Bittersweetness

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Part of me being a weird kid. Not only did I watch Hammond Spider-Man, at the time of the release of The Dark Knight with Chrisitan Bale and Heath Ledger, I was head over heels for Adam West… When I saw Affleck being an absolute force of nature, I said to myself… he’s cool but he’s not West. Even when I saw Pattinson, my personal favorite (live action) Batman-film, I said… Damn, it was almost as good as West.

Alright, kidding. I don’t remember ever comparing Affleck to West but West was my first love and my only love. My idea, understanding of the character and interest in Batman all grew out of watching Adam West and Burt Ward gliding down poles, running around with bombs and decode the most complicated of riddles, all while still informing the importance of good grammar.

Miss you, West.

Oops, forgot to upload yesterday.

So me and my sister saw Ladybug and Cat Noir: the MOVIE a few weeks ago, and because I have planned uploads up to next Valentine’s Day, this was the first best opening I could squeeze in an Awakening-thing.

So… I’m not a big musical-fan. Well, I like High School Musical but that’s it. Well, musicals feel like they pause the plot for the characters to sing out the plot but I did kind of like this one and Reaching Out was absolutely my favorite song. Lord, I can’t explain how hard “Is it enough to just be me” hit me.

But short movie-review, see how much I remember… I liked it. It wasn’t perfect, the fact it was a musical didn’t land for me. Marinette’s voice, everyone has already complained about it so I will move on.. I liked the characters a little more here. I liked a Marinette without the creepy obsession, I liked a broody lonely Adrien. Gabriel… I feel like he could have needed another design in the end cause I wasn’t really sure what exactly akumatizing himself meant… he just made the water into lava and I was supposed to accept I guess.. would have loved the S5-design but I know I’m alone in liking that design so… where was Nathalie? She was just there, I don’t remember if she knew or if she just was an assistant this time?

Idk, I should have written this while my memories were fresh, 7/10. Might rewatch. Wasn’t sure about the love-story, at least here it moved faster but didn’t feel it had much ground. At least in the show, it’s this apologetic sweet moment in the rain between Marinette and Adrien and it’s Cat seeing how cool and badass Ladybug is but here it’s just the two of them helping the other from the ground. But… they’re also both like 14 so maybe they don't need more.

So. Earlier this year we lost James Earl Jones who in his long career was probably most known as the voice of Mufasa as well as Darth Vader.

As I was busy with my Marvel 85 Anniversary, I took a day and stressed out a tribute to him as well as to Sebastian Shaw and David Prowse but now with actual time on my hand, I wanted to draw my favourite Vader-scene and what he gave to this character.

My favourite scene is the small hallway scene from Ep. 6 where Luke retreats to Vader. It’s the same character from the previous films, the same suit, same voice and all but none of that fear that came along. It’s no longer the monster slaughtering in hunt of the Death Star-plans, choking left and right over the smallest errors. It’s not the man who cut the hand of his own son in rage. It’s a father talking to his son.

It’s Anakin Skywalker, a master engineer admiring his son’s work on his lightsaber. It’s Anakin warning Luke of the dark side. Same mask, same voice, now portrayed as a slave more than a fist. It’s Anakin thinking back on Obi-Wan and the mistakes of his life and the prison he put himself in.

It’s Anakin saying it’s too late, son.

Well, a lot is of course the passivity of David Prowse’s performance and Mark Hamill leading the conversation but James Earl Jones gave the final push to make Vader more man than machine in his final hour of privacy, before the two entered the Death Star.

This moment between the two is important to strengthen Luke to yell out to his father in pain, to Vader to finally turn after all this time and for them to get a moment to say goodbye and Luke to attend his father’s funeral in the midst of a celebrating galaxy. Without this, Luke would probably still have hope, but now he has evidence of the light side in him.

Or I’m just overthinking. But damn, James Earl Jones was brilliant as Darth Vader and the AI hasn't been close to replicating what he gave to this character.

New Year Resolution: More Newt

May the 4th be with you!

Was out of ideas and my sister wanted to see some Wanda