grenade sequence. This is a fully-formed character long before he puts on his costume, and his hallmarks remain consistent all the way to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">End<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Captain America\u2019s world changes repeatedly, but he does not. Remember, he first utters \u201cI could do this all day\u201d while still in his malnourished <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gummo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So from this point forward, and we\u2019re talking six films here, we all know who Steve is: the guy who instinctively falls on a grenade, facing certain death, to help others. His black and white, perhaps simplistic responses weather fierce opposition in the modern world, particularly from Tony \u201cI think I would just cut the wire\u201d Stark, but he never abandons them. Because despite his big muscles and American ass, he never stopped being that skinny kid who just wants to help. Except for that one time where he finally quit fighting and spent his life with the woman he loved instead. He could do this all day, but come evening he\u2019s got other plans!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_If\"><\/span><strong>What If?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_3 --><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I mean, what if Tommy Lee Jones threw a real grenade and it blew Steve\u2019s guts out all over the other recruits? That would be pretty remarkable too. They\u2019d have to go out and find another indomitably kind and brave and skinny kid as fast as they could. Or they could just be real smart and give the serum to Peggy Carter. Either way, Tommy Lee Jones would have gotten demoted for sure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                            <strong>Cool Posts From Around the Web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- \/post -->\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/captain-america-grenade-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Looking Back on the Captain America Grenade Scene \u2013 \/Film&#8221; (Welcome to Great Moments in MCU History, where we fondly recall great little bits that made us fall in love with the MCU.) 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