jackthevulture:guardianofscrewingup:unstable-components:mooneymannyinthesky:fallenpitch:{Oh fuck tha
jackthevulture:guardianofscrewingup:unstable-components:mooneymannyinthesky:fallenpitch:{Oh fuck that fucking look. Okay.A little pissed? That doesn’t even cover the range of emotion here.First off, the way he stops dead in his tracks, with that dead look in his eyes. Maybe he’s had these same thoughts before. “I’m just a trickster. I don’t really do anything for the world. I have no place in it. Nobody needs me.” Who knows how many times he struggled with his own purpose. 300 years is a long time for self-analyzation.And then that eye roll. My guess is that it’s not the first time Bunny’s described him this way. The way he turns back after this and snaps back at the other; he’s struck a nerve, but it doesn’t feel like a new argument. They obviously have history together, in one way or another, so maybe this has come up more than a few times.Or maybe, just maybe, Jack’s not hearing Bunny in this scene. He’s hearing himself, having this argument time and time again, just wanting to feel cared about, like he belongs, but having no way to prove it to himself. He looks tired here, like he doesn’t want to have this argument again, but he can’t help himself. Because if he gives up, if he stops fighting, then he really has no purpose or reason to be alive}That tired and defeated look in his eyes at the beginning kills me every timeAnd then seeing just how quick he is to hide all of that when he turns around to make the smart-ass comeback that everyone is expecting from him, especially Bunny (at least i think that). He doesn’t want them to see him weak, to let them know just how much that one comment hurt him. He doesn’t trust them enough to show them that part of who he is yet. I mean, they left him all on his own for 300 years, and they all knew about him. That was made clear several times throughout the film. It is so sad to see that moment in his eyes and on his face when he seems just about ready to simply fly out of there and not look back.((I still maintain that the hugest mark of the characters is his resilience, more than any other facet of his character. Psychologically-speaking, very few people would’ve have survived the isolation he suffered sane and intact. While he likely was a little better off because he had a whole world to explore and a lot of stimulation (and the occasional other spirit to talk to) the fact that he hadn’t seen even Bunny since ‘68 definitely says something about how often he socialized with others of his kind, so he likely spent years at a time without talking to anyone. The fact that he could get stimulation still because he was free to fly around and explore, and interact indirectly is probably the only reason he’s not psychotic. There are studies that have been done, and in isolation experiments or observed situations in high security supermax prisons, people have started hallucinating after just days of being alone. Mind, this is stuck in boring cells with next-to-no stimulation, but days. Days. And some prisoners in isolation have gone so crazy they did things like eat razors or try to bash their heads against walls or commit suicide. The only element he had that was different was the ability to find stimulation in the world at large, but they think a large aspect of isolation hurting people is the lack of social connection. Which is why I often have issues with how he’s sometimes shown as easy to convince to go over to the dark side, or weak-willed and unprincipled. Jack is ridiculously strong in character, from having been a teenage boy basically willing to die to save his sister (the ice was cracking under him as well) which is a terrifying prospect even for people who have lived full lives, to being someone that suffered a fate that would drive the average person crazy. He’s strong-willed, stubborn, compassionate, and principled. It’s not impossible that he’d be coerced or convinced to do bad things but I think the stories that have him psychologically broken-down first, or AUs, or stories where he’s corrupted by an outward source like Pitch’s shadows make more sense than him just having his mind changed into doing things he finds morally dubious. Because if he could handle 300 years alone, feeling like he had no place, feeling worthless, feeling like he’d never find a reason for his existence, and still argue to the contrary - even when he was so, so tired of fighting with himself over the same subject - then he’s a little too strong to be easily coerced into hurting people. Or into doing anything he doesn’t really want to do, for that matter. Jack didn’t just fight physical enemies or what other people thought of him, he had to fight his own aimless, lost, and - not self-hating, but maybe self-disliking? (“I make a mess of everything”) - impression of himself. And he won. He was strong enough to fight himself and win.I always find this bit sad, but I also find it incredibly heartening. Even as tired as he obviously is of fighting a dislike of himself, he still turns around and argues the point. He argues that he’s good at bringing joy to kids, he’s good at something (a thing that’s important to him.) It’s a great example for kids to follow whenever they’re feeling down on themselves, that they still try to do good in the world and try to be proud of it, even if other people - or their own self-doubts - are trying to tear them down.)) Can we also take the time to appreciate that this is an animated character. Not an actor. A character whose every move was planned, deliberate, not just a person acting in the heat of the moment and being in character. People thought about this, Jacks facial expressions are so realistic I think people forget hes a model with tons of rigging and animators who set up these expressions. What makes them SO damn realistic is the speed at which they change and communicate. The fact that they showed us that many thoughts passing behind those eyes is damn IMPRESSIVE, ok? Little things like this that are REALLY telling and most people don’t even notice unless its gifed for them, the whole movie is FILLED with moments like these for Jack. Jack is TOO damn real, to the point where we forget he isn’t. So often animated characters have really stock expressions that just get across the emotion in one or two words, Jacks pass so fast that you NEED paragraphs to explain it, like a real person. The amount of detail and realism put into this movie is astounding and I will never stop being pissed off that it didn’t do well because of things like THIS. -- source link