#Cliff Walkers

[wangmiao]

Yu Hewei as Zhou Yi in 悬崖之上 | Cliff Walkers (2021)

[01432853]

Cliff Walkers (2021) dir. Zhang Yi Mou

[shanghai-thirties]

Cliff Walkers ( 悬崖之上), dir. Zhang Yimou, 2021 part 2

[kiaerinnn]

HELP he said "that's my fucking dad."😭💀 (edit: wow this is my most liked post I didn't think yall would like it that much- and I didn't make this, I saw it on tt)

7 months later and almost 1700 likes- dang!

[pablolf]

Film Journal

"Cliff Walkers" by Yimou Zhang

[aresonist]

this was gonna be more cliff focused but um libber showed up in my brian and um

[qulans6ri]

When i say “i want Jay to learn more about his bio parents or have him be shown conflicted or any other type of emotion about them”

i dont mean “yaay jay meets his real parents” because jay himself established (in skybound) that his parents are and will always be Ed and Edna(love them so much!!), but that doesnt mean that Libber and Cliff arent an important and interesting part of his character,

Cliff still knew that Jay was his child and had pictures of him in his office(or whatever it was i forgot), and watched after him, but that doesnt mean that he also wasnt a an absent and bad parent because he was as seen below:(+skybound fact)

So this makes it so much interesting, he still loved him but also wasnt a great father(and a husband)

And Libber is a whole other story!!! I cant even desrcibe how many possibilities this leaves for her!

Knowing Prime Empire’s og plot(where she would be used as a living battery for the game by Milton Dyer(i think thats the right name lol)) ,i think that she cared for jay but left either due to such kidnapping or dangerous adventures, or due to toxic relationship and inability(no emotional support, being scared for jay due to her own dangerous lifestyle etc etc)to raise a kid well and im 100% she would not want Cliff to raise Jay lmaoo

Its just that u cant have so much information and not actually illustrate it, no Jay doesn’t have to super want to meet or know about libber or gordon, his parents are Ed and Edna, but maybe at least explain them more through other stuff or smth idk, anyways Ed,Edna and Jay 🔛🔝

[spork-supremacy]

like imagine Cole and Jay just having a casual conversation at some point right before the upcoming day of the departed (after crystalised) and they're just randomly thinking about death.

"Isn't it kinda weird that some of us have died so many times."

"You've all died once, you just don't remember."

"What about you?"

"I haven't. Guess the universe has never gotten around to me. "

"Heh, maybe it has something really special planned for you."

No, it just won't let me die. Believe me I've tried.

(also this specific thing is playing over the scene)

[penofwildfire]

I cannot be convinced that Jay doesn't have a half-sibling or two hanging around somewhere

[notsosmug87]

Much like how Libbers full name is Liberty Gordon,

If her and cliff did name Jay I think she’d name him Jason Gordon. but like her, everyone would call him Jay for short.

I’m actually surprised No one ever calls him Jason once in the whole series.

But I think because of his DR season 2 scene his first name might just be Jay.

Or maybe he just doesn’t like going by Jason much like libber who doesn’t like going by Liberty.

[shanghai-thirties]

Cliff Walkers ( 悬崖之上), dir. Zhang Yimou, 2021

[mx-julien]

ninjas' relationship with a home

Zane is used to moving on from places, as an amnesiac orphan he was used to getting up and carrying on, then his only temporary home, the Monastery, burns down (ref: s1 ep2 Home) and the others blame him for it. granted, he seems unaffected from these accusations and proceeds to find the Destiny's Bounty that day so all is forgiven

I wonder if some of this longing for a home was intensified after he regains his memories in Tik Tok (s1 ep7). because then he would be able to remember a time of prolonged safety and living with people you love

Kai and Nya lived at the blacksmith shop presumably since their parents got kidnapped by Krux and Acronix. Nya even had enough time to create a whole secret room of armor

the first years must've been especially hard given all the reminders of their parents being around. did they leave their bedroom untouched, save for the occasional cleaning?

did Kai have to pull up a stool to the stove to cook until he hit his growth spurt? are most of Nya's memories in that house of Kai making her lunches and tucking her in at night and sending her off to school?

who takes care of the shop while they're gone? and when they come back do they notice everything looks a little smaller- each corner thick with dust and the fingerprints of afternoons when they were 12 and only had each other?

Jay lived with Ed and Edna in the scrapyard since he was little and he can visit back there whenever he likes, but now he has another family to think about: the one he never had, the one that gave him away

however after Skybound he knows he has other parents as well. does he ever sit in the kitchen he grew up in and wonder if his biomom had any recipes she wanted to pass down? if she ever saw families or little kids and thought of him? if they have the same smile or same freckles or same laugh?

sure he can learn about Cliff all he wants and he loves his Mom and Dad dearly, but was there more? could he have learned to master lightning with his Mom? where was she when he was growing up? was she unable to see him or unwilling? is she even alive?

Cole's house is likely the same as when he was little, so he too can go visit, but I wonder if he went off to "boarding school" because after his Mom died he couldn't stand to be at home

what was a place to laugh and paint became gray when Lilly got ill. it turned into a place of hushed voices and packed bags for the hospital. after she died it was the home of yelling, of arguments, of tradition vs. passion. smiles became forced and doors only slammed shut.

with more time having passed, I wonder if Cole is glad that so many things of his are mostly untouched since his Mom died. he can find her neat handwriting on some notes in his desk, in books on the shelves, and point out decor she bought

Lloyd only had a complete home for a small part of his childhood before Misako left him at Darkley's. then, he must've lived somewhere close to the school. when he was doing Pythor's bidding, he seemed to be mostly homeless

after growing up deserted at a boarding school (that he clearly didn't like) and manipulated into long treks and homelessness to do the bidding of a snake, perhaps his misbehavior at the beginning of his stay on the Bounty was because he couldn't imagine it lasting. him? a place where he felt at home? better the devil you know than the devil you don't- just toss me back out on the streets I don't CARE!

when do you think he realized that the others weren't going to leave him like his Mom did or take advantage of him like Pythor? how many months in did it take him to realize that his uncle Wu wasn't the only one who wanted him there?

any particular ninja y'all want me to focus on drop in the tags or replies- I'm real interested about this now

[tommysm0ondust]

little thought of mine

I think it would've been cool if they didn't call jay in DR agent Walker, and instead used his birth dad's last name.

hear me out ok, like.

yes it's not his name, but that way he'd be agent Gordon, the ninja wouldn't recognize it, and then when season 2 happens if they go to the administration or smth they'll hear Abt this mysterious agent Gordon and they won't know who it is

until they meet him and are like "WHAT?? JAY???" bc I feel like if they hear agent Walker they're. they're gonna know guys.

like, pls tell me you guys get my vision

anyways

I absolutely adore that they call him agent Walker btw idk it's just so. mmmm

[robodove]

ough I couldn't help myself. Here's all three of my little glacier kid guys!! THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING, I KNOW.

(super old and blurry picture of Iva with Cole and Zane)

ive posted Jasmine before but never her siblings!!

Iva is actually Karlof's biological daughter but was adopted by the two of them after some shenanigans. She takes more of a samurai x role! Albeit not a samurai.. maybe like a warrior?

[Karlof didn't want to be a father and had only learned of her after her birth (I think I wrote that her mother just didn't want her??). Anyways after encountering the ninja, he brings up not being sure what to do.! He's absolutely miserable like this!! And he can't send her someplace like an orphanage because she's the child of an elemental master! Cole agrees to try and find a place for her.. but along the way winds up adopting her with Zane]

CJ is just a silly guy... he's a lot more cautious than most of the others (apart from one) and is often the one to point out "do we WANT to do this? Is this a good idea?"

anyways here's the other goobers, idk if I wanna keep Marina and Cliff around since I'm not a huge jaya fan. I like them! I just am not sure about them...

Axel is the kid of Skylor and Pixal!!

Hero, as u can see, has a bit of an updated design that I'm not sure of

[I ALSO. HAVE A FRIEDCHICKEN KID BUT HE'S MORESO A JOKE]

[aresonist]

libs

[miakwat]

Do you think Jay went to go find Cliff Gordon after Skybound