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Thinking about Zemo, as you do
I rewatched some of his scenes in Civil War yesterday ...
It actually ended up influencing a couple bits of Soldat, because he's so incredibly subdued and emotionally buttoned down, much more so than in the show. He made absolutely no impression on me whatsoever when I watched the movie before, I didn't even remember him (much), and while that's a pretty common experience for me to have with characters before I started paying attention to them - there are a lot of examples where I went back and rewatched later and they were entirely themselves from the beginning - I think Zemo in CW actually is much less vivid and vibrant than he is in TFATWS.
But! I mean!! The metatextual explanation could easily be down to directing or writing or whatever, but it makes complete sense in-universe that he'd be emotionally shut down and largely affectless, because his family just died - about a year or so earlier if the MCU timeline at that point was still roughly synced to the actual years, I think. He's severely depressed, suicidal, and grieving. Which, I mean, is obviously "Cool motive, still murder," but it does explain why he's so entirely goal-oriented and emotionally flat throughout the movie.
He's still a little bit that way when Bucky comes to see him in the German prison, at least at first - I love how visibly and completely he turns on when Bucky mentions the serum and Zemo realizes that he has another goal. But he's also had several years to recover, as much as one can, and gets out of prison with a hedonistic interest in feeling things again.
It's just interesting to me that, whatever the behind-the-scenes reasons for it, you can connect those emotional beats so easily in what shows up onscreen.
Also, I need to go watch everything Daniel Brühl has ever been in.
It actually ended up influencing a couple bits of Soldat, because he's so incredibly subdued and emotionally buttoned down, much more so than in the show. He made absolutely no impression on me whatsoever when I watched the movie before, I didn't even remember him (much), and while that's a pretty common experience for me to have with characters before I started paying attention to them - there are a lot of examples where I went back and rewatched later and they were entirely themselves from the beginning - I think Zemo in CW actually is much less vivid and vibrant than he is in TFATWS.
But! I mean!! The metatextual explanation could easily be down to directing or writing or whatever, but it makes complete sense in-universe that he'd be emotionally shut down and largely affectless, because his family just died - about a year or so earlier if the MCU timeline at that point was still roughly synced to the actual years, I think. He's severely depressed, suicidal, and grieving. Which, I mean, is obviously "Cool motive, still murder," but it does explain why he's so entirely goal-oriented and emotionally flat throughout the movie.
He's still a little bit that way when Bucky comes to see him in the German prison, at least at first - I love how visibly and completely he turns on when Bucky mentions the serum and Zemo realizes that he has another goal. But he's also had several years to recover, as much as one can, and gets out of prison with a hedonistic interest in feeling things again.
It's just interesting to me that, whatever the behind-the-scenes reasons for it, you can connect those emotional beats so easily in what shows up onscreen.
Also, I need to go watch everything Daniel Brühl has ever been in.
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