BullMcGiveny
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Once again like I asked you before, if it is not his film, then who's is it? Please break it down for me in detail.
It is a narrow ensemble.
I don't subscribe to your rigid, technical system. I weigh characters by who changes the most, who gets the emotional beats, etc. I judge it by who does the story serve most, rather than who serves it.
Pierce and Fury have their shared arc, BW has her own. These arcs exist for their own sake, not for Steve's. They have a shared theme of the cost of compromise, which Steve doesn't really share.
BW starts out as a satisfied enforcer for Fury, confronts the real meaning of her service of SHIELD, and ends up being the one to release the files (including her own) to the internet, which the movie portrays as a big heroic moment for her. Steve decided SHIELD needed to go, but it was just a setup for BW to be the one to do it.
Fury similarly has an arc of doing increasingly underhanded things in the name of the greater good, until he realizes where it lead, and similarly takes part in the dismantling of shield.
Steve starts with an arc of his own, about the murkiness of the modern world, but then it evaporates. He finds out that HYDRA, an old familiar unambiguous enemy is behind most of the murkiness. His arc evaporates. He doesn't grow, he regresses by falling into old familiar patterns.
From then, he supports Fury and BW's arcs, and has emotional beats from finding out Bucky is alive, which is all told a fairly minor development.
I know people like to talk about how heroic Cap is for refusing to kill Bucky, but it really isn't.
Fury and BW get solid arcs. Cap is the lynchpin that maybe holds it together, or the POV, but ultimately he gets something much weaker than others. The story isn't all that geared to serve him, so I don't see it as his story.
That is why this is not an Avengers movie and it is a Cap one. Avengers films are designed so everyone is more or less of equal importance (though even there it varies...but it has no 1 central main character is the point).
'Avengers are equal, except some Avengers are more equal than others' is what you're saying.