#the last wolf film

[noirrex]

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) dir. Joel Crawford

[hydravns]

DEATH

PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH (2022)

[peterkothe]

“Sorry to crash the party with your past lives! Or, your past DEATHS, as I like to call them!”

PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH, the animated sequel that took everyone by surprise by how utterly AMAZING it was!!! Fantastic story, humor, characters, animation, and the best villain to grace animated movies in years, THE WOLF!!

[baambastic]

Spoilers ahead for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

I can’t stop thinking about The Last Wish (go see it if you haven’t, seriously, it’s incredible) and I wanted to talk about a moment that I think carries a lot of meaning even though it’s easy to gloss over.

I want to talk about the moments before and after Puss draws his gatito blade against El Lobo del Muerte.

During Puss’s climactic duel with Death, the Wolf slashes Puss’s boot, bats away his hat, and knocks his sword out of his hand. The Wolf is destroying the symbols of the legend of Puss in Boots, stripping Puss’s mortality bare.

But Puss is no longer defenseless before Death. He has spent the movie’s runtime building bonds with other characters, finally letting others into his life, no longer walking alone as his legend demanded. His gatito blade, given to him by Kitty Softpaws, represents this development. Puss has cast aside his legend through learning the value of his life, and in doing so, he can stand against and block Death’s blows.

Ironically, Death’s attempts to take Puss early are the very catalyst for Puss’s success in redefining himself, symbolized by Death’s blocked blow allowing Puss to reclaim his symbols—his hat and sword—with their meaning now changed by the accompaniment of the gatito blade. The unstoppable weight of Death’s scythe has quite literally pushed Puss towards a new life.

The Last Wish is packed with moments of visual symbolism, but this one in particular is the standout to me, both because and in spite of its brevity.

[motherdanger]

"What's the matter? Lives flashing before your eyes?"

[nerdypuddincup]

So theory/headcanon time.

I'm reading through the Novelization of Wolfman 2010 because I love that film and I want more of it. But one thing caught my eye as I'm reading it. The old man who gifts Lawrence the iconic silver wolf head cane is an enigmatic figure in the film, but in the book there's something more to him. He feels a kinship with Lawrence. And when he offers Talbot his cane, their fingers touch for a moment. Lawrence physically moves his hand away from how deathly cold the man's touch is. And instantly my mind went to the cane's appearance in last year's underrated Last Voyage of the Demeter where the cane was in Dracula's possession.

So my theory now is that Last Voyage was an older script that was going to use the cane as connective tissue to the Wolfman and try to give the Universal Monsters another attempt at a cinematic universe. But due to the poor return on Wolfman they held off on the script.

And my headcanon shall now forever be that the old man was indeed Dracula sensing the kindred darkness in Lawrence, gifts him his cane. And that Wolfman 2010 and Last Voyage take place in the same universe.

[wolfnanaki]

Death | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Sorry to crash the party with your past lives... or your past deaths as I like to call them. I was there to witness all of them. Each. Frivolous. End. But you didn’t even notice me, because "Puss in Boots laughs in the face of death"… right? But you’re not laughing now.

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Sarah 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

April 14,1977

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

14 Aprile 1977

[dovelywind]

ꕥ| Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Doodles

[ghcstao3]

werewolf ghost au where soap will fully take advantage of ghost not having hands when he’s shifted to do dumb things like put socks on ghost’s paws just to see him do that funny walk dogs do when things are put on their feet. and ghost obviously puts up with it because it’s Soap but he’s never happy about it

[linkdryn]

I haven’t seen anyone post this here yet, so here you go :3

[hydravns]

BIG BAD WOLF / DEATH

PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH (2022)

[theoutcastrogue]

I love you non-omniscient narrators, I love you unreliable narrators, I love you multiple POVs, I love you rival POVs, I love you revelations that recontextualise and put to question everything that's preceded them, I love looking at the same thing from different angles, I love you Rashomon, I love you The Last of Us Part II, I love you ASOIAF, I love you Black Leopard, Red Wolf/Moon Witch, Spider King.

[captain-crowfish]

"What a blatant attempt to demonize and vilify Boxtrolls, all in the name of some twisted, anti-cardboard agenda. As if we don't have enough of this false rhetoric nonsense polluting our media landscape already. What, do you, so called "artists" think you're being politically correct by portraying Boxtrolls as these grotesque, monstrous creatures? 😒 It's nothing but a cheap ploy to appeal to the basest instincts of their cheese-eating, imperialist audience.

And the way they've chosen to depict this poor creature: all twisted and distorted, with those haunting, soulless yellow eyes, it's just a blatant attempt to strip away the inherent dignity and worth of our fellow sentient beings, my family. As if they're nothing more than mindless, savage beasts to be feared. Reported."

[jammiedoggo]

Death brings fear

I was originally going to upload in halloween but i don't have enough time to do the rest. So i've finished it in spare time, just to get it done. There's no need to explain in details why Puss in boots 2 is perfect masterpiece, there so many youtube video review about this film but this film is one of my favourites of all time. Update: I had forgot to remove sketch folder in fire alpaca that i uploaded defected art, so i had to fixed it up to reupload this fixed version.

[skunkifurr]

Love this film sm