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TRON: LEGACY (2011) dir. Joseph Kosinski

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spreading you open is the only way of knowing you

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thinking about in season one how Archie Andrews said he always dreamed about moving to the East Village to live with Jughead and how both of their girlfriends would live somewhere else and not with them

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Tom Sturridge x Hugs

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School Banner Analysis

It's time to talk about the school crest we see on the podium/lectern that Dr. Forbes stands at when addressing the assembled school on a few occasions. Though it is a small image with fairly low quality, the promo still from my post yesterday really highlights this crest and shows us some important details.

The Device

There are a few things to talk about here. Perhaps most obvious is the X shape behind the shield, called a saltire, giving us a strong echo of the crossed bones motif that the film focuses on. The saltire cross appears frequently in heraldry and is perhaps most famously seen on the Scottish flag, also called St. Andrew's Cross because the saint was reportedly martyred on a cross of that shape.

The shield (or escutcheon) contains a sable (black) charge of a double thistle and a laurel garland. Thistles are strongly associated with Scotland and they feature in the Royal Arms of Scotland and via The Order of the Thistle. They do also appear in plenty of other heraldic arms, and can represent pain and suffering or strength, bravery, and resilience. (Other examples of thistles in heraldry here.)

Laurel wreaths have represented victory and triumph since the days of ancient Greece, and that meaning is carried through into heraldry as well. The laurel wreaths, garlands, and crowns appear everywhere in Eurocentric cultures, so ubiquitous that you probably don't even register them when you see them. (Other examples of laurel in heraldry here.)

The most noteworthy part of the charge is the spear forming the central axis of the symbol. Like most weapons of the medieval era, spears feature commonly in heraldry, and when drawn especially long, it is blazoned (officially described) as a "pike". I don't need to point out the obvious importance of this symbol in the movie.

Occupying the same place as it does in the order sigil, it serves as the central pillar uniting two halves--two thistles, two branches of laurel--into a single whole.

The Motto

Beneath the device on the banner there is also a motto. The photo is small and zooming in results in terrible pixelation of some of the letters. "Mort" is very clear. The rest can be parsed together with trial and error, and I have arrived at the conclusion that this motto reads "Loyal a la mort." The translation is exactly what it sounds like: Loyal unto death. A Google search shows several extant uses of this motto, one for the Canadian navy and several associated with various families (example above is from the Garling family). I haven't gone further than that because the real world uses aren't important here.

The motto has clear relevance to the narrative, an encapsulation of two separate aspects of the plot. It reflects the Order's expectation that members will support each other and further their aims at all costs, above any other loyalties. It is also the perfect expression of Nigel's life and death, devoted to his beliefs and to Alex as his Jack, to the point of choosing death in order to achieve their unification.

The symbolism was all around Alex his entire life, staring him in the face every morning from his father's podium and even hiding in plain sight in the huge painting of the battle of Bannockburn on the back wall of the assembly hall. The choice remains with the viewer: whether you choose to believe that he remained incognizant of all this until Nigel opened his eyes, or if you think he only claimed ignorance to erase his part in the events of the film.

Miscellaneous Notes:

Although it was already present in the references to the exiled Templars fighting with the Scottish in the Battle of Bannockburn, and the fact that Dr. Forbes is himself Scottish--Nigel points out that both he and Alex are descended from those same Templars--the Scottish connection is only further underlined by the use of the thistle and the saltire cross.

As a side note, I found a school in Australia called Knox Grammar School which uses a device with both a thistle and a saltire cross. It's by no means the same device, but it makes me wonder if someone on the production crew attended that school and pulled from their own experiences to create the banner in the film, maybe as a little inside joke or shout out.

I will address the matter of the Colbie family tree in Nigel's book, and it's very simplified use of heraldic devices in another post. This one is quite long enough.

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excalibur :)

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constantly drawing the same concept. can you guys tell i have a favorite theme? no but really, i’m done now. just had to get the sketch out of my system because what happened on the crawlspace haunts me.

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Media: Paper Bark Films - Promo Stills

Paper Bark Films is the production company founded by Greg Read in 1990 (he's older than I thought he was), which initially focused on documentaries. We know Greg initially conceived of Like Minds as a documentary before turning it into a fictional story. They have a promotional website developed in 2015 for their various projects, along with two sets of photos: a set of promo stills and a series of behind the scenes pics. Most of these promos we've all seen before circulating on Tumblr and Pinterest, etc. I just have a compulsion to track down sources and originals whenever possible.

Due to the age of the movie, we aren't given super high quality files, and I've cropped excess blank areas from the photos. They remain otherwise unedited in any way. Some of these were taken by Sam Oster, previously discussed in this post.

Below this cut is a NSFW photo of Susan in the greenhouse which does show her naked chest. Skip if this bothers you.

There's also a photo of Dr. Forbes, only because the size format matched the other pic. I'm pretty sure he's SFW, unless your workplace is against stern school headmasters. But I have more to say on this photo in a separate post as well.

Paper Bark Films - BTS Photos

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how do i keep these full eized helo

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the fact that i took time out of my day to make this degeneracy is fucking ridiculous and iMll do it again

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but if i'm atlas and you're atlas then who's running the er??

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the absolute silence afterwards is killing me😭

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Hallo! Ik ben izzie alleen hier om uit te drukken

Hi I’m izzie. Only here to exspress

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