I always fall over heels for the intrepids like 7; I tend to stick to creative-driven characters like 6; and... surprise: I love the jerkass leader 1 because... Do you think I need excuses? Yes? No?
Old doodles circa 2020... well, not so old but still makes me feel old (did this during my years learning to paint my photo-scan doodles with a mobile phone app) but because I didn't have time to do proper new artwork for the anniversary of this dear movie (I try to do it every September) I thought why not share some of the art I have so far?
So, before this month closes I'll show some of my favs, yay!
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Graphite pencils, white coloured pencil and a bit of white ink on Clairefontaine toned paper (Paint On Denim), 20 × 40 cm.
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Thinking about how Moist's scams and cons are rooted in a cynical belief that those bastards would try to trick me if they could as well. That's his justification for his actions, other than just because he finds it thrilling. And he sees what he does as ultimately harmless - he doesn't kill or maim, slips in and out of lives without a trace - so he doesn't recognize that his actions have meaning until Mr Pump hits him with 2.338 statistical deaths, and doesn't accept it until he finds out Adora Belle was hurt by his scam.
He's wounded so many people. Sure there are the people he believes everyone to be, the ones he relies upon for his scams to work, who try to take advantage of him and are cheated in turn. But there are also desperate people, people who weren't directly involved like Adora Belle, maybe even people who against all odds still tried to be kind to a stranger and were punished for it. And he just isn't capable of realizing that maybe people are real for longer than he sees them for, that they have lives to live and worldviews that can be shredded with too many hurts. He can't accept that people are capable of more than cynical pragmatism, of don't hurt others because they might hurt me.
But all throughout Going Postal, that idea of his is disproven again and again. There's Stanley and Mr Groat, who eke out a little coexistence despite being forgotten, and the elderly postmasters who join him just because they loved their job; there's Adora Belle Dearheart, who was wounded and cheated in life from so many sides and still used that resentment to help marginalized people. Although his own perspective focuses more on who he is rather than a new understanding of who he was, and he rarely reflects on just how much his worldview changes from beginning to end (except when confronted by Adora Belle), he still goes from doing selfish things for selfish reasons to doing things that benefit everyone, especially those he cares about, for selfish reasons. He can still enjoy the exhilarating game of creating new personas and pushing his luck while believing a bit more that humans can be genuinely earnest people as well. And as he approaches that truth, he becomes invested in his life as well, because now he has to stick with it.
Going Postal's about redemption in many ways - the idea that atonement doesn't lie in fixing every mistake you've made, but in moving on and trying to prevent making them again, in recognizing your own crimes being done by others and working against them.
Isn't that at least a little hopeful? That, ultimately, the world isn't so cynical and bitter as you've based your entire life on? That it isn't so difficult to exist after all? It's a lot to take in, but so is any paradigm shift.
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*Clay starts leaning on Branch*
Clay: “Oh no! Gravity is increasing on me!”
Baby Branch: “No, it’s not!!”
Clay: “it is too Branch, the same thing happened yesterday.”
*Clay collapses onto Branch*
Baby Branch: “You rotten brother! Your butt is crushing me!”
Baby Branch: “Why do you act so weird?!”
*slams door on Clays head”
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