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Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“Let’s talk about the setting of the Triskellion. We thought a lot about where to put it, and there was something very appealing about setting it there on Roosevelt Island and the Potomac for a number of reasons. On one side of the building there’s classical D.C. and what that represents, and on the other side of the river you have Rosslyn, Virginia with all the new glass modern towers. You try to work the theme of the film into the fabric of your design choices, and this building is sort of sitting between the past and the present or the future. There’s also a very practical thing. We were gonna bring 3 helicarriers over Washington, D.C., and you can’t have them crash in to the city. So if they’re going straight up from the river, they fall straight down back to the river. And it’s the way we avoided mass tragedy.”