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A scene from The Avengers
You guys, The Avengers is a really good movie.
I've seen it like four times now and every time I see it I notice something else and I come away with new ideas. It has a lot of layers and subtleties.
Like for example... This is something![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rainfall noticed in particular on this viewing -- when Loki talks to Natasha, he listens with the appearance of serene interest to her story, but he becomes quickly agitated after she says she wants to clear her ledger.
"Can you? Can you really erase that much red? Your ledger is dripping, gushing blood."
He stalks up to her, hissing about how she's a murderer and she can never atone and Clint is a murderer and he can never atone, and we see her [feigned] reaction to his intensity, and we see him, his reflection skewed over her. He's snarling like this not because he cares about Natasha! He's snarling because this hits home for him -- after everything that's happened, he knows things can't go back to the way they used to be. He can't just go "lol it's cool guys, I know more than a hundred people are dead because of me and I gouged out a man's eye in public and I had a great time doing it, but let's go home and forget this all ever happened."
He is literally staring at his reflection superimposed over Natasha as he tells her that when you do terrible things you can never be forgiven.
That's the part that gets him. Not the part where she's doing it for ~love~ or the part where she'd sell out her species. The part where she thinks it will clean the slate. Because he can't clean his.
/flops around a little desperately
/it's a good movie
Yeah, I'm screwed.
I've seen it like four times now and every time I see it I notice something else and I come away with new ideas. It has a lot of layers and subtleties.
Like for example... This is something
rainfall noticed in particular on this viewing -- when Loki talks to Natasha, he listens with the appearance of serene interest to her story, but he becomes quickly agitated after she says she wants to clear her ledger."Can you? Can you really erase that much red? Your ledger is dripping, gushing blood."
He stalks up to her, hissing about how she's a murderer and she can never atone and Clint is a murderer and he can never atone, and we see her [feigned] reaction to his intensity, and we see him, his reflection skewed over her. He's snarling like this not because he cares about Natasha! He's snarling because this hits home for him -- after everything that's happened, he knows things can't go back to the way they used to be. He can't just go "lol it's cool guys, I know more than a hundred people are dead because of me and I gouged out a man's eye in public and I had a great time doing it, but let's go home and forget this all ever happened."
He is literally staring at his reflection superimposed over Natasha as he tells her that when you do terrible things you can never be forgiven.
That's the part that gets him. Not the part where she's doing it for ~love~ or the part where she'd sell out her species. The part where she thinks it will clean the slate. Because he can't clean his.
/flops around a little desperately
/it's a good movie
Yeah, I'm screwed.
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/takes the gagging over the sewing, though
I have so many thoughts. He's so easy to analyze. And he keeps crying. STOP CRYING, LOKI. MY FEELINGS.
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... and the thing that stuck with me THIS TIME was when Coulson said to Loki that it's in his nature to lose and the look on Loki's face is just... Words are failing me!
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I can't help feeling, Coulson watched that whole Asgardian drama play out, saw Loki drop Thor off the helicarrier. And he comes away from that and says, you're going to lose. It's in your nature. And Loki is not really thrilled (because according to your Stuttgart show, winning and losing is pretty much genetically pre-determined, right, Loki?) and then Coulson explains, it's because you lack conviction. And Loki gets agitated, because he's right, it's something that rings home for him, and it's not just a shot in the dark, Coulson watched him attempt to murder Thor and he could see that Loki wasn't pleased about it and saw his slow, almost grim recovery once Thor was gone and he thought he didn't have an audience because he'd forgotten about Phil.
/adores