The best thing about this score is Silvestri's instantly memorable five-note fanfare for Cap. Yet that fanfare also has an ironic weakness. Its rousing chest-thumping projection of strength, resilience, and nostalgic Americana is ill-suited for subtler or gentler referencing or interpolation within the narrative underscore. While the fanfare is great for a dramatic punctuation whenever Cap does some heroic feat, or makes a dramatic entrance, it is ill-equipped for anything else.
Which is appropriate for Cap, considering how every conflict is rooted in Cap's rigid and inflexible beliefs standing firm against beliefs and forces that oppose him. Making the fanfare's ballsy intractability a perfect auditory representation for how out of step the man is with just about everyone and everything around him. Nice.
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