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brushwolf ([personal profile] brushwolf) wrote in [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2014-04-24 03:04 pm (UTC)

I know the one you're talking about, it's from around the end of the war.

I actually can see Steve being really interested in Rockwell on a personal level - he would've grown up with Leyendecker, then Rockwell being prominent illustrators, and my impression is that what the general public "knew" about those guys at the time was very sanitized. Someone who suddenly skipped ahead in time from 1945 to 1980-2000ish would learn about Rockwell's human side too, which includes;

  • being a scrawny kid who put a huge amount of effort into joining the Navy because It Was the Right Thing to Do
  • serving as the front man for what "the American common man" was supposed to think
  • splitting up with an employer over willingness to tackle social inequality rather than simply present the same official face
  • somehow, still retaining a batch of basically populist and optimistic views

This sounds exactly like a superhero we know.

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