sevensneakyfoxes:

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characterless94:

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phdna:

murdockthebigboy:

Which do you like best?

Jesus, take a moment to appreciate the similarities and differences in the acting, please

While you’re at it, take a moment to appreciate the fact Seb holds the props like they’re real weapons and not props.

I read in some othetr post he’s the only one who does that. 

Those posts were probably mine, lol. I love Cevans from the top of his dark brown roots to his unusually good looking feet, but I’ve criticized him several times for the way he handles prop guns like they’re, well, props. He flags others with his muzzle, doesn’t sight, chicken wings, ect. Seb never does that. He maintains control of a prop weapon as if it might actually be deadly (which is smart bc these days, a lot of prop weapons are actually real ones that fire blanks, which can still injure people even with a blank firing adaptor at the front, and I think other cast members have mentioned before that they’re using real weapons with blanks to capture realist recoil and set the mood for the actors on set.)

I’ve decided to myself that if I ever meet Chris, the first thing I’ll do after climbing off him, disposing of the condom and throwing him a damp wash cloth is take him to a gun range to put a few thousand rounds down range. (As opposed to the first thing I’ll do if I meet Seb, which is feed him authentic TexMex breakfast tacos.)

Bucky’s a sniper.  And Sebastian plays the part perfectly.  Snipers have fucking RESPECT for their guns and know how to handle them intimately.  Seb does a FANTASTIC job handling a gun.  There’s a lot of confidence there.

I haven’t really studied how Cevans has used guns in past performances (although there’s a lot of videos of him doing training for Street Kings with guns, so if he’s shit, I guess we can blame them?), but the way he uses a gun in the MCU is perfectly 100% Steve.  Watching Steve with a gun is WEIRD, and I feel like Steve handling a gun is WEIRD, and it plays like that on film.  We’ve seen Steve with guns before, but usually small hand guns.  And it’s clear that he neither likes nor prefers to use them (mostly you see him use them out of desperation or for dramatic shots like the howling commandos busting into that building etc).  He handles them like an amateur, which, frankly, he is.

But take a look at how Cevans handles that fucking shield.  Fuck, half the time he’s MIMING using it, and even that is fucking UNREAL.  I have to sit and remind myself that he’s busy grabbing air.  But when he isn’t, the amount of control he has over what is really unwieldy object?  DAMN.  That shield is Steve’s weapon. That’s what he has respect for, which is why when he drops it on the helicarrier in TWS, it’s powerful. 

So yeah, he may not be great at guns, but watch Sebastian or Tom Hiddleston try to wield Steve’s shield.  Like a window shutter in a hurricane.  Cevans just has his own prop forte.