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TITANIC 1997 | dir. James Cameron

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Amor a Psyché by Károly Lotz (1890)

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By Raqueltravelillustration

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any mutuals wanna have group nap time

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merry crisis

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NO WAY-

The wolf really followed him through each of his deaths-

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I got chills. It's happening 😭

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The best advice that Death gives to Puss after he spared him.

He’s one of the few villains who exist to teach the protagonist a lesson. Such a well written character.

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its been months since i watched puss in boots: the last wish, and i havent stopped thinking about how good it is. specifically, how it used its own genre as a plot device

when you go in to watch an animated family film, you think, surely no character will die in this. or if they do die, theyll probably fall off a cliff and land offscreen or something. no one actually brutally dies in a cartoon. theyre not even allowed to show blood! but then puss DOES bleed. and just as that scene is the turning point that makes him realize that hes not invincible, it makes the audience realize that this movie can get dark

but its not like the entire movie is grimdark after that. its still a family film! silly stuff still happens! its just that every so often in the middle of all the silliness, the wolf appears, and both we and puss are violently reminded that he very much can die die. this doesnt affect any of the other characters' goals, because why would the prospect of puss's death affect them? but for puss, who thought he was immortal, it's enough to send him into a fucking panic attack. it's a perfect illustration of how concepts like death are always lurking in the background

and i havent even started talking about THE SONG!! when i first saw this movie and heard puss singing fearless hero in the beginning, i thought, "oh, this is a musical!" but its NOT. no other song is sung by the characters throughout the film, but the same song is sung over and over, and it fits because puss is trying desperately to hold on to his past glory as a "fearless hero." and the lyrics: "Who's the gato who rolls the dice? / And gambles with his life?! / Who's never been touched by a blade? / Puss in Boots is never afraid!" hearing them the first time, they sound like normal lyrics youd hear in a song about how heroic a character is, but then it turns out to be clever foreshadowing because these traits (gambling with one's life, pretending youre never afraid, etc) are the very traits that puss had to let go of in the end to finally be able to confront death. i could go on and on about how amazingly this song was used in the movie, but the point is that they never would have been able to pull it off if this werent a family movie where characters bursting into song is seen as normal

seriously, this movie is SO cleverly done. even the fact of it being a 10-year-late sequel adds to the whole idea of puss being a past legend at the start. like, the concept of someone trying to evade death has been done many times already in other forms of media, but the way that puss in boots 2 executed it could ONLY have been done as an animated PG shrek spinoff

its SO SO GOOD and i hope to god it wins the oscar for best animated film

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Knew I had to hop on this

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Fear

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Everyone: fighting and trying to not get into the vaporizing barrier

Death:

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Everyone after the Puss in Boots movie: omg I can’t believe Dreamworks actually included a drop of blood on screen!! animation studios never show blood!!

1990s Dreamworks, taking a drag from their cigarette: bet

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Guess what I watched and cried about.

Shrek has a very special place among my childhood favorites and Puss in boots is one of my earliest cartoon crushes, so I already decided I would love this movie even before watching it- BUT DREAMWORKS DIDN'T HAVE TO GO THIS HARD ON A 11 YEAR LATE SEQUEL THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD

THE ANIMATION STYLE, EVERY CHARACTER, THE FIGHT SCENES, THE WHOLE STORY, THE ENDING WAS PERFECT.. EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT

Seriously, Death was the best and the SCARIEST villain I've seen in a while, AND he is in a animated movie for kids full of fairy tale parodies.

Now I need to see their wedding ...why are cats so hard to draw

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The moment everyone decided Peter and Nebula were married

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Why are people mad about how GotG3 handled Gamora? And you're makin it about james gunn simping a racoon? stfu. She got to go back to her Ravager squad, didn't have to accept a pushy man she didn't know, and wasn't punished by the narrative for making her own choices. You know how rare that is for hollywood? like damn y'all so fixated on shipping you're lowkey committing A Misogyny

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The fact that Peter knows that Nebula is worried and NEEDS his reassurance that they will be fine