{"id":213390,"date":"2014-05-02T14:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/02\/quigonejinn-verysharpteeth-do-yall-know-how\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T23:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T23:02:58","slug":"quigonejinn-verysharpteeth-do-yall-know-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/02\/quigonejinn-verysharpteeth-do-yall-know-how\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-213390 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\/05\/02\/quigonejinn-verysharpteeth-do-yall-know-how\/attachment\/213391\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_mrpwej8BPn1qdebjzo6_250-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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\/><\/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\/05\/02\/quigonejinn-verysharpteeth-do-yall-know-how\/attachment\/213400\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_mrpwej8BPn1qdebjzo8_250-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/quigonejinn.tumblr.com\/post\/69896938656\/verysharpteeth-do-yall-know-how-striking-this\" target=\"_blank\">quigonejinn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/verysharpteeth.tumblr.com\/post\/58613579792\/do-yall-know-how-striking-this-scene-in-an-action\" target=\"_blank\">verysharpteeth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Do y\u2019all know how striking this scene in an action movie was to me? Main lead, who is young and gorgeous and the whitest of whites, oversteps his bounds. He touches a commanding officer. In any other action movie the dressing down would not be this severe (Elba\u2019s adlibbing on this is terrifying\u2026forget kaijus, Raleigh looks more scared by him than anything that crawls out of the breach and half the audience squirmed in chastened sympathy because WOW). And the thing is, Raleigh is right. His initial argument that Stacker is holding back Mako is for all intents and purposes, the correct assessment. He\u2019s RIGHT. But he isn\u2019t in a position to tell that to a commanding officer, especially the way he does. So Stacker puts him back in his place. Raleigh KNOWS he went out of line the minute he touched Stacker and rather than argue or shout \u201cyou know I\u2019m right\u201d or storm off or IGNORE a commanding officer like any other action movie would have the hero do, Raleigh backs down. Stacker doesn\u2019t even let him get away with just the nod and choked back frustration, he makes him VERBALLY back down as well. There is no question who is in charge here. Raleigh is obviously angry and frustrated and still riding the testosterone high of kicking Chuck\u2019s face, but he FREAKIN\u2019 BACKS DOWN LIKE ANYONE WITH SENSE IN THE MILITARY WOULD. It\u2019s always baffled me that main rodeo cowboy hero of every movie can just walk all over rank and command and not pay for it because he\u2019s \u201cspecial\u201d. Raleigh only sort of does this once (and remember, his argument is valid) and he\u2019s immediately reminded that\u2019s not what he\u2019s there for. And he KNOWS because he never complains about it, never goes off and stews about how unfair Stacker is, never holds it against Stacker later. He knows he crossed a line and he belly crawls back across it because it\u2019s all about respect and he overstepped.This is something 9 out of 10 action movies wouldn\u2019t address.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is carried through in really fucking interesting ways throughout the movie, actually. \u00a0You remember the scene where we get introduced to Stacker? \u00a0The Becket boys are joking with Tendo about his disaster of a love life, and it\u2019s cute and fun and casual and dude shenanigans \u2014 and then it gets announced that the Marshal is on deck. \u00a0The camera happens to be on Tendo, and you see him \u2014 you see on-fucking-screen how his shoulders straighten and he sits up and his tone of voice changes and goes professional. \u00a0And you see it again, too, in the post-double event scene where people are in a joyous, packed crowd around Mako and Raleigh \u2014 and then Stacks shows up at the door, and a path fucking parts for him like he is smoking-hot Moses in a double-breasted suit. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s presence, folks. \u00a0That\u2019s charisma, and even more than that, it\u2019s people respecting a natural fucking leader who has\u00a0<em>earned\u00a0<\/em>respect. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been pointed out that people disobey Stacker in PacRim all the fucking time. \u00a0You\u2019ll note that it\u2019s not something undertaken for shits and giggles, though. \u00a0Instead, it\u2019s because they\u2019ve made an evaluation in the field and disagree because they think it\u2019ll cost lives \u2014 each time, it\u2019s presented in a sympathetic light, and each time, the movie shows that their disobedience Does Not Get What The Disobedient Ones Want. Remember that Yancy and Raleigh disobey Stacker\u2019s order to stay back, and Yancy gets dead (and it\u2019s not clear that they actually manage to save the dudes on the ship). \u00a0Chuck and Herc disobey the order to stay back because they\u2019re trying to save the other Jaeger pilots, which they not only fail to do, but they get hit with an EMP pulse from the kaiju. \u00a0If Mako and Raleigh don\u2019t arrive when they do, both it would\u2019ve been a long, long fall into water for two Aussie pilots, and the world would have been well and truly fucked. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The movie underscores this with what I consider to be the goddamn climax of the whole thing. \u00a0I mean, what\u2019s the biggest command that Stacker gives? \u00a0Like, the single biggest one? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To me, it\u2019s gotta be when he tells Mako (Mako! Specifically!) during Pitfall that she can do this. She can finish it. \u00a0And Mako does it, even though it clearly fucking costs her not to try and go to Striker\u2019s aid, even though\u00a0<em>it isn\u2019t phrased as an order<\/em>. \u00a0Stacker knows he doesn\u2019t have to phrase it that way, because he knows that he has been Mako\u2019s fixed point since she was ten years old. \u00a0He knows that she knows what should happen. \u00a0And he knows that he is right. \u00a0And that Mako agrees, too, because again: fixed point for how many years now? \u00a0The command doesn\u2019t need to be verbalized as such. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t even need to be entirely articulated, because the Drift that Mako and Stacker share isn\u2019t a physical one inside a Jaeger with a Pons mechanism. \u00a0Instead, it exists because Stacker and Mako found each other in the wreckage of Tokyo. \u00a0Stacker raised Mako, and they share the same value system and the same way of looking at the world and the same fierce pride and devotion and willingness to lay down personal attachments to other lives if it means saving the motherfucking world. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s their Drift. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So Stacker tells Mako that she can make this sacrifice \u2014 his life, for the world. \u00a0It\u2019s a parallel to the situation that Yancy and Raleigh have to make in Alaska, with the fishermen versus the city of two million, and the one that Herc and Chuck have in Hong Kong, with the lives of their fellow Rangers versus one of the few great coastal cities left. \u00a0Yancy and Raleigh and Herc and Chuck choose to disobey, and each time, not only does it not get them what they want, but it\u2019s got shitty consequences.<\/p>\n<p>This time, instead of laying it down as an order, Stacker tells Mako that she can finish it. \u00a0She\u2019ll always be able to find in him in their particular version of the Drift. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And Mako obeys because she agrees with him. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And they save the world. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let me emphasize that: the world gets saved without further loss of life because <em>Mako and Raleigh follow Stacker\u2019s directive to Mako<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stacker fucking Pentecost, everyone. \u00a0This fucking movie, everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>quigonejinn: verysharpteeth: Do y\u2019all know how striking this scene in an action movie was to me? Main lead, who is young and gorgeous and the whitest of whites, oversteps his bounds. He touches a commanding officer. In any other action movie the dressing down would not be this severe (Elba\u2019s adlibbing on this is terrifying\u2026forget &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/02\/quigonejinn-verysharpteeth-do-yall-know-how\/\" 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":[40,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213390"}],"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=213390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213401,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213390\/revisions\/213401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}