#michael green

[ifthesewings--couldfly]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how good Blue Eye Samurai is at avoiding cliches? I 100% - no, 1000% expected Fowler to find out Mizu is a woman through the classic expedient of him ripping her clothes and exposing her breasts - especially since this show doesn’t shy away from nudity. Instead, he pointed out how “his” bones break like a woman’s, and that line was so unexpected and powerful because of course Fowler would know something about women’s bones and the way they break. He’s been doing that for the past 10 years

This show, guys. This show.

[mikyapixie]

𝟖 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐀𝐍 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬!

[emiliosandozsequence]

kings (2009) cr. michael green / sharp objects, gillian flynn / the borgias (2011-2013) cr. neil jordan

[georgimena]

Ok, but why, WHY I just heard about this show?!?! either the IG/Tik Tok algorithm it's shit or it wasn't promoted enough.

This show is amazing!!!

The animation is great, the story keeps you on the edge of your seat, the characters are so good, lots of fights and blood.

And it got renewed for a second season!!!!

Ahhhhh!!!

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Logan (2017, James Mangold)

28/07/2024

[moonsinola]

One of the creators for Blue Eye Samurai, Michael Green, posted Israeli propaganda on his Twitter. This is really disappointing for a show with such strong anti-colonial themes. Please don't watch it or at least pirate it instead.

[onlylonelylatino]

New 52 Supergirl and Silver Banshee by George Pérez

[rptv-tolkien]

Emblem of Durin

by Michael Green

[bluemoonperegrine]

The best Marvel news not out of SDCC

It's possible that I read this when the article was published in June and forgot in the swirl of Midnight Sons rumors.

HOWEVER @sokovianfortune kindly pointed the handful of us Werewolf by Night fanatics to it. Here's the tldr;

Midnight Sons isn't a sure thing, but getting close because they hired Michael Green to write it.

Midnight Sons will be a feature-length movie.

Green wrote the Blade movie that comes out next year. He created Blue Eye Samurai (2023) and co-wrote 2017’s Blade Runner 2049 and Logan. 

I will riot if this movie happens and Jack, Elsa, and Ted are not in it. And by riot I mean "will be very cross and pout a lot."

[appleshmapples]

I remember my friends all saying to boycott blue eyed samurai because the creator was a zionist. I thought it was bunk

Yeah, unfortunately Michael Green is allegedly a Zionist. He posted Israeli propaganda to his twitter. I recently looked through his twitter in order to answer your question and find more intel, but it appears he deleted those posts. I’m assuming they were deleted due to the bad publicity it was causing and a decline in profit for the show.

What we can do it /try/ to boycott blue eye samurai. It is truly a wonderful show and it’s disappointing that the writers are Zionists.

The only screenshot I’ve been able to find about Michael green specifically he states “any person or government that claims to care about the Palestinian people in Gaza should be uniform in their demand that Hamas return every single hostage unharmed and immediately.” Via twitter.

Another screenshot from The Atlantic posting about a statement from Yair Rosenberg, quoting her saying “again and again people say they intend to murder Jews.” Followed with “and yet, century after century, the world produces new, torturous justifications for why anti-Jewish bigots don’t mean what they say- even though they do”

Now I am not sure of Yair is specifically referring to pro Palestinian advocates, because no sane pro Palestinian advocate would wish death on another group of people while simultaneously advocating for a genocide to end. (But then again Zionists are fed ungodly amounts of propaganda stating we apparently hate Jewish people)

So what we should at least try to do, is the bare minimum. Boycott Blue Eye Samurai and other projects by Michael Green and Amber Noizumi’s team.

(And I never even make blue eye samurai content so I think it’s time I remove that from my bio)

[danmeigirl]

Episode 6 : "All Evil Dreams and Angry Words"

[agentnico]

Blue Eye Samurai - Season 1 (2023) Review

Don't think I've ever seen so much human genitalia in animated form all in one go. Makes me wonder if the production team had a designated animator of genitals who literally just spent his time drawing penises for the show. If so, I hope it was Jonah Hill as he already proved in Superbad that he is the perfect artist for this subject.

Plot: Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

Netflix consistently hashes out so much content every week, that it is hard to keep up with any of it, as such many great projects get missed and are forever lost in the streamer's endless library void. Luckily Blue Eye Samurai didn't pass my scrolling and evidently has its fan base, as this is one of the quickest examples of the streaming giant announcing a season renewal after release. Yep, Blue Eye Samurai will be getting a second season which is amazing as this is a superb new series that if you haven't yet discovered then you are doing yourself a disservice and should amend that behaviour immediately and go watch it! Still need persuading? Alright, sit yourself down and allow me to gush about Blue Eye Samurai!...

It’s hard to overstate just how stunning Blue Eye Samurai is to look at. The series uses a mix of 2D and 3D animation styles to create landscapes and characters who seem only a few degrees removed from live-action, even as the form allows for combat on a scale that would cost several large fortunes to craft with flesh-and-blood actors. In fact, looking at the behind-the-scenes the team hired an actual martial arts choreographer to support in creating the combat sequences in real life with real people, and then the movements of those fights were transferred to animation and used in the final product. In one episode (seemingly inspired by the 1978 martial arts film Enter the Game of Death where Bruce Lee had to fight his way up to the tower to get to the last floor) the main samurai Mizu must defeat multiple bosses on each level of the season's big bad Fowler’s impregnable fortress home, and each separate battle is a work of art in itself. Honestly, the show just looks like a moving painting, with every frame absolutely jaw-dropping gorgeous. Even without dialogue or characterization, it would be completely engrossing.

Luckily, writers Michael Green and Amber Noizumi are as interested in the people at the center of these crazy fights as they are in the many improbable techniques Mizu uses against her opponents. Mizu is presented throughout as both supernatural and deeply human. She can handle any odds, and come back from every injury that would cripple or kill a normal person. But the series never loses sight of what a life wholly devoted to revenge has cost her, and the ways in which she has turned herself into every bit the monster that her countrymen believe her to be.

It is then also the exploration of how Mizu interacts with the other characters in this world. There's the disabled would-be apprentice Ringo (played warmly by Masi Oka), who has learned to navigate life despite his lumbering size and lack of hands. Mizu has no interest in a sidekick, but Ringo gradually wears her down, as if he’s a peaceful stream flowing against a rock over hundreds of years. There's also Taigen (Darren Barnett), a warrior chasing after Mizu to collect a debt of honour, yet due to this honour he ends up helping her as in his eyes only he has the right to kill her, no one else, so ends up attacking those that attempt to harm her. Brenda Song voices the princess Akemi, who is just as eager to escape the bonds of Edo society as Mizu is, but who uses very different methods to achieve that. We follow her journey through an intimate tour of the area brothels, which is where the aforementioned heaviness of nudity comes in. There is, in fact, a lot of naked flesh on display throughout the season. The series can be just as graphic in depicting sex as it is in violence, yet both avoid feeling gratuitous. And finally, there's Kenneth Branagh as this season's big bad Fowler, a despicable arms dealer who has no sense of morality or empathy and is willing to destroy anything standing in his path. He's a massive presence and seemingly the only one able to hold himself in a fight against Mizu, hence why Branagh's British snark yet heavy tone fits perfectly here.

The whole thing is an incredible, utterly badass example of how animation can be used to create worlds, characters, and adventure every bit as vivid as live-action if not more at times. Even though I would say there are a few areas of pacing issues, which withheld me from binging this season all in one go and instead had me taking regular break intervals throughout, this is still a stellar show and one that you can tell was created by a team of passionate filmmakers and artists. Blue Eye Samurai would never have had the impact it did had it been live-action - using animation as its storytelling medium elevated it to a masterpiece in my opinion. Kudos to everyone involved in such an amazing project and I can’t WAIT to see more!

Overall score: 8/10

[emiliosandozsequence]

the borgias (2011-2013) cr. neil jordan / the last days of judas iscariot, stephen adly guirgis / kings (2009) cr. michael green

[theforswornelite]

People, I'd like to propose a DOUBLE FEATURE

[moviesframes]

A Haunting in Venice (2023)

Directed by Kenneth Branagh

Cinematography by Haris Zambarloukos

[ifthesewings--couldfly]

Gotta love disabled representation in Blue Eye Samurai.