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Funny little doodle.
#big jack horner#jack horner#puss in boots#puss in boots the last wish#puss in boots 2#dreamworks fanart#dreamworks#fanart#myart#sketch#ethical bug#i want the bug to say the **** word
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i think āBigā Jack Horner is Disney, and hereās why
many of us have had the pleasure of seeing the incredible Puss in Boots: The Last Wish by now, and were blown away by its clever writing, enchanting animation and emotional character arcs. yet there is one character who booted the trend of having a reason for his behaviour, and outright refused to experience any growth whatsoever.
letās talk aboutĀ āBigā Jack Horner, and why i think heās supposed to represent Disney:
āBigā Jack Horner isnāt just an antagonist in The Last Wish - heās a villain. a self-obsessed, exploitative, murderous, petty, cruel bastard of a man whose awful behaviour isnāt just motivated by personal slights or childhood trauma: he sincerely enjoys hurting other people. whether itās cheating his goons (āThe Serpent Sistersā) out of a fair payment for their services or being excited about shooting a puppy in the face, thereās no denying that Jack delights in causing others pain and suffering. but what does he have to do with Disney?
letās answer that question with another question:Ā do you think that Jack, when placed next to the other antagonists - Goldi, The Three Bears, even Death - sticks out like a sore, plum-coloured thumb?
of course he does! but why? well, letās look at Jack on a surface level. Jack is a monolith of a human being. not only is he physically huge and intimidating, he is the inheritor of an enormous pastry fortune and operates in the manner of a mob boss, with countless resources and a whole variety of powerful magical items at his disposal. indeed, Jack employs a crack team of bakers/assassins called āThe Bakerās Dozenā to carry out many of his tasks. although Jack does harm others himself, it is because of these resources - including the people who work for him - that he is able to bypass many of the obstacles faced by our protagonists in an honest and character-developing way (e.g., the Pocket Full OāPosies in The Dark Forest). Jack doesnāt need to have a character arc the way the other characters do, because he is so wealthy and owns so much.
but Jackās reason for owning so much and being obsessed with magic and magical items isnāt through intellectual curiosity, or a traumatic backstory where he needed to learn how to wield magic. do you know what Jackās covert motivation for owning all of the magic in the world is?
itās money.
when we get the flashback of Jackās childhood, dancing for the entertainment of an audience using his nursery rhyme, we see him becoming jealous of Pinocchio - and we see Gepetto in the back, absolutely raking in the cash. if we consider this flashback as that crucial moment within which Jack decided to become what he is today - and the presence of our off-brand Jiminy Cricket inclines us to think so - then we can understand that Jack decided that from that moment forward, he would own all of the magic.Ā
letās go back to The Bakerās Dozen for a moment. this team of highly-competent, multidisciplinary artisans do everything for Jack, whether itās baking the pies which make him rich, or laying down their lives at his service. we arenāt given an in-universe reason for why they do this. yes, Jack is feared, but he is still the subject of mockery due to his humble beginnings as a nursery rhyme character. it certainly isnāt due to being treated or paid well. however, if we view the Bakerās Dozen as a metaphor for overworked, exploited artists whose views are routinely dismissed by the money-hungry, powerful corporation who owns their craft...things start to add up, donāt they? considering historic allegations of worker abuse at the hands of Disney, having Jack Horner literally step on their spines and encourage them to flex takes on a whole different meaning.Ā
it doesnāt end there. do you recognise the items that Jack pulls out of his Mary Poppins bag when his Bakerās Dozen are being destroyed by the Pocket Full OāPosies - the items that he callsĀ āthe big gunsā? itās the broomstick from Fantasia, the spinning wheel from Sleeping Beauty, the size snacks from Alice in Wonderland, and a knock-off Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio - all references to some of Disneyās earliest and most famous films.
still donāt believe me? well, letās recap more of the items Jack has in his repertoire:
a hook-hand (referencing Captain Hook in Peter Pan)
a trident (referencing King Triton in The Little Mermaid)
poison apple bombs (referencing The Evil Queen in Snow White)
a glass slipper (again referencing Cinderella)
remember what happens when the knock-off Jiminy Cricket (interesting that there are so many Pinocchio references specifically, huh?) is horrified that Jack is losing so many men? Jack says he isnāt worried about losing the manpower, because he has a bottomless bag full of magical weapons. Jack literally gets his power off of the backs of his workers.Ā sounds a lot like a big company justifying worker layoffs and exploitation because they have so many properties and are too big to fail, doesnāt it?Ā
hell, Jack doesnāt even know what half of these items do! when heās using the unicorn horns as ammo, he is surprised that they cause people to explode in a shower of confetti. viewing Jack through this lens, itās difficult not to think about enormous corporations gobbling up properties and churning out content with little to no regard for their artists (looking back at The Bakerās Dozen - some of whom do perish in the fight with the unicorn horns) or what the properties are about. we havenāt even touched on Jack coveting the Wishing Star,Ā a recurring motif in countless Disney movies as representing magic, dreams, and boundless creativity.Ā
now, i hear you saying,Ā ābut Star! why would DreamWorks bother writing their bad guy as a metaphor for Disney?ā believe it or not, this isnāt the first time that DreamWorks have done this. in case you didnāt know,Ā Lord Farquaad is a caricature of Michael Eisner, former chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company. the production of Shrek was actually quite troubled; animators who were perceived as having failed on other projects wereĀ āShrekedā, or sent to work on Shrek, instead of working on other (presumed to be more lucrative) films. of course, DreamWorks was co-founded by previous Disney CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, hence the animosity towards Disney and its works evident in the Shrek franchise. this is what formed the story of Shrek: an ugly, crude outsider character taking on the clean-cut moralising of a dictator hell-bent on a so-calledĀ āperfectā world, all created against the creative backdrop of a painful separation from Disney and a great deal of pent-up rage.Ā
the irreverent, crass and sometimes adult humour of Shrek was a middle finger to Disneyās high-censorship control on animation. this is why Lord Farquaad (which you may have noticed sounds a bit likeĀ āFuckwadā) is so obsessed with Duloc beingĀ āperfectā, and why he couldnāt stand the freedom of the fairy tale creatures who are the heroes of the first Shrek movie.
in fact, this kind of meta-commentary permeates the Shrek franchise:Ā
The Fairy Godmother from Shrek 2, despite being a fairy tale creature herself, is highly prejudiced against characters who break out of their perceived social norms: i.e., Shrek marrying Princess Fiona and getting his Happily Ever After. she is an expansion of the control left over by Lord Farquaad, and rich because of her monopolisation of fairy tale creatures and their stories.Ā
Prince Charming in Shrek the Third fails miserably to capitalise on these themes, but weāll get back to him!Ā
Rumpelstiltskin from Shrek Forever After tackles the gluttony of franchise reboots, and how soulless and rooted in corporate greed attempts to reboot often are. whilst not necessarily Disney-specific, Shrek Forever After follows the box office bomb that was Shrek the Third: a movie which noticeably fails to write a compelling narrative approaching any of the themes of the previous two films. the writers learned from their mistakes and wrote a movie which satirised their own selling-out of the franchise, becoming hollow and unnecessary andĀ āperfectā - the very thing they were making fun of in the earlier Shrek films.
there is one more area iād like to touch on: Jack Hornerās source material. we know thatĀ Little Jack HornerĀ is quite obscure: an 18th-century English nursery rhyme involving a boy who pulls a plum out of a pie with his thumb, and congratulates himself for his fortitude. but did you know that from its earliest conception, Little Jack Horner was associated with foolishness and dishonesty?
itās true: the simple yet inexplicable nature of the poem was lambasted for being infantile, and quickly became the subject of revision, moralisation, and even political satire. it is no mistake that toĀ ābe under oneās thumbā (as many of the characters in The Last Wish are to Jack, both literally and figuratively) means to be under oneās decisive control.Ā the choice of Jack Horner for the villain of The Last Wish is a clever one, because we could easily have ended up with a sympathetic Jack, whose ostracisation asĀ ānot even a fairy taleā may have led to a justifiable motive, even for his specific brand of cruelty. but instead, the writers of The Last Wish have gone one step further; theyāve transformed a source affiliated with idiocy and deception into a metaphor for a global multimedia conglomerate...all while portraying him as simultaneously terrifying, powerful, and ridiculous.Ā
it has been over a decade since Shrek Forever After was released, and Disney has changed dramatically in that time. a global giant, Disney now owns more enormous money-making properties than ever thought possible, and consistently capitalises on nostalgia for its early properties to make more money and accumulate power. since breaking out of its exclusive licensing agreement with Disney in 2016, DreamWorks has had no official connection to Disney, making the ground for mockery and satirisation of the company which spawned the studio all the more fertile.Ā āBigā Jack Horner is not just a glamorous return to form for the dreadful, unapologetically evil villain which Disney has eschewed in modern times - heās a hulking, egocentric monster whose avarice rivals that only of the corporation heās inspired by.Ā
and those are my thoughts onĀ āBigā Jack Horner! of course this is by no means the definitive interpretation - we should all just have fun with the movie and come up with whatever theories we like š„°š iād love to hear your thoughts on him and The Last Wish in general - heās definitely one of my favourite bad guys to be released in the past few years!
thanks so much for reading, and have yourselves a wonderful day š„°
#big jack horner#jack horner#puss in boots: the last wish#puss in boots#shrek#disney#puss in boots: the last wish spoilers#starleskatalks
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Anyone else?
#willy wonka#gene wilder#willy wonka 1971#barbie preminger#martin short#barbie princess and the pauper#king candy#wreck it ralph#sugar rush#alan tudyk#the warden#superjail#adult swim#big jack horner#puss in boots and the last wish#john mulaney#dr facilier#princess and the frog#keith david
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Do you think Death was chasing down puss in boots but kept on having to do his job every time one of the baker dozen died. Heād be so close and then do a Swiper āaw manā everytime because Big Jack Horner just kept on killing people
#puss in boots#spoilers#puss in boots the last wish#Big Jack Horner#Death (Puss In Boots)#Because all 13 of those guys died#and their deaths are to emphasize that Jack Horner is evil#because death isnāt funny in this movie even when presented as comical#because we see him#and because are favorite fearless hero sees him and is scared of him#we know we should be too#and if Death is the only one#like that time Puss had a panic attack Death was chasing after him#and like one of the dozen dies because Jack is awful#he has a job to do and he canāt let his pettiness get in the way
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Disney: Yeah, sorryy, we don't know how to make villains without queercoding them and people didn't like the twist-villains, so we stopped making them alltogether :( I hope you like 3593 intergenerational family-traumas!
Dreamworks, while creating not one, not two, but three amazing villains: Pathetic
#puss in boots#puss in boots the last wish#dreamworks#animation#shrek#disney#honestly#everyone talks already about wolf and yeah hes amazing#but Goldie Locks and her family were so cute and adorable#the whole theme with just right?#it killed me#and Big Jack Horner was just a dick#and he doesnt only know this he owns it#'it's adorable how you think that would work Don't you know I'm dead inside?'#perfect delivery#we need more old school villains#(and yeah i like family stories and encantos story about family trauma was good#but like... Strange World would have been so much better if it had a villain#none of that misunderstanding-bullshit#it would have been so easy too the president was right there#but alas)
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i'm pretty sure someone already made this but here you go!
#tried to be as accurate as possible sorry#puss in boots#puss in boots 2#puss in boots last wish#puss in boots the last wish#puss in boots: the last wish#puss in boots kitty softpaws#kitty softpaws#puss in boots perrito#perrito#puss in boots goldilocks#goldilocks and the three bears#mama bear#papa bear#puss in boots wolf#big bad wolf#the big bad wolf#puss in boots death#death puss in boots#puss in boots jack horner#jack horner#big jack horner#dreamworks#meme#meme chart
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) ā "WANTED"
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#puss in boots: the last wish#puss in boots#dreamworks#gifset#animation#gif warning#gifs#kitty softpaws#hooded wolf#goldi locks and the three bears#big jack horner#perrito#wanted poster#puss in boots 2#puss in boots: the last wish spoilers#spoilers
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the puss in boots movie rlly does have everything, including this type of villain
#i love that the cricket still tried to see him in positive light when he started talking about the wish#but nope#it was just more selfish stuff that would ruin the world#puss in boots#puss in boots spoilers#puss in boots the last wish#big jack horner#idk whats the cricket's name#im too tired to gif but i havent rlly seen any stuff about this scene specifically#dreamworks#mine#long post#its as if.. as if i heard those similar words from some other ppl hm#amazing storytelling to our todays world
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Look! I thought of the worst ship ever! I was incredibly uncomfortable while drawing it but my housemateās horrified face and loud āNo!ā every time I showed her my progress made it all worth it and I hope you will experience the same joy by exposing unsuspecting victims you love very much to it.
#it would never work#theyāre too selfish#cut theyād probably have fun being unapologetic villains together#for a short time#shrek#big jack horner#jack horner#lord farquaad#puss in boots the last wish#jacquaard
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Uprising tumblr sexyman
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#big jack horner#puss and boots the last wish#puss and boots the last wish big jack horner#jack horner#my art!
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his swagless looks and cringe fail personality have captivated me
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Ć o JoĆ£ozinho de novo, isso mesmo
#puss in boots#puss in boots the last wish#big jack horner#jack horner#jack horner fanart#big jack horner fanart
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New PiB:tlw textposts weeee (part 3)
#puss in boots#the last wish#puss in boots 2#puss in boots the last wish#kitty softpaws#big jack horner#perrito#death the wolf#death puss in boots#shrek#dreamworks#puss in boots text post#textpost#puss in boots goldilocks#goldilocks
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But what is this? A 100% finished drawing and not some silly sketch. š“wow this man is making me work.
I would have liked to work more on that fund, but I am already exhausted enough to continue
#big jack horner#jack horner#puss in boots#puss in boots 2: the last wish#digital painting#digital ilustration#painting#ilustration#drawing#digital drawing
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normal (lying) about this manās whole deal
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