Bucky will have a Darker Edge in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER

Movie Captain America by Joey Paur

According to Captain America director Joe Johnston James "Bucky" Barnes isn't going to be the sidekick we all thought he was going to be in Captain America: The First Avenger. Apparently they gave this Bucky a much darker edge. According to the director this won’t be your grandfather’s idea of a superhero sidekick. 

Sebastian brought something really interesting and slightly on the dark side and really compelling to watch — when he’s on camera, you’re fascinated by watching him. In a great cast, I thought he really stood out and brought some unexpected things to the role. Everyone brought something to the movie and a lot of them brought something great but I was most pleasantly surprised by what Chris brought and what Sebasatian brought in a much smaller role as Bucky.

This sounds incredibly intriguing. I'm glad they went with the gritty Band of Brothers route. I really wasn't expecting to see a dark side to Bucky in this movie, but I will welcome the change because it may make the character much more compelling. When Johnson was asked about it he said,

Sebastian has a dark, slightly quirky side to him — and that’s the case when he’s in character or not — and he brought that to this movie.

You know, he was originally up for the lead, for the Steve Rogers role, but he didn’t have quite the same earnest, I-want-to-fight-for-my-country aura that Chris has for this role. Sebastian has a little bit of the bad boy, he’s a little bit of the James Dean type and that goes somewhat counter to the general perception of Steve Rogers. He wasn’t quite right for Captain America,  but I think he’s perfect for Bucky because, really, he can have a little bit of that dark side.

Johnson goes on to talk about how the relationship between Captain America and bucky has changed as well.

We took some liberties with the relationship between the two guys. In our story, Bucky is already in the service, he’s already joined up and is being sent overseas while Steve is still struggling to get in the army. That’s different than what you may have read in the comics. It adds a nuance to the relationship that pays off later. They’re closer in age, too — they’re virtually the same age. That’s not the case at all if you go back to the old comics.

I really like this new dynamic to the characters. It definitely makes the relationship a lot more interesting, and gives everyone something fun and original to play with. According to the LA Times "both Rogers and Barnes are orphans and grow up almost as brothers. Rogers is too sickly to enlist in the service and instead he volunteers for a dangerous and secret experiment that might make him the first of an army of super-soldiers.  That fact changes the physics of his friendship with Bucky, and the movie jettisons the hero’s almost paternal treatment of Bucky. This version of Bucky Barnes is less wise-cracking and more of a crack shot with his service rifle."

I really don't care that they've taken the liberty to change some things for the Captain America film. I know it isn't true to the comics, but I can't help but love the ideas that they have implemented, it sounds a lot more interesting, and I'm extremely excited to check it out! 

What do you all think of the changes?

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