{"id":202730,"date":"2014-07-07T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/07\/thedrawbridgethatismypants-tin-pan-ali\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T17:17:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T17:17:21","slug":"thedrawbridgethatismypants-tin-pan-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/07\/thedrawbridgethatismypants-tin-pan-ali\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-202730 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/07\/thedrawbridgethatismypants-tin-pan-ali\/attachment\/202731\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n68wmrEnBF1ss8ddko1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n68wmrEnBF1ss8ddko1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n68wmrEnBF1ss8ddko1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/07\/thedrawbridgethatismypants-tin-pan-ali\/attachment\/202732\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n68wmrEnBF1ss8ddko2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n68wmrEnBF1ss8ddko2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n68wmrEnBF1ss8ddko2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thedrawbridgethatismypants.tumblr.com\/post\/90399948584\/tin-pan-ali-blairtrabbit-les-autres-coups\" target=\"_blank\">thedrawbridgethatismypants<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tin-pan-ali.tumblr.com\/post\/87078175049\" target=\"_blank\">tin-pan-ali<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blairtrabbit.tumblr.com\/post\/87034445106\/les-autres-coups-parallels-for-what-i-have\" target=\"_blank\">blairtrabbit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/les-autres-coups.tumblr.com\/post\/87019412292\/parallels-for-what-i-have-no-fucking-clue-but\" target=\"_blank\">les-autres-coups<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>parallels. <br \/> for what, I have no fucking clue. <br \/> but saying \u201cparallels\u201d automatically makes any post sound 30% smarter<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been racking my brain on this for awhile and I think i might have a theory.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways Pacific Rim is about people. The decisions they make and how they interact with each other. I think that\u2019s why it has the fan following it does. We all empathize with the characters, they feel like real people. Its something missing from most big budget action flicks. They are people that have been hurt by war and some of them express it in ways we understand while others don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>It takes two people to drift. A pair, just like a pair of shoes. Without one shoe you are hobbled, impaired. You need two shoes working together to be a complete person and you need two pilots working together to have a complete Jaeger. When Mako loses her family (and her shoe) as a little girl she becomes half a person. she leads a full life but its tainted by her obsession with revenge. She\u2019s one shoe. The other shoe is Raleigh hes lost his other half and he\u2019s broken, disgraced and gone into hiding. Hes also obsessed but by despair instead of revenge. When Pentecost gives Mako her shoe back she finally has permission to find her other half. She does and with his help they both find peace as a pair of Jaeger pilots.<\/p>\n<p>So really the shoe is two things.<em> Obsession and Partnership.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With Hannibal\u2019s shoe you start out with the idea of obsession. Which is something Newt struggles with. He and Hannibal both have that in common but Hannibal\u2019s obsession has corrupted him while Newt\u2019s is scattered and hes ultimately trying to be a force for good. Under the right circumstances I could see Newt easily go that Hannibal direction. Which is kinda what I took away when he lifts up that shoe (after Hannibal is consumed by his own obsession in the form of the baby kaiju) and looks at it. Luckily there\u2019s partnership. That\u2019s where Hermann comes in. (interestingly enough in the cut scene where Hermann is holding Newt after his solo drift he is losing his shoe which shows that same idea of shoes\/partnership.) Hermann\u2019s big old floppy dirty oxfords are the opposite of the jingly shiny Hannibal shoe. He prevents Newt from going down that road by being his other half. Just like Raleigh is to Mako.<\/p>\n<p>Again, the same two ideas. Obsession and Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>So they are all literally Solemates. (haha)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If I could add my own thoughts to some really gorgeous meta? :U<\/p>\n<p>I recall Guillermo talking about colors, and how everything about Mako in this scene is blue, it\u2019s all blues and cool tones- and then the shoe is red.<\/p>\n<p>He likened the shoe to Mako\u2019s heart. A child, clutching the broken remnants of her heart, the thing she desires most- her family, her childhood, in the palm of her hands, in the moment it has all been taken away from her. That comes back as very important later, when Stacker gives her back that tiny red shoe. Gives her her heart back, finally allows himself to trust her so that she can go after what she wants- justice for her childhood and all the things they\u2019ve lost in this war.<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s something very similar there, that image of Newt with Hannibal\u2019s shoe is that moment after Newt has really been disillusioned about the Kaiju. They aren\u2019t what he thought they were. He\u2019s lost every idea he ever had about how awesome and cool the Kaiju are, that feeling of glory is gone. Color is so damn telling in everything Del Toro has ever directed, and what is gold? Fame, glory, heroics, everything Newt wanted, in the moment it\u2019s been taken away from him.<\/p>\n<p>Two very distinct moments of loss.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mR5xlsUuyfoWgNVif7cY2zQ\" target=\"_blank\">rachartrek<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thedrawbridgethatismypants: tin-pan-ali: blairtrabbit: les-autres-coups: parallels. for what, I have no fucking clue. but saying \u201cparallels\u201d automatically makes any post sound 30% smarter I have been racking my brain on this for awhile and I think i might have a theory. In many ways Pacific Rim is about people. The decisions they make and how they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/07\/thedrawbridgethatismypants-tin-pan-ali\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202733,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202730\/revisions\/202733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}