I gotta get me one of those: The Winter Soldier has shield envy in deleted scene from
“The airport sequence was obviously complicated,” Joe Russo says. “We wanted to track everybody’s arc and we felt like it was a hair too long, and that beat was coming at a spot when the energy was dropping.”
But the brothers both loved that beat. “We actually made that up on set. It was not scripted,” Joe says.
Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely drafted the moment the morning of the shoot to solve a problem that … it turned out the movie didn’t have.
"We were looking for a transitional moment to get Cap and Bucky back together, but in editorial we ultimately realized we didn’t need that transition,“ Joe says. “It’s actually one of my favorite beats in that whole sequence, but it’s just a function of storytelling and editing, and wasn’t something we needed to tell the story, but it’s a great bit for the DVD.”