#captainjanek

actually, i remember when i watched age of ultron and i commented with a friend who didn’t it yet, and she wasn’t surprised at all! i remember she told me “hulk and widow? this two were totally OTP since the first one, you blind!”

I feel the same, anon! The two of them were the secret weapon of that movie, I swear. Their individual arcs were well developed but their arc together was equally well-defined and so important to understanding both of them - their first scene together in Calcutta was the first scene in which they are both introduced and it tells us so much about both of them (and here we are really seeing Nat for the first time - we see more of her personality and vulnerability than we ever did in Iron Man 2). They both interact with a lot of different characters in the film and share memorable moments with them, but I know for sure that Nat actually spoke with Bruce more than any other character. She was his handler, of sorts, for the duration of the film. Actually, in that scene, she follows him over to the Tesseract-tracking computer after he’s just finished telling her that she “dragged” him away from his own mission of atonement. After the lab explodes, she tells him that she “swears on [her] life” that she will “get him out of this” and he “will never-” and that part is cut off. But I think she was telling him that she’d get him out of this whole thing. She didn’t know about phase 2 - Fury didn’t tell her (and as we see in TWS, even though she totally trusts him, there are a lot of things he doesn’t tell her and Bruce realizes this in their very first scene together in Calcutta - “And he tells you everything?” - a query Nat doesn’t answer). She didn’t mean for Bruce to be wrapped up in something that not only derails his own quest for atonement but goes against his principles. She feels genuine remorse for her part in that, and empathizes with him. 

Anyway, I’ve analyzed the heck out of their amazing arc in Avengers (the arc everyone seems to forget about and/or refuses to analyze) and you can check out my meta and the meta of others on BruceNat interaction in Avengers under the following links:

The Calcutta Scene

More About the Calcutta Scene

Bruce & Natasha Dealing with Their Shadow Selves

19. have you ever felt like you had a “mind-meld” with someone?

yes. i had a wonderful friend a few years ago (he moved away – we’re still kind of in touch, but we’re both also very busy people) with whom i could say literally anything & he’d follow it with the very thing i was about to say next, and vice versa. we were very in the habit of finishing each other’s sentences & having ridiculously similar opinions / ways of doing something? so, a year-long mind meld, if you will. not in the star trek sense.

2. have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who?

kafka, honestly. but also jane austen – it’s why p&p’s been my favorite book forever! perhaps i just aspire to think just like jane austen. also DONNA TARTT thinks like the aspirational nightmare version of myself & it’s lovely, or maybe that too is just that – aspirational

24. pick one of your favorite quotes:

“they’re very swell legs & it’s a pleasure to make their acquaintance”

(but more seriously: “let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!” i’ve never loved required reading more)

sheilatakesabow replied to your post “It’s some kind of Jesus holiday so most places are closed and Eve has...”

Have a nice time watching the film with Eve! :)

I will! And I’ll let you guys know what I thought about it when I’ve seen it :)

captainjanek replied to your post “It’s some kind of Jesus holiday so most places are closed and Eve has...”

the rotten tomatoes rating is like 90-something percent and I've read nothing but good things about it! enjoy!

I don’t normally trust the rotten tomatoes ratings since I rarely agree with critics (I prefer letterboxd.com), but yeah, it looks like we have one of those rare movies that both the critics and audiences seem to love :) I was never a huge fan of the original Mad Max movies, but damn, Fury Road looks amazing. And 2+ hours with Tom Hardy and Charlize is always money well spent!

ikol-liesmith replied to your post “It’s some kind of Jesus holiday so most places are closed and Eve has...”

Honestly, I was almost 'blah' at AoU trailer. But Mad Max? It rocked and gave me chill (both w/the opera & the intl trailer which was scary). Maybe trailers can dictate the films? Btw, I think the new crimson peak trailer revealed too much.

I thought the first AoU trailer was great, but the marketing did the same weird thing with AoU that they did with IM3 where they were trying to sell a much darker image of the movie than AoU actually turned out to be. Which is weird, because by now it’s become pretty clear that Marvel/Disney will never go properly ~dark~. Though I guess Ragnarök and Civil War might change that.