nine ✪ video/spam

[imfollowinghim]

[Bucky clicks on the video feed and leans back from the communicator, which is propped on a table in a common room so you're getting a decent view of Bucky - again in his fatigue green jacket and trousers, the hem of which are tucked into the top of his boots - crouched next to the television and the DVD player, remote control in hand. He looks a little amused by his apparent predicament, and is at least approaching it with good humor.]

I'm sure this isn't gonna come as a surprise to anyone, considering most of you've got a good sixty years on me, but I've got no idea how to work this thing and a couple decades of movies to catch up on. [So if someone could talk him through this, that would be awesome.]

On top of that, I've got an inmate who's never seen anything, let alone stuff I've missed out on, so if anyone's got any suggestions for stuff to show him, I'd be happy to hear 'em.

[Open Spam for the Shooting Range]

[With an inmate who requires almost constant supervision and very little sleep, Bucky doesn't have a ton of free time on his hands, usually. Calling in Steve, Peggy and Natasha to help out took some of the pressure off, but he still felt sort of stupid handing Ben over to them for any significant period of time, considering he was his responsibility, and there was a part of him he was reluctant to acknowledge that worried about what would happen if Ben snapped again and attacked them. He knew they could handle themselves fine, but they were still people he didn't want hurt if he could help it, and so for the most part, he didn't wander too far.

But Ben was working on the dinner shift with Natasha and Rhade right now, and so Bucky was taking the opportunity to head up to the shooting range to get in a little target practice. It's half stress relief, half actually practicing, because being able to hit pretty much any target thrown at him wasn't really a skill you wanted to get rusty with in a place like the Barge.

He let himself in, scoped the place out for a second or two to see who else was there, and immediately headed to pick out a target.]

Comments

[most_feared]

The Elephant Man? It's about Joseph Merrick, though they call him something different in the movie. [There's a chance that Bucky, coming from the time period he was from, would remember him as Merrick died only fifty years before and he had been kind of famous. Depends on how much a poor Depression kid was able to pick up on.]

[imfollowinghim]

Right. [It sounds kind of familiar in a maybe I read about it in a pulp magazine sort of way, but there's no Wikipedia, he dropped out of school after eighth grade to get a job and he's never really been one for reading history books or anything.]

Honestly, I don't know what'd freak him out and what wouldn't. What are the other ones about?

[most_feared]

Once Upon a Time in the West, mysterious stranger helps out a guy protect a woman from an assassin. Ah, Shawshank is a prison story about how a prisoner outed the prison's corrupt authority and escaped. Seven Samurai is about seven guys hired to guard a town from bandits. The Magnificent Seven is the American version of the same story. It's a Wonderful Life is about a guy who's convinced to find value in his life by his guardian angel, but it's usually a Christmas thing. The Sting is about some guys that get together to con a mob boss out of his money. Die Hard is about a cop on vacation who ends up in the same building as it's attacked and he has to take care of the situation pretty much on his own. Blade Runner is a detective story, but with lots of shiny things. And the Princess Bride is about a bratty kid who doesn't want to hear a story because he's already decided he doesn't like it, but then he ends up listening to it and figuring out he did like it after all.

[imfollowinghim]

I'm gonna hafta be a pain in the ass and borrow these from you, you know.

[most_feared]

No problem. [He actually has these on DVD.] I'll throw in Midnight Run and Blues Brothers for something funny. Buddy comedy stuff.

[Movies that Kay will actually laugh at.]

[imfollowinghim]

Thanks. I appreciate it.