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[alleesaur]

in this house we love fixed camera angles and terrible graphics

[andresylupin]

813 is one of my favourite Lupin stories for many reasons, one of these being that it's one of the only stories where Lupin has such an entourage, both with the law and outside of the law (even more so when you check the text originally published in the paper).

The Doudeville brothers, Marco, Jérôme, Charolais, Octave, etc vs. the Doudeville brothers (so funny having double agents playing both sides, and it's actually the same side lmao), Gourel, Formerie, Weber, Valenglay, etc... Interestingly, his relationships with representatives of the law are usually more developed (or at least depicted) than the ones with his accomplices. There's this moment with Valenglay at the end of the book that I especially love, right after Lupin learned the execution of Léon Massier :

Lupin faints in front of the Président du Conseil, he's at his most vulnerable, and Valenglay does this??? I do believe that he does it mostly for political reasons and out of fear of a scandal, but idk, it's so interesting to me the way Leblanc wrote this; Valenglay was a fan of Lenormand, and not particularly hostile towards Lupin either, and he sees this broken man before him, and decides to just. take control. Get him back on his feet, but it almost reads like one of these instances where Lupin quasi-hypnotises people with his iron will except this time he's at the receiving end of it.

+ the way Lupin deals with police throughout the book is so flippant (as per usual mdr (except Gourel, rip)), mocking them at every turn and in the end it comes down to this... "I'm counting on you" seems very ambiguous to me, kinda condescending in a way? But also trusting. It just feels like Valenglay is sending one of his dogs to get the job done, which is downright humiliating for Lupin, but also he could have had him arrested right there and then so yknow 🤷