>>82902290But it didn't actually evoke any emotion, though. RDJ's delivery of "He killed my mom" and "You don't deserve that shield" had more weight to it than the whole "Martha" scene.
"He killed my mom." The whole sentence is incredibly heavy. Anyone can relate to that feeling of helplessness and rage - especially from someone who seems to take as little truly seriously in life these days as Tony Stark. It's the character in a dark place that we haven't really seen - not one of his own demons, but one of pure hatred of someone else. Someone he thought was a friend.
"WHO'S MARTHA? WHO'S MARTHA? WHERE DID YOU HEAR THAT NAME?"
"It's his mother!"
Lois' very fucking delivery sounds like just as much of an explanation to the audience as it does to Bruce. It's a screenplay beat that has an emotional core to it - you're right about that - but there was no genuine panic or fear of actually losing Ma Kent in the scene. There was none of the helplessness communicated to us that the Russos did through Tony.
The article can talk all it wants about how it humanizes Clark in Bruce's eyes, but the fact is that at the climax of Civil War, all the differences in ideology and personality that have been building between Tony and Steve for four years have just boiled over, and it's over the truth behind the deaths of people they both loved. When you put both scenes into the context of their movies, one clearly resonates with an audience more than the other.
