#Don Kennedy

[muttonchopsalley]

Tragic news.. Happened last month.. R.I.P. Don.

@clyde49

[bear-vi]

Give us a push, Sancho!

[wisecrackingeric-2]

Redraw of ‘Don Quixote and Windmill’ (1996)

((Click for better quality!!))

[katabay]

taking a little break from pest control

[crispy-dib]

I finally got to play re4r yesterday. This is my FAVORITE screenshot I took.

The Quixote parallels fucking start at this farm. Serennedy truly is a modern quixotic love story.

(Obligatory @wisecrackingeric-2 tag bc I actually have so many more thoughts now that I’m behind the controller. Oml.)

[residentfurry]

serennedy pride week! day 3: don quixote

the brave knight and his trusty squire!

[past31bvnn]

scene from venom(LTBC) where eddie tells venom about don quixote and sancho panza. very cool reference because eddie uses it as a metaphor for he and venom who are very much queer coded. meaning it was quite purposeful to use don and sancho here as they are are also queer coded in arguably every iteration.

anyways..we were all waiting for me to say it, but. the roles of don quixote and sancho panza are very often used to represent queer men. very cool..given that these characters are directly projected onto luis and leon in re4r

[trans-luis-serra-navarro]

Knowing me I’m gonna absolutely make this into a longer post but like. Isn’t it just SOOOOOOOO SILLY AND SO GOOFY that Luis bestowed the role of Sancho Panza onto Leon even though they’d only JUST met

Like,,,, Don Quixote isn’t just a book Luis loves a lot- he bases his ENTIRE MORALITY on his own ideas of what Don Quixote means and what the messages behind it are. He SURROUNDS himself with chivalric ideals and so, obviously, he holds that book and it’s characters VERY near and dear to him- hell, he doesn’t even let Ada or Ashley in on just how much this damn book means to him!!!!!!! The other scientists who he worked with during his time with Los Illuminados also called him Don Quixote, but realistically, how much would they have known of Luis’ deep-seeded love for that novel??????

So like. Clearly. There is NO WAY IN HELL Luis doesn’t understand the impact of Alonso (Don Quixote himself) and Sancho’s relationship. He ABSOLUTELY understands the importance of it and how vital to the tale each other are and how intrinsically intertwined they are in each others lives and how one would quite literally have not survived without the other and how they’ve gone through hell and back for each other (in Alonso’s eyes LITERALLY) and how Sancho was there for him when his illusions of fantasy finally faded away

So. Like. Luis picking Leon to call his Sancho HAD to be purposeful right????????

He HAD to have understood the weight of his words and the weight of his decision. Maybe Leon didn’t quite understand at first but Luis????? Luis knew DAMN WELL that Don Quixote and Sancho Panza’s relationship went further than two people who just happen to be on the same adventure. Luis picking LEON to be his Sancho was PURPOSEFUL.

He’s not just any old chum he happens to he stuck with; Leon is a man who fully encompasses EVERYTHING GOOD Luis believes in in the world. Leon is EVERYTHING his chivalric ideals want him to be. He’s an inherently kind and caring and selfless human being and he’s everything Luis wants to see in himself. He saved him from certain death and now they’re connected more by just the circumstances of their situation- they’d go through hell and back for each other and they HAVE. He wants Leon not just to like him but to LOVE him. Because Leon sees past his actions; he sees past his mistakes and up until now, nobody has ever given him that privilege. Just like how Sancho still believed in Alonso and still believed that there was worth in his fantastical delusions.

So how does Luis express this gratitude without just straight up saying ‘I love you’????

By using language he understands and is comfortable using, of course.

By projecting a story that has meant SO MUCH to him onto the both of them.

And GOD. THATS SO POIGNANT TO ME. HES TELLING LEON HE LOVES HIM IN A WAY HES BEST AT AND MOST COMFORTABLE DOING. HES SAYING ‘I LOVE YOU’ IN ALL OF HIS ACTIONS AND PROJECTIONS. WHICH MEANS MORE THAN THOSE THREE WORDS EVER COULD. HES USING HIS OWN LOVE FOR THAT BOOK TO PROJECT HIS LOVE ONTO THE PEOPLE HE CARES ABT GODDAMNIT‼️‼️‼️

(ALSO SIDENOTE THIS DOESNT JUST APPLY TO LEON!!!!! THIS APPLIES TO ASHLEY AND ADA TOO!!!!!!!!!!! HE PROJECTS THIS SAME LAMGUAGE ONTO THEM AS WELL, JUST NOT TO THEIR FACES!!!!!!!!!! HE SHOWS THEM KINDNESS AND LOVE IN HIS ACTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!)

And I think on some level Leon knows this too. He probably hasn’t analysed Don Quixote from every angle possible like Luis has, but he knows- in those final actions, when he takes up the mantle of his Sancho and confirms to Luis that, yes, he WAS a fine knight, he WAS his Don Quixote- I think he knew exactly what Luis had been trying to say to him this whole time. Just…. Using words that best describes it in his own way.

[majortomwaits]

Mac (Graham Kennedy) and Jody (Veronica Lang) dancing in Don's Party (1976) dir. Bruce Beresford for @grahamkennedy

[hamartia-grander]

I’m sad that Luis still dies because it feels like they gave us so much new stuff about his character that’s kinda wasted (though this adds to the tragedy of it I suppose) but having his death be considered an honourable one and hearing Leon tell him “You were a fine knight, Don Quixote” just breaks my heart in a good way, I’m so happy they made Luis a legitimate character that we can care about and root for and that Leon caring about him feels genuine this time.

[grimbunnies]

Dustin: Well... at least she's alive, I guess.

[hellyeahgeorgekennedy]

George Kennedy and Joe Don Baker in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

"The studio wanted someone menacing. What I was looking for was a big lovable bear because I felt he had to be big enough to boss the likes of Paul Newman, but I wanted to make him lovable. George was perfect."

-- Stuart Rosenberg, Director of Cool Hand Luke

[wisecrackingeric-2]

Adios, Don Quixote….

I don’t usually ask of this when I post my stuff, but if you could just take a moment to listen/look at all the details/reblog this post it would mean the world to me- I spent a long time on this and I’m very proud of how it turned out :)

You truly were a fine knight, Don Quixote

[grahamkennedy]

Blorbo enjoyers! Think of your main blorbo, your big fave right now. Do you think the actor who plays them contributes to them becoming your blorbo? I don't mean like, "oh I've always been a fan of said actor, that's why character is blorbo", though that's valid too. I mean, could you easily imagine them played by someone else, or do you think that that specific actor understands the character best? This goes for both live action and voice acting.

[crispy-dib]

A custom bookmark for a certain book of mine…

Im wearing shorts dw lol

[ladytrollutena]

Leon Scott Kennedy and Luis Serra Navarro - Resident Evil 4 (2023)