#Film Tampere

[jontheblogcentric]

VIFF 2023 Review: Lynx Man (Ilveskuiskaaja)

Finnish hermit Hannu and his fascination with the endangered Eurasian lynx is the subject of the documentary Lynx Man. The documentary Lynx Man showcases a man who you’d first think to be an eccentric. Over time, you’ll see his work is less of a hobby and more of a mission. The film begins with an old Finnish man finding a dead Eurasian lynx near the street. He picks it up and takes it with…

[wavesinlowtide]

I wasn't very suspicious of Phee initially but he did say the bike wouldn't start, and literally like 15 minutes later the Masked Killer hops onto said bike and rides off to the horizon. Like,,,,

[yokyopeli]

Amira Khalifa as The Facility Receptionist in Dual (2022)

[phinnweb]

I've been asked for a showreel of my short films and other video works, so here's at least the first version. Full credits can be found from the video link.

[memoriescut]

thinking about pudding replaying someone's favourite memories as a way to ease them into passing away

[angstandhappiness]

Interesting

“It’s anecdotal, but I regularly see Frankenstein’s monster described as a warning against scientific hubris, an alarm about Tampering With Things That Should Be Left Alone™. This I think is quite wrong: I think it is a story about what happens when one fails the (still at the time of writing) radical enlightenment by failing to take social responsibility for one’s actions and interventions. If it’s a warning, it’s a warning about turning one’s back, out of cowardice, on what one creates, not about creating it in the first place.”

— China Mieville, interview with the Weird Fiction Review (via brotticelli)

[kompleksi-hq]

Kompleksi vs. Citizen Omega - Gothic Robots (2008)

Sister Longlegs Dances in the Disco - track 4 (A4 on vinyl).

Video info:

Original footage taken from Gothenstein of the Living Dead, directed & filmed by John Hartman. © Reel Groovy Films (USA), 2013. Music video version edited by pHinn.

Video can also be seen at Vimeo.

[elissamaat]

Rituaali sateenkaarelle Ritual for the Rainbow

Sami Sänpäkkilän lyhytelokuva Rituaali sateenkaarelle (2023) on tarina neljästä esiteinistä, jotka ovat ajautuneet kotiväkivallan seurauksena yhteiskunnan turvaverkkojen ulkopuolelle. Ariel, Rupi, Liisa ja Hemmo elättävät itsensä ammuskelemalla rottia autoromuttamolla ja keräämällä tyhjiä pulloja. Heillä ei ole roolimalleja tai esikuvia, ennen kuin he kohtaavat maalla asuvan wiccan, jonka luona toteutetut rituaalit opettavat heitä taistelemaan väkivaltaa ja patriarkaattia vastaan – maksua vastaan tietenkin. 

Karkkia koko rahalla! Värien taikaa!

Ohjaus, kuvaus, käsikirjoitus, musiikki: Sami Sänpäkkilä

Rooleissa: Emilia Yli-Pukka, Ilona Malte-Colliard, Seela Minder, Miisa Koivuaho-Sormunen, Ida Sofia Fleming 

Lavastaja, puvustaja: Anne-Mari Musturi

Valaisija: Sara Aaltio

Valoassistentti: Elise Peltola Äänisuunnittelu: Jaakko Niemelä

Catering: Pasi Salmi Sivurooleissa: Elissa Määttänen, Kalevi Suopursu ***

"Ritual for the Rainbow" is a story about four preteens who live outside of society's safety nets due to domestic violence. Ariel, Rupi, Liisa, and Hemmo make a living by shooting rats at a junkyard and collecting empty bottles. They lack role models and authority figures until they meet a Wiccan who organises rituals to teach them confidence and how to combat violence and patriarchy — for a fee, of course.

Candy for life! Magic in colour!

Director, Cinematographer, Writer, Music: Sami Sänpäkkilä

Starring: Emilia Yli-Pukka, Ilona Malte-Colliard, Seela Minder, Miisa Koivuaho-Sormunen, Ida Sofia Fleming 

Art Director: Anne-Mari Musturi

Gaffer: Sara Aaltio

Sound Design: Jaakko Niemelä

Lighting Technician: Elise PeltolaCatering: Pasi Salmi Co-starring: Elissa Määttänen, Kalevi Suopursu

[indiebirds]

Unmasking the Dark Side: Corruption in the Indian Film Industry

Unmasking the Dark Side: Corruption in the Indian Film Industry

Introduction: The Indian film industry, often referred to as Bollywood and Tollywood, has garnered international recognition for its vibrant storytelling, charismatic actors, and mesmerising song and dance sequences. However, behind the glitz and glamour lies a murky reality. Corruption, like an unwelcome guest, has found its way into the very heart of the Indian film industry, tarnishing its…

[heartfullofleeches]

fake pizza boy yan developed a concerning taste for seeing darling eating his cum after that first encounter and starts bringing a variety of menu items with “ranch dips” and “vanilla shakes”. plenty of visual material to keep the supply up for his next “delivery” and he is definitely not spiraling into crisis just because the only thing that gets him hard for his other shoots is the mental image of darling stuffed full of his—

(Slapping these two together since they have a similar premise)

Yan Adult Film Star Pizza Boy + Reader [18+]

[Masterbation, Food Play]

-

"Come on..... Come on....."

Twenty minutes till deadline. Since the beginning of his career he stuck to a strict schedule. A simple routine to get the ball rolling as he dipped his toes in the new venture. Now that he had so many eyes on him and his content, Brie was able to take more breaks in between filming, but at this point it had been almost two weeks since he posted anything at all.

He tried everything. His hands. Toys. Videos. Brie even thought about buying pills at one point, but gaining an erection wasn't the hard part of his situation. His viewers were into a lot of things - but if there was one thing that really got their wallets open for him it was when he painted the nearest surface to him with a heavy load of his release. His donations would be flooded with comments from his hands how they wished to be his desk or pillows - or for the opportunity to lick said object clean.

Kind of like how you licked your fingers clean on the day he first met you.

The brief flicker of your face in his mind made his aching length jump in his spit stained palm. The encounter he had with you was all that he could think about anymore. He was obssessed - The innocent confusion as you opened the front door, the genuine gratitude in your expression as you handed him some cash for all his troubles and the free meal. Brie would pay anything to see you sample his sauce again. The way your eyes lit up as the flavor registered on your tongue-

"Mmh....."

What he wouldn’t give to have those lips wrapped around him. If you liked what he gave you so much what better than to get it straight from the source, right? The slick sound of friction grows louder as his hand moves quicker - eyes scanning every corner of his room for more fuel for his fantasies. He wish he had kept the photos he found of you online on screen, but he feared loosing that knot of pleasure twisting at his insides if he took his focus off the task at hand for any reason.

His eyes fall on the drink cup from the takeout he picked up earlier in the day. A boring Styrofoam cup with no clear ties to any restaurant would be the perfect container to bring you another item off the menu. The peach tea he had earlier would be a dead giveaway for any tampering. He needed something thicker, ideally with a creamy texture.

A milkshake.

Who wouldn't enjoy a nice, refreshing shake after pizza? You surely had to be thirsty after eating all that bread. Brie fisted his cock to the image of you on your knees beneath his table - hands gripping the meat of his thighs as your mouth hung open awaiting your treat. You'd look so cute under him like that - his fans would absolutely love you-

A surge of jealousy strengths his grip. Nobody should get to see you like that but him. Those perverts could fotk over their life savings and it wouldn't be enough for Brie to share you with them. Maybe the occasional stream with the two of you couldn't hurt - your face held against his pelvis as he stuffed that pretty throat so nobody could see anything but his cock slipping past your perfect lips.

"Ah.... Y/n...." It's the first time he's said your name. The first time he's let his imagination run this wild. He makes a mental note to cut it out during editingthe. Brie swipes the camera off his desk, angling it better towards his lap and the empty floor below him. He then makes a grab for the empty cup - popping off its lid as he positions the container between his legs. They tremble - barely holding into the styrofoam without crushing it as Brie spits - whimpering as he coats his girth in another layer of his saliva. For a fleeting moment he can perfectly picturing the warmth dripping down his cock as your own - and that's all it takes for him to come undone.

Brie cries out your name with a shakey breath, clutching the edge of his desk for stability as his upper body lurches forward, pouring ropes upon ropes of his spend in the general direction of the cup. It's too much- With it being so long since the last time he came, this hard - tears stab at the corners of his eyes as he shutters, nails peeling chipping at the polished finish of his desk. He misses his intended target at first go, thighs glistening with cum as he hurriedly fixes the cup to catch the remainder.

Brie takes a long pause to catch his breath before wipping off his camera lense, posing with a shakey thumb up as he holds the cup for all to see.

"Shake's ready- Guess it's about time I make another delivery~"

-

"And here you are, one milkshake on the house. We're always trying out new things in the kitchen and like to reward our loyal customers by letting them sample new items first."

Swirling your straw through the thick slurry, you take another sip with a satisfied hum. "Hm. You said this was salted caramel, yeah?"

The delivery boy snaps back to attention - seemingly lost in thought as you gulp down the shake. "Y-yes. That's right- Your thoughts?"

"It's pretty damn good, actually. Been getting kinda hot these past couple of nights so this is just what I needed right about now."

Brie bites down hard on his bottom lip as you place the cool styrofoam against your bare neck, condensation running down to your chest.

"I forgot to ask the last time I can, but my boss finds it really helpful if I get some pictures of satisfied customers to put up. Would you mind if I took a couple of you right now?"

[nyyhkis]

:$

[kismetlotts]

Kinktober 🎃 day four: Somnophilia!

cw: somnophilia, mentions of drugs and being drugged, being recorded, noncon, pervert loser boyfriend Simon, mentions of rape, mentions of killing, breast play, 'good girl' use, fingering, oral sex, mentions of male masturbation, mentions of oral sex on male, mentions of creampie

You’d said no, and that was somewhat fair. He understood your reasonings- they made sense to him. What if someone went snooping through his things and found the photos? Watching their Lieutenant fuck his girlfriend stupid and images of her body- her wet mouth slobbering all over his fat cock. And what if some enemy came and tracked you down because of them, finding out about his secret lover and using you as leverage. Hurting you, threatening to kill you- raping you? He understood your worries, he didn’t want that happening either.

But did them reasonings stop him? No- of course it didn’t. You just didn’t understand the rage and desperation he was going through- days, weeks: fucking months, without the security of being deep in your tight little pussy. His rough hands cupping nothing but the air as he imagines you with him on his bunk. Tits dangling like diamantés on a chandelier, mesmerising him and wanting him to dive in. Suck, bite- fuck why weren’t you with him? And why the hell did you say no to him taking photos? He loved you, he really really did but he couldn’t thrive out there without something.

So he’d slip a little something into your tea, placing some biscuits on a plate beside the cup to not make it obvious. Your shifts at work sounded hard from the drama you’d gossiped to him, it drove him mad let alone you so he’d gotten into the habit of making you a cuppa before you got home. Walking in and sitting right down before taking a sip, flavour hitting your mouth and relaxing your body simultaneously- or so you thought it was flavour.

His hands would trace your body from behind, rubbing and massaging you slowly to calm you down; not missing your moan and whine as he continued, pressing your body up and into his palms. His jeans were already growing tighter at your noises, his face leant down to inhale the scent of your hair and perfume with a slight aroma of sweat but it only aroused him more. Such a good girl working hard, you deserved more than your shitty little underpaid job. You deserved the world.

His hands slowed their movements and before you could reach for a biscuit you were out cold. The drug overtaking and controlling your body as Simon carefully scooped you into his arms. Carrying you to the bedroom, placing you down on the bed and undressing you fast and hungry.

He was a perverted fucker, taking out his camera and snapping as many photos as he could- face painted with lust, unloyalty and shame. Squeezing your tits in his hand, videoing how your skin paled as he pulled his hand away, close ups of your pussy, your ass, your knocked out face because for some reason everything about you being unconscious was fucking hot. You couldn’t hold back and shy away, he had the access to every part of you and it was addictive. He felt high.

His finger would dive into the crack of your cunt, careful not to finger you so deep because he couldn’t have you feeling like you’d been tampered with- you’d suspect he’d done something to you for sure. He unbuckled his jeans, not being able to take to resist undressing himself, letting his length spring into the air and tap against your body. Your gorgeous skin glistening with wet drips of his precum.

He’d even video himself talking, all the things he’d do to you now that you were in front of him. How delicious you taste as he spun the camera around, filming himself sucking on the finger he’d been tracing your pussy with. It was loser behaviour- it was pathetic- he was acting like someone he would usually mock in a cringey porn video.

His cheeks were red and he knew he would feel embarrassed watching it back, skipping to your part, your body, and continuing tugging on his dick, but right now he didn’t care: he couldn’t care the pleasure he was gaining from this was sickening.

He kneeled down at the edge of the bed, knees hitting the cold floor as he shakily filmed his face devouring your pussy. The small open crack of his eyes giving away how bad his eyes were rolling back. His muffled moans and groans of satisfaction being captured and echoed around the room, he wanted your passed-out body on his dick, taking all of him as he guides you slowly like a toy. Up down, up down, before he fills your inside.

He’d take photos of your clit, his thumb tracing it in circles, wishing you were awake so he could hear your adorable whimpers and watch your legs twitch as jolt on the bed. You were usually so sensitive to his fingers, his good little girl that wouldn’t be able to contain herself from wriggling away from his touch, begging him to stop teasing you.

However you never won- he’d laugh but never stop, Simon always got his way.

He’d slip the camera back into his pocket after all his fun, bringing the bed covers up and over your shoulders as he flicked through the tv in front of your bed. Skipping past all the halloween horror movies and trying to find a relaxing quiet show to play for when you woke up. To distract you from the dizziness.

When you wake up he’d just tell you that you fell asleep in his arms, so tired and worn out from work you just nodded off, so soft and innocent he couldn't wake and tuck you in bed instead.

You’d never have to know about his secret little stash of photos, and now he finally had something to use and make himself cum to when he misses you. It wasn’t the nicest thing he’d done, he was kind of disturbed with his own actions but desperate times call for desperate measures.

[therandompagesblog]

SKZ Pack Chapter 23

Trigger Warnings: None

Chan snuck off during the film while Y/N was cuddled up to Jeongin and Felix.  Y/N noticed it despite Jeongin trying to distract her by pulling her into a kiss since Chan was not the slightest bit discreet. It was obvious he was up to something and Y/N wanted to know. She was nosy and the fact Christmas was tomorrow made everything more nerve-wracking for her. It felt different this year. More special. More familial. Chan returned and sat back down next to Jisung who was smirking. Y/N could feel their excitement and hated it, so she turned off the film. "Baby, why did you do that?" Changbin grumbled, completely oblivious to what was going on around him. "I wanna know what Chan is sneaking around for." Y/N accused. Chan smiled ecstatically. He was excited about what was to come.

Chan stood up and smiled. The wolves also sat up in excitement as they knew what was coming while Y/N knew something. "Y/N L/N. You have been out mate for almost seven months now and despite your obnoxious defying behaviour that we love so dearly. You are caring to our wolves. You take in their needs. You protect them even if it is a reckless decision. We all love you so much, which is why we are going to break traditions since it's normally a female alpha's role but it has been done with an omega." Chan said slowly as he watched her confused face. Y/N looked at the other wolves who nodded their head and pushed her forward to get up while Chan sat down cross-legged in front of her. His head was hanging low in submission. "I want you. We want you to become our Luna. Our Head Alpha. Our Omega-Alpha." Chan said as he got onto his knees, presenting a werewolf ring that he designed. "What?! I can't-" "You can. It has been done with omega wolf packs." Minho interrupted, giving her a smile. "We can all submit to you because you've marked us. Let us submit to you. Let us become fully yours." Jisung begged. "Just don't get too cocky baby," Seungmin said as he crawled onto the floor ready to submit.

The wolves were waiting for Chan to say the words and for her to agree. They were waiting for her to make the decision so they could be bound in a different way. This was something new for all of them, including Chan. This was a new era for them. They were re-writing the rules. They were not going to be a traditionalist set of werewolves anymore. They were changing. "I, Chan. The Head Alpha, swears obeisance to my mate Y/N L/N. From this day onwards we will become hers and she will become ours." Chan's voice was confident as he spoke the sacred words. "Chan!" Y/N hummed out. Her heart felt full as he spoke the words presenting her with the ring as he pushed his head down, staring at the floor in front of him. Both of them felt the chains tighten around them as the power started to work when she took the ring, and put it on her finger. She owned him fully.

Y/N looked up to see Hyunjin give her a nod before he spoke the words. He then bowed in submission to her and then Jeongin did. Minho followed after slightly next to, but behind Chan as he spoke the words, followed by Changbin, Jisung, Felix and then Seungmin. The power and the bond of the wolves came and hit Y/N. It took Y/N's breath away. She felt suffocated for a moment as she fell backwards slightly. She became their Queen at that moment. She became their Queen on Christmas Eve. She became their Head Alpha-Omega. She became their Luna. The energy and the connection made some of them cry as they felt incredibly close to her, as if they were having a religious experience. It felt sacred. Divine. It shouldn't be touched or tampered with. It felt like a sin at that moment to lift their heads up and take a look at her. She was everything they wanted and more.

Y/N took a moment, catching her breath as she looked at them. Heads low as they waited for her command to speak. "Ya don't do this to me. Look at me, all of you. I love you so much." Her voice was like heaven. If they were not in love with her sounds, they were in love with her now. "Oh, Channie." Y/N cooed as she looked at his sobbing face. They were all crying. "Channie, I love you and your wolves." Y/N cooed as she kissed all over his face. The wolves whined wanting to feel this newfound privilege of touching their Luna. "They're your wolves, Luna. All yours." Chan's voice was filled with submission. He wasn't ready to look at her yet while the others stared at her until it became sinful. "Christopher look at me. Now." Y/N demanded.

Her voice sent hot spasms through his veins and up his spine forcing him to look at her silver eyes. Oh her silver eyes were like crystals. They were rich. Her soft features glowed and her brown hair smelled utterly divine. She was a Luna now. Chan couldn't speak. The lump in his throat squeezed him forcing him to stay silent until she removed it. "Stop being silly and come here," Y/N said nervously. She didn't like this feeling. She wanted them all back to normal but it would take a while. They needed to get used to the idea of having a Luna. Having a Luna came with greater responsibilities. "Hmm." Chan hummed and crawled into her warm embrace. Her hands reached up to touch his mark, making him shudder. He felt like an omega. Powerless. They all did. They needed her to worship. "Chan kiss me," Y/N ordered, making the wolves whine in their position. They wanted to love and nurture their Luna. They wanted to care for her. Some of them took it more emotionally than the others. Felix and Jisung were sobbing messes. Seungmin was a whiny puppy who was gonna threaten disobedience but he didn't want to see his Luna disappointed on day one. "You want to touch me?" Y/N cooed as she held Chan while holding Hyunjin's hand. The wolves quickly nodded, wondering when they could.

Y/N got up and slowly started to slide out of her clothes. "How about I let you all take me." Y/N breathed out. This was something she was scared to do before but today she was ready to lay there, ready to submit to them. She would let them each fuck her until they were content and back to normal. "Nest. We nest first." Jeongin stressed as he pulled the pillows off the sofa, nudging at Minho who was tripping over to grab the blankets. The wolves went into a panic as they realised they were making a nest for their Luna. The wolves fretted and fussed while Chan made her sit in different positions to make sure she was comfortable. He wasn't risking his Luna satisfied on day one. "Channie." Y/N cooed, reaching up to his naked form. "Fuck me first. Until I'm pregnant with your child. Don't stop knotting until my body takes it." Chan's eyes widened as he pushed her down. His Luna wanted a pup. His Luna was going to get a pup.

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[kimberleyjean]

The Ineffable Detective Agency Presents: What Happened in Before the Beginning?

Hello Good Omens clue hunters and detectives! I’m super excited to share what we’ve discovered in Before the Beginning. Read on if you want to see what no one else has spotted yet!

To put a long story short, something is “up” about Good Omens - Season 2 in particular. While the eagle-eyed have documented a number of odd things in Season 2 already (summarised here), I’ve never seen anyone call into question what was presented during the Before the Beginning scene. Let’s take a closer look shall we?

Remember this scroll to start the nebula? Well, guess what - it changes!

Here’s the first scroll we see on screen, I’m going to call this the “new” scroll. Note the straight edges and completely pristine look, like brand new paper:

Then suddenly, here’s what it looks like as they start up the nebula:

Whoa, that’s looking pretty old and ragged! It’s got rips, a bit of discolouration, several wavy bends running through it. That’s a significantly more worn scroll than we were just shown. Let’s show that in close up just to be sure:

Yup, that’s certainly not meant to be the same scroll!

During this scene, the old scroll is seen again during the close up of Aziraphale holding it. However, once Crowley instructs him to put it down, it’s the new scroll again. (And then at this point it disappears into hammerspace like in a cartoon, or drifts off into space, never to be seen again).

So... there's TWO scrolls?

Well, yes, but also, no. If you're wondering, “Are they both real scrolls? Are you telling me they had two on set?” the short answer is no, this was done with VFX. To explain why we know this, I’m going to hand over to our resident Art Director, @noneorother:

Hi all, @noneorother here. Sure. So it's mostly to do with the shadow inside the scroll curls and under the right hand side curl. You can see when it's the real scroll that the shadows are all orange or brown, because of sub-surface scattering:

It happens when light partially passes through a thin porous object like skin or paper. So when the scroll is new, it's real. Where they've added "scroll is old now" VFX on top of the shots, it's very well tracked, but there's no more sub-surface scattering because it's VFX, not filmed. So the shadows are now base-black inside the curl and to the right hand side of the image. This is the VFX scroll here:

They already perfectly tracked the astronomy animation into the center of the scroll, so they had all that tracking info just sitting around. It wouldn't have been very expensive to add the "old scroll" the way they did it (the cheap and dirty way).

Thanks @noneorother! So there we have it folks, the Good Omens team have intentionally designed some shots with the old-looking VFX scroll and some without. They had the assets created for the old scroll and the tracking to place it correctly, so how could they possibly make the “mistake” of adding it sometimes but not others? This wasn’t a budget thing. If it were budget related, they wouldn’t have created the old scroll VFX in the first place.

Personally, I think this discontinuity was to tell us, the dedicated rewatchers, that what we initially saw in S2 was not the whole story. There is something else at play during S2. Something that, depending on what we find, may make S3 even more enjoyable.

So, why do this? Is this scene being conveyed from different perspectives? Are we viewing different characters’ memories of the same event? If so, why would that be important? Is someone tampering with past events? Did “Before the Beginning” happen multiple times and we’ve seen a spliced together version? What do you think?

One More Question...

The other question worth asking here (which Aziraphale helpfully asks for us) is “which way up” does the scroll go? Look closely at the central rings.

Is it the top version (small rings to the right)?

Or the lower version (small rings to the left)?

... and what happens if you create a nebula upside down, I wonder? Here I’m reminded of the Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square lyrics:

The moon that lingered over London Town Poor puzzled moon, he wore a frown How could he know we two were so in love The whole darn world seemed upside down

In a season where something is going "Down in the Up", and the answer to Gabriel’s mystery is achieved by turning the delivery box upside down, this is yet another up-down reversal we can add to the list!

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If you’ve been following our Good Omens posts up until now, you’ll be aware that this is not the only time scenes have been inconsistent or discontinuous. If this is new to you, please check out my summary post on Season 2 discontinuity here. For more of our posts, plus a collection of Clues and metas from all over the fandom, see here.

However, there is still more to come, so watch out for future updates. If you’re not currently puzzling over Good Omens and would like to join in, please do! We’d love to hear what you find - you can use the tag #ineffable mystery.

Special thanks to @noneorother, @embracing-the-ineffable, and to all the other lovely people at @ineffable-detective-agency (@theastrophysicistnextdoor, @ghstptats, @somehow-a-human, @lookingatacupoftea, @dunkthebiscuit @havemyheartaziraphale, @komorezuki, @251-dmr, @maufungi).

[phinnweb]

This is the project I’m currently working on. Premiere 18 July 2023 at Ykspihlaja Festival, Kokkola, Finland. VOD later on (details TBC).

Info:

Captain Aarne Juutilainen (1904-1976), nicknamed "the Terror of Morocco" after his stint in the French Foreign Legion, became the symbol of the Battle of Kollaa in Finnish Winter War of 1939-40. The sniper Simo Häyhä, “the White Death”, was one of Juutilainen’s men. A forthcoming documentary will be an account of Aarne Juutilainen life.

Tuotanto / Produced by: 

Pauli Poranen Production (Kokkola), The Kiljava Institute/Voionmaa Institute (Tampere), The Federation of Education in Central Ostrobothnia & Media Centre LIME (Kokkola) & pHinnWeb/Pispala Noir (Tampere).

Teasers available on YouTube (click “CC” for English subtitles):

Teaser 1

Teaser 2

Teaser 3

[murdercide626]

Regarding Gerald in Sonic 3

(SPOILERS!!)

I've been thinking about how Gerald Robotnik was depicted in the third Sonic movie, and I have some observations.

I'm sure some fans have been comparing Gerald as shown in the film versus the games and taken note of not only how much sillier he is in the movie, but also how he's depicted as being considerably more villainous.

There are a couple things to consider though. In the games (especially since Shadow Generations) the majority of what we see of Gerald is from before the tragedy on the ARK and losing Maria, and we only get brief bits of him after he lost his sanity.

However in the movie it's the exact opposite situation. Almost everything we see of Gerald in the film is after Maria's death and he's clearly lost his sanity. Not only that, but because Gerald in the film never got executed, he spent many decades in a prison cell, stewing in his despair and rage, becoming more and more bitter and deranged while also extending his lifespan to an unnatural length by dosing himself with chaos energy from Shadow's quill.

But you might say, "Gerald in the movie only saw Shadow as a tool and didn't love him." While there's evidence of that being true in the present day, there's little to suggest that's the case in the very brief bit we see of Gerald in the flashback he's shown in before Maria's death. I personally think Gerald did have a fondness for Shadow before the tragedy, likely through observing Maria's close friendship with him. When Gerald retrieves Maria and Shadow to flea the facility he refers to them both collectively as "children", meaning he possibly had a similar fondness for both of them. I think that after Maria's death though, Gerald's slipping sanity, disillusionment with humanity, and obsession with avenging Maria's death, probably made him lose sight of the love he once had for Shadow.

And there is even evidence of the same thing happening in the games, with Gerald treating Shadow as little more than a tool for his posthumous plan for genocidal vengeance, which would have ended with Shadow's death too. Gerald even tampered with Shadow's memories of Maria to ensure he'd carry out his plans.

There's also evidence in the games of Gerald having an ego similar to Eggman's, shown by him modeling the ARK to resemble his face. Gerald even sheepishly confessed in his journal he was being self indulgent when designing the ARK. So it would seem in the games Gerald does possess at least some of the negative traits shared with his grandson, though he's self aware of these flaws and tries to suppress them. Gerald in the movie however is at a point where he's way past caring, since he's already decided to destroy the earth and everyone on it, so he's just letting his freak flag fly. lol

So if Gerald hadn't been executed in the games, who knows how he might have turned out. Gerald being executed was probably a mercy, really...

And it should also be noted that Sega themselves even considered resurrecting Gerald as a villainous character in the early production of Shadow's solo game.

That actually brings me to another thing I was thinking about while watching the movie. In Sonic 3, they repeatedly emphasize how similar Eggman and Gerald are in appearance, quirks, skills, and even wearing near identical outfits at the end. Sonic even collectively refers to them both as "Eggmen".

This stood out to me because it reminded me of the Rush games where Eggman teamed up with Eggman Nega, a character that was near identical to Eggman, but having a greying mustache and a darker, more twisted personality.

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I've had a theory that the scrapped plot point of resurrecting Gerald as a villain is what led to the creation of the Eggman Nega character. So seeing Gerald as depicted in the movie was like seeing it all come full circle. lol

But anyway, yeah, this has been another stream of consciousness rant from me. Maybe you got something out of this, or maybe not. Oh well. lol

And just to make myself clear, I am NOT trying to argue that Gerald is a bad person in the games (at least before Maria died). If what I said came across like that, then I'm sorry, but that was definitely not my intention.