{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Marvel Movie Minute","title":"CATWS Minutes 31-35 • Competence Porn, Vibranium Negligence, and the Most Suspicious Stereo in Marvel History","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1888,"description":"At some point you have to admire the ambition. Nick Fury, director of SHIELD and one of the most powerful intelligence operatives on the planet, decides his best option in the middle of a heavily armed ambush is to go off the grid. In Washington, DC. One of the most surveilled, camera-dense, Secret Service-saturated cities in the Western Hemisphere. He pulls it off. Sort of. The Winter Soldier may have opinions about that.\nThis week, the MMM crew digs into minutes thirty-one through thirty-five of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Five minutes that include a car chase Rob argues is a direct homage to Clear and Present Danger (a film the Secret Service apparently uses as a training video to this day, which is alarming), a weapons-system AI with more personality than most supporting characters, and the single most casual entrance of any Marvel villain in the entire MCU. When Dirty Dirty Bucky steps into frame in broad daylight, giant weapon in hand, absolutely unbothered, we discover that sometimes the scariest thing isn’t someone chasing you. It’s someone who already knew exactly where you’d be.\nAlso: Steve Rogers leaves his vibranium shield propped up in a hallway like it’s a wet umbrella, we name the Winter Soldier’s magnetic mystery weapon (“Skippy”), a 1990s film-within-a-film becomes the Rosetta Stone for this entire movie’s aesthetic, and J.D. Salinger’s son has a cameo in a Captain America film that explains a very specific Easter egg on a bookshelf. It’s that kind of episode.\nEpisode Notes & LinksClear and Present Danger (1994) — Harrison Ford thriller Rob argues is the direct blueprint for the car chase sequence; reportedly used by the Secret Service as a training filmThe French Connection (1971) — Pete and Kyle ID the low-angle car-mounted camera shots as a reference; connected through Bullitt as wellBullitt (1968) — mentioned alongside The French Connection as an ancestor of the practical car chase cinematographyAvengers: Age of Ultron — Kyle notes...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JlOjETb_he-Cl9RIo-EmPIK5n5bllZ_Q1aRAfBGlSIE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iMzBi/NWYzMjA0MzBiNTQy/ODhhODNmNGEzNjVj/OTFiYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}