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Cecil always looks exactly as you would expect him to look. It is his power, his strangeness, his mutation.
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1. It is an original story by an original director that cares more about characters and humanity than sex scenes and explosions.
2. It is one of the few summer blockbusters that is practical effects heavy. Not everything…
A surprising number of commentators seem to think Pacific Rim is a dumb movie. Tonight, I explain why it’s not dumb at all. It just uses a different type of intelligence than we’re used to analyzing: a visual intelligence.
The OP linked me this analysis they did and it’s a very detailed and interesting piece about Pacific Rim’s subtle ‘show not tell’ technique and very nicely informative. Recommended for people who enjoyed it and for people aspiring to be writers, filmmakers,and artists in general!
Wonderful piece.
This is a really good read for anyone who wasn’t a fan of Pacific Rim because “flat characters" or “Mako wasn’t strong enough" and stuff like that.
But seriously, go read this.
My only gripe about Mako’s character development was that she let Raleigh take on the Australian kid for her.
I realize it showed her self-restraint and to me suggested she respected her mentor enough not to knowingly disturb order like that. But on the other hand, I would’ve appreciated if she had requested an apology instead of just sitting back and letting Raleigh ~defend her honor~.
Really that’s my only major quibble with the movie.
Yeah, this bugged me too. It’s definitely not a perfect film RE: feminism. Mako’s body language kind of felt out of character in that moment to me too… I don’t know. it was one of the few scenes that didn’t work for me.
I addressed it here, but basically:
Here is the sequence of how a ‘protective scene’ is edited:
Threatening opponent -> Fearful reaction of victim -> Protagonist stepping in (usually bodily) -> Antagonist escalating -> optional: reaction of victim -> Protagonist action/reaction -> Exchange of blows, wide shot for context + closeup of face/struggle -> reaction shots of victim approval and/or background characters approval -> more fighting/fight end
The reaction/approval of the victim and background is key for this to work, […] for a failure of the same concept take any of the fight sequences in Man of Steel.
Want to see a successful version of this? Captain America in the bank during the final battle in Avengers. You’re always rooted/referencing back to the ‘victims’ in the bank, the people who Captain America is protecting.
Mako restrained herself when the slur was being used against her, and was not part of the fight at all. She was not actually being protected, Raleigh was flying off the handle.
My dad fixes surfboards for friends… This one was dropped off today. Typed message was taped to it. They’re so sinister.
Literally from Jim Moriarty.
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