Joe Russo Explains Why CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR Is a Cap-Bucky Love Story
Captain America: Civil War has been described as being many things — an action movie, a political thriller, and a versus film. After all, we will see The Avengers turn on each other and fight. However, the movie is also a love story, but not that kind of love story. This is a love story that focuses on the relationship between Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes. These guys are best freakin' friends who have been torn apart by war. During an interview with Empire, director Joe Russo explained how their relationship makes this film a love story:
"What’s fascinating about the Cap-Bucky story as well is it’s a love story. These are two guys who grew up together, and so they have that same emotional connection to each other as brothers would, and even more so because Bucky was all Steve had growing up.
"Is he good or is he bad? Steve has to answer that question for himself, and there are other characters in the movie who hold the opposite point of view. It becomes a very explosive. It incites a lot of conflict."
Sebastian Stan added his two cents to the conversation likening the relationship of the two characters to Will Smith and Martin Lawrence dynamic in the Bad Boys movies:
"I think it’s easy and generalizing it to say that they’re lovers, when you’re forgetting that one has a lot of guilt because he swore to be the protector of the other, the father figure or older brother so to speak, and then left him behind. I have no qualms with it but I think people like to see it much more as a love story than it actually is. It’s brotherhood to me."
I think a lot of us have these brotherhood or sisterhood relationships with our friends, so it's easy to understand what Stan is saying here. Judging from what we've seen in the trailers, Cap believes Bucky still has some good in him and he's so loyal to him that he is willing to fight and risk his life to save him by taking on Tony Stark and his team. It's really tragic that it has come to this, but Cap always fights for what he believes is right.