Death's expression on the first panel just makes my day. I'm in love with the way he smiles endearingly and with a bunch of hearts over his head. He's just a precious lil bean.
literally my first thought after seeing this part of that tiktok video is why do you look so smitten like you wanna smooch him so bad hmm? and then you dance sluttily in front of him? whore
So I found this video. It's just Joel Crawford (Director) and Januel Mercado (Co-director) discussing and showing the deleted scenes of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
Looking at the deleted scenes and reading some of the comments. I wholeheartedly agree that some of these scenes would've made the movie cringey or even downright bad. There are some I liked, but most of them I didn't. I am so glad that they didn't settle for half-baked jokes, bad character depiction and most of all, the seemingly forced relationship between Puss and Kitty. I'm not saying their ideas were bad, instead I praise them. I praise them for not being Disney.
So anyway, I wanna point out something here. I am incredibly grateful, that the final product that we, the viewers, got is the result of multiple revisions and changes that resulted for the better.
I used to think that PiB:TLW was a miracle movie. A one-off event that happens every 10 years or so. But I guess I was proven wrong by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado. The video really showed that it wasn't a miracle, it showed that it's just the result of creative minds and collaboration. It shows that this is the result of a project that took 10 years to make. You can really feel the blood and sweat within it.
I truly admire their sense of passion, not just towards the director, but to everyone who participated in the project, who gave it their all and make it the best it can be. The actors, writers, screen writers, FX and the music team, everyone. They didn't leave any stone unturned and didn't settle for "Good enough", just like the Japanese saying "Kaizen" or "continuous improvement".
Anyway. All I'm saying is that Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, and everyone who worked on it, deserves every praise. They worked hard on it and they gave us something so good that it's almost a miracle.
Death the wolf would straight be an awesome but also brutal character if he was interpreted in the same way Puss In Boots The Last Wish did. A large, anthropomorphic wolf with sickles and comes to any mortal who either pisses him off or those who are about to die.
I can definitely see an R rated medieval/fantasy/magic movie with Death absolutely and brutally murdering people for the action scenes.
I'd legit stay up all night to hear Death's stories, despite most of them being overtly creepy and graphic. Ngl, it just keeps interesting with that kind of content.
So i decided to elaborate on that death asmr idea.....maybe make him tell some..."bedtime stories"? But with a death kind of catch
Like "bluebeard" seems like the kind of story he'd tell....
(Also not helping that he probably was there and saw the whole thing, smack dab in the front seat)
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish may be one of, if not, the best movie in the past decade that truly shows what proper character development actually goes.
While I do love the voice acting of Antonio Banderas giving a near authentic yell of desperation and fear.
The thing I love the most about this scene is that Puss is so determined to get his wish out of fear. He's completely lost all composure and is thinking and speaking irrationally. The famed "Fearless Hero" is trembling out of fear.
Especially this scene here where he struggles why he needs the wish.
He's so afraid and desperate to get the wish that his reasoning to have it was to continue being "The Legend", completely removing Kitty and everyone else out of the picture.
Like I previously mentioned, he lost all composure, he's trembling, stuttering, being irrational, and most of all afraid. It's the complete opposite of what he was in the beginning. The notion of only having one life has changed him dramatically.
It's only later on when he faces Death and realizes that he's no longer fighting to continue his legacy. He's now fighting for his one and only remaining life. To live life to the fullest.
Armed with courage and bravery. He no longer shows fear, instead he faces Death like the way he faced bigger foes before, like the Fearless Hero we know we love.
Before: "I don't want to die."
Now: "I want to live."
"The fear of Death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
- Mark Twain
This movie is a masterclass of writing character development and I'm loving every second of it!
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish may be one of, if not, the best movie in the past decade that truly shows what proper character development actually goes.
While I do love the voice acting of Antonio Banderas giving a near authentic yell of desperation and fear.
The thing I love the most about this scene is that Puss is so determined to get his wish out of fear. He's completely lost all composure and is thinking and speaking irrationally. The famed "Fearless Hero" is trembling out of fear.
Especially this scene here where he struggles why he needs the wish.
He's so afraid and desperate to get the wish that his reasoning to have it was to continue being "The Legend", completely removing Kitty and everyone else out of the picture.
Like I previously mentioned, he lost all composure, he's trembling, stuttering, being irrational, and most of all afraid. It's the complete opposite of what he was in the beginning. The notion of only having one life has changed him dramatically.
It's only later on when he faces Death and realizes that he's no longer fighting to continue his legacy. He's now fighting for his one and only remaining life. To live life to the fullest.
Armed with courage and bravery. He no longer shows fear, instead he faces Death like the way he faced bigger foes before, like the Fearless Hero we know we love.
Before: "I don't want to die."
Now: "I want to live."
"The fear of Death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
- Mark Twain
This movie is a masterclass of writing character development and I'm loving every second of it!