#canto vii analysis

[thyrinea]

One Hundred Years of Solitude in Canto VII

This is an analysis on how Don's canto, Canto VII, might have taken inspirations from another iconic book. If you haven't done all parts already, please do it first before reading because there are some spoilers under the cut.

I've also posted the same text on Reddit, if you see this analysis there, it's mine :)

As I was finishing Canto VII narrative, I noticed there were some similarities between the story seen from La Manchaland with another book: One Hundred Years of Solitude, written by the Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marqués.

If you guys haven't read it, The book is about the creation of a city called Macondo, and how it's founder's family — the Buendía family — is stuck in a perpetual cycle of misery for generations until the city itself colapses into ruins.

Going into details, what drawn me to create this post is how similar Don Quixote (the original) is to José Arcadio Buendía, the founder of Macondo.

In the beginning of the book, he decided to leave his hometown with his wife due to conflict between them and the people living there, and spend some time with no place for themselves. One day, while camping near a riverbank, José Arcadio dreams of "Macondo", an utopic city that reflected the world and upon awakening, he decides to build what he had seen on his dreams, and establish Macondo there near the rivers.

The city was pretty isolated, and only had some contact with outside worlds once a year, when a band of gypsies visits the town show the townspeople scientific discoveries such as magnet. José Arcadio soon becomes obsessed with all the inventions outsiders showed to him and it concerned his family so much to the point of deciding to tie him to a chestnut tree for many years until his inevitable death.

From the dream of creating a city designed to give happiness to his family, to their destined ending, both character seems to have a lot in common. We can even check out the location of La Manchaland having rivers just like Macondo city.

There might be much more, such as the massacre that happened when a village was built near the city in the book being some sort of parallel to the incident that happened in La Manchaland. But I need to reread the book to get the details straight.

But it's interesting to have this book as second source of material for inspiration, since it's main theme is the inescapable repetition of history. Just like a merry-go-round both Macondo city and Sancho has been stuck in a loop and they needed a cataclyst to finally bring this horrible cycle to end.

[nmoroder]

Canto VII is awesome. No spoilers, no analysis, i simply liked the story and its characters and the final boss was quicker (and more interesting) to defeat than Erlking+Cathy, so it's a win for me. My head hurts tho cuz i finished part 3 in one sitting (don't do that if ur struggling go take a break)

[korroshiame]

Spoilers for Canto VII (Don Canto) Part 1 Ahead!!

One of my favorite things about Canto VII so far is how the bloodfiends are so fucking crazy and stylish in LaManchaLand.

But it makes a lot of sense. Like, you have time to kill I’m sorry Time Ripper but they will just heal off of you and you have literal centuries to spend time doing pretty costumes and shit.

But things get repetitive over time, and unless you have Don’s patience to yap for literal millennia, you too would go insane pretty quick.

Exhibit A: Cassetti, or as he is now known as, ruined casserole.

I was going to ask why The Barber had little time to prepare, but she must be a university student and La Mancha Land was her side gig fucking capitalism

And then the electro swing plays.

And I actually find that part really fascinating, because it’s a combination of an old music genre and a new music genre, Swing and Electronic music.

The Swing emphasizes the chaotic and flamboyant nature of LaManchaLand, almost celebratory in a bloodbath sense. That, and it represents how old the bloodfiends are. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if a Bloodfiend invented Swing in the City in the first place.

The Electronic music, however, emphasizes on the modern nature of the bloodfiends and the urban nature of the city. Urban vampires dancing to a modern remix of old songs, which contrasts well with P Corp’s futuristic style and how LaManchaLand is more garish and gaudy in comparison to inside the nest.

I could yap more about the contrast of the nest’s speck clean nature and the chaoticness of LaManchaLand, but that’s enough from me tonight.

So all in all, this is my analysis on why electro swing is appropriate for Don Canto VII Part 1 boss.

[melliae]

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Refraction Railway Line #4 Abnormalities

Refraction Railway Line#5 Abnormalities (Part 1: Hurting Teddy Bear; Rose Hunter; Sleeping Bag of a Bygone Day)

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[swshadowcouncil]

Rian: On Record

Extent of Creative Freedom:

Rian Johnson:

“I wasn’t given any directive as to what [Rey’s parentage] had to be,” he says. “I was never given the information that she is this or she is that.”

November 2017

Daisy Ridley:

“Yes [I know who Rey’s parents are]. Yeah [I do.]” “[I found out] when we were filming [Episode] VII.”

Interview

Germain Lussier (Journalist), speaking on the Last Jedi production process:

“Late in the design process, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said that the design of Canto Bight didn’t feel “Star Wars” enough to her. So the team scrapped everything and ultimately drew inspiration from early Ralph McQuarrie drawing’s of Jabba’s Palace.”

December 2017

Extent of Collaboration:

Rian:

Well, I don’t know.  [JJ] might have had thoughts in his head who it was going to be, but he didn’t dictate them to me.  He left it open, you know.”

December 2017

JJ Abrams:

“Larry and I had a bunch of thoughts of where certain things could go and we shared those things with Rian Johnson, who’s directing VIII. He had things that he came up with where he asked if it was possible if we could make some adjustments with what we were doing at the end, most of which we did — there were just a couple that didn’t feel right, so he made adjustments — but it was just collaboration.”

January 2016

and:

The script for VIII is written. I’m sure rewrites are going to be endless, like they always are. But what Larry and I did was set up certain key relationships, certain key questions, conflicts. And we knew where certain things were going. We had meetings with Rian and Ram Bergman, the producer of VIII. They were watching dailies when we were shooting our movie. We wanted them to be part of the process, to make the transition to their film as seamless as possible. I showed Rian an early cut of the movie, because I knew he was doing his rewrite and prepping. And as executive producer of VIII, I need that movie to be really good. Withholding serves no one and certainly not the fans. So we’ve been as transparent as possible.

Rian has asked for a couple of things here and there that he needs for his story. He is an incredibly accomplished filmmaker and an incredibly strong writer. So the story he told took what we were doing and went in the direction that he felt was best but that is very much in line with what we were thinking as well. But you’re right—that will be his movie; he’s going to do it in the way he sees fit. He’s neither asking for nor does he need me to oversee the process.

November 2015

Extent of Planning:

Rian:

“That’s what’s been really cool about the storytelling process. There is definitely the idea that we know it is a three-movie arc. We know the first film is an introduction, then the middle act is training, meaning challenging the characters. The third is where they all come together and you have to resolve everything. But I was truly able to write this script without bases to tag, and without a big outline on the wall. That meant I could react to what I felt from The Force Awakens, and what I wanted to see. I could make this movie personal. I could also just take these characters where it felt right and most interesting to take them. I think part of the reason the movie feels like it goes to some unexpected places with the characters is that we had that freedom. If it had all just been planned out and written down beforehand, it might have felt a little more calculated, I suppose.”

December 2017

Kathleen Kennedy:

“[Lucasfilm Story Group head] Kiri [Hart] has been very good about creating a narrative timeline, and having everybody involved in a certain narrative understand where it might fit. That’s become important to the way we talk about these stories.”

December 2016

and:

“No [J. J. Abrams didn’t do a treatment for future Star Wars episodes], because at that point we were sitting down and talking about where this might go, even as early on as with Michael Arndt. We were sort of plotting out, because obviously if you know up front that you’re building the pacing inside a trilogy structure, we needed to have some sense of where this saga was going without locking in on things and leaving room for creative development. But we had to have some sense of where we were going.”

December 2015

Hmm...

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