#i think its very important alexei is like a bad person but still loveable

[loveablehands]

watching bw again: BLACK WIDOW SPOILERS

this time things i notice: [part 1]

-alexei comes home, immeidately grabs a drink, calls nat baby, asks how everyone’s day is but doesn’t listen. he’s excited, but also confused, hurried, a little overwhelmed with the suddenness of so much silence for so long and then THIS.

-loves ranch apparently, and NO ONE ELSE DOES. probably loves fruit roll ups, bc he has them for yelena in the car. this is so funny to me natasha and yelena definitely make fun of him for this later. alexei drinks raw ranch packets when

melina says she doesn’t want to go home, he says ‘don’t say that’ and tells them they’re going on the ‘great adventure [they] talked about’ and he’s smiling with a light in his eyes that seems genuine

he mouths the words to american pie before yelena even starts singing

melina is crying in the station wagon b she does NOT want to go home THAT badly, rubbing her temple and pulling on the skin bc she’s frusturated

on the second watch i know that nat already knows how to fly this damn plane yelena & melina definitely taught her lmfao but it’s still heartbreaking that she’s distracted by the bullets hurting her ‘family’ and she’s relieved when they’re in the air even if she’s fucked up by the time they land

immediately alexeiwants a grand return with his ‘friend’ but his ‘friend’ only cares about his family and the mission

alexei turns off his accent and plays american dad again to distract them. u can argue he really means it when  he says they’re tough but i dont entirely believe that bc i think he would’ve thought america made at least yelena soft bc there’s no evidence they were explicitly training her from the start, tho that would be interesting, and i think he does teach her spy things out of sheer boredom when drunk. 

they are his girls tho, and the way he says natasha is reverent and proud and he knows she’s special BECAUSE she turns the gun on him. and he keeps yelena’s stuffed animal. i wonder how long he kept it. i guess it would’ve been comically evil if he threw it away immediately or too obvious if it showed up in  his prison cell (and i dont think he has a single possession of his own there tbh, that he pretends he doesn’t need anyway bc #no possessions #communism but whatever)

i want threads that turn the american propaganda of this into like, american horror tbh. it CAN be done and well and it would be super sexy and aesthetic and fun.

u can say whatever u want about dc movies but marvel movies dont hit the same way aesthetically, they just aren’t camp, and i just want heightened insanity of this situation in ohio and like, alexei losing his mind is prison craving the sugary foods from 90s ohio and getting all these pop songs from america stuck in his head LOL. he probably rented space jam 1 from blockbuster for yelena