The Force Shall Set Me Free

Is actually a raptor. Gamer, Larper, cosplayer. Disaster queer, neurodivergent, meme trash (any pronouns)

[tielan]

[♥] Mako/Raleigh - Pacific Rim Meme: Relationships (¼)

I crave you in the most innocent form

for I crave to say good night and give you forehead kisses

and to say that I adore you when you feel at your worst.

I crave you in ways where I just want to be next to you and nothing more or less.

[love-as-thou-wilt]

“I think that every choice is political. When you decide that a woman can be a character of her own and not have to fall in love with the f***ing guy, that’s a political choice. When you choose that they can speak in their own language and be subtitled, that’s a political choice. I think it’s very important for us to understand that we are all — the whole world — in the same robot. It’s this f***ing planet. No matter who you are, what you like to do, whatever your race or whatever your religion, we’re all human. And I think it’s really great to make a movie that celebrates that diversity.”

—

Q: I really appreciate the fact that you have non-American actors speaking their native languages, instead of making it seem like everyone in the world speaks English like it usually is in most Hollywood movies. Why is Hollywood so allergic to subtitles? — Interview in Today Online with Guillermo del Toro, 11/07/2013

BAAAHHHH WHY IS HE SO GREAT

(via forochel)

#god you try to tell me some more that guillermo del toro #did not mean every single choice in the movie #the casting of a japanese actress to play a japanese character #the casting of a black english man with a working class accent to play the authority figure #YOU TRY TO TELL ME AGAIN #THAT GUILLERMO DEL TORO #DOES NOT MEAN EVERY SINGLE CHOICE (via quigonejinn)

[hirocks]

[verysharpteeth]

Do y’all know how striking this scene in an action movie was to me? Main lead, who is young and gorgeous and the whitest of whites, oversteps his bounds. He touches a commanding officer. In any other action movie the dressing down would not be this severe (Elba’s adlibbing on this is terrifying…forget kaijus, Raleigh looks more scared by him than anything that crawls out of the breach and half the audience squirmed in chastened sympathy because WOW). And the thing is, Raleigh is right. His initial argument that Stacker is holding back Mako is for all intents and purposes, the correct assessment. He’s RIGHT. But he isn’t in a position to tell that to a commanding officer, especially the way he does. So Stacker puts him back in his place. Raleigh KNOWS he went out of line the minute he touched Stacker and rather than argue or shout “you know I’m right” or storm off or IGNORE a commanding officer like any other action movie would have the hero do, Raleigh backs down. Stacker doesn’t even let him get away with just the nod and choked back frustration, he makes him VERBALLY back down as well. There is no question who is in charge here. Raleigh is obviously angry and frustrated and still riding the testosterone high of kicking Chuck’s face, but he FREAKIN’ BACKS DOWN LIKE ANYONE WITH SENSE IN THE MILITARY WOULD. It’s always baffled me that main rodeo cowboy hero of every movie can just walk all over rank and command and not pay for it because he’s “special”. Raleigh only sort of does this once (and remember, his argument is valid) and he’s immediately reminded that’s not what he’s there for. And he KNOWS because he never complains about it, never goes off and stews about how unfair Stacker is, never holds it against Stacker later. He knows he crossed a line and he belly crawls back across it because it’s all about respect and he overstepped.This is something 9 out of 10 action movies wouldn’t address.

[quigonejinn]

This is carried through in really fucking interesting ways throughout the movie, actually.  You remember the scene where we get introduced to Stacker?  The Becket boys are joking with Tendo about his disaster of a love life, and it’s cute and fun and casual and dude shenanigans — and then it gets announced that the Marshal is on deck.  The camera happens to be on Tendo, and you see him — you see on-fucking-screen how his shoulders straighten and he sits up and his tone of voice changes and goes professional.  And you see it again, too, in the post-double event scene where people are in a joyous, packed crowd around Mako and Raleigh — and then Stacks shows up at the door, and a path fucking parts for him like he is smoking-hot Moses in a double-breasted suit.    

That’s presence, folks.  That’s charisma, and even more than that, it’s people respecting a natural fucking leader who has earned respect.  

It’s been pointed out that people disobey Stacker in PacRim all the fucking time.  You’ll note that it’s not something undertaken for shits and giggles, though.  Instead, it’s because they’ve made an evaluation in the field and disagree because they think it’ll cost lives — each time, it’s presented in a sympathetic light, and each time, the movie shows that their disobedience Does Not Get What The Disobedient Ones Want. Remember that Yancy and Raleigh disobey Stacker’s order to stay back, and Yancy gets dead (and it’s not clear that they actually manage to save the dudes on the ship).  Chuck and Herc disobey the order to stay back because they’re trying to save the other Jaeger pilots, which they not only fail to do, but they get hit with an EMP pulse from the kaiju.  If Mako and Raleigh don’t arrive when they do, both it would’ve been a long, long fall into water for two Aussie pilots, and the world would have been well and truly fucked.  

The movie underscores this with what I consider to be the goddamn climax of the whole thing.  I mean, what’s the biggest command that Stacker gives?  Like, the single biggest one?  

To me, it’s gotta be when he tells Mako (Mako! Specifically!) during Pitfall that she can do this. She can finish it.  And Mako does it, even though it clearly fucking costs her not to try and go to Striker’s aid, even though it isn’t phrased as an order.  Stacker knows he doesn’t have to phrase it that way, because he knows that he has been Mako’s fixed point since she was ten years old.  He knows that she knows what should happen.  And he knows that he is right.  And that Mako agrees, too, because again: fixed point for how many years now?  The command doesn’t need to be verbalized as such.  It doesn’t even need to be entirely articulated, because the Drift that Mako and Stacker share isn’t a physical one inside a Jaeger with a Pons mechanism.  Instead, it exists because Stacker and Mako found each other in the wreckage of Tokyo.  Stacker raised Mako, and they share the same value system and the same way of looking at the world and the same fierce pride and devotion and willingness to lay down personal attachments to other lives if it means saving the motherfucking world.  

That’s their Drift.  

So Stacker tells Mako that she can make this sacrifice — his life, for the world.  It’s a parallel to the situation that Yancy and Raleigh have to make in Alaska, with the fishermen versus the city of two million, and the one that Herc and Chuck have in Hong Kong, with the lives of their fellow Rangers versus one of the few great coastal cities left.  Yancy and Raleigh and Herc and Chuck choose to disobey, and each time, not only does it not get them what they want, but it’s got shitty consequences.

This time, instead of laying it down as an order, Stacker tells Mako that she can finish it.  She’ll always be able to find in him in their particular version of the Drift.  

And Mako obeys because she agrees with him.  

And they save the world.  

Let me emphasize that: the world gets saved without further loss of life because Mako and Raleigh follow Stacker’s directive to Mako. 

Stacker fucking Pentecost, everyone.  This fucking movie, everyone. 

[baeddelshinsgirl]

That last gesture is completely, “Swallow your pride, child, because lives are too important for this petty bullshit.” And when Raleigh says “Yes, sir,” the matter is over.

[ciri-geralt]

Struck by tragedy.

[dead-end-street]

[verysharpteeth]

YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. He literally thought he was going to die. He thought this was the last time he’d see her. That’s why he was so gentle and forward with her. HE THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO DIE. And the last thing he says to her is reassuring her that he can do the job. BECAUSE IN HIS MIND SHE’S THE COMPETENT PILOT. He’s the old hack who couldn’t save his brother. So the last thing he says to her is trying to tell her he can do this one thing and not to worry.

[genofattolia]

when raleigh walks around and does the thing (◕‿◕✿)

[rvlvrocelthot-deactivated202009]

Raleigh Becket is like proof that you can have ur super manly beefcake action hero and make him not a misogynistic shitwaffle tho

[love-as-thou-wilt]

[thosetwodeadboys]

social media + pacific rim inspired by (x) (x) (x) and (x) 

[flatbear]

and then all of the monsters died, and Mako Mori finally adopted the dumb puppy she had always wanted

[salamispots]

breathe

[enalgunlugar]

Becket, this is Mako Mori.

[jeaniefranklins]

#I AM GONNA FUCKING DIE #THEIR FIRST MEETING MADE INTO THIS SWEEPING ENCOMPASSING THING IN THEIR SHARED MEMORIES #drifting in2 each other’s hearts

[verysharpteeth]

But look how they perceived each other too. This memory isn’t an exact one (memories rarely are). Raleigh’s perception of Mako was very close up and she’s this stunning, slightly sad, closed off thing framed by her umbrella like a halo. She looks exquisite and unapproachable in a way. Mako’s perception of Raleigh has him looking far more serious and sad than he actually looked when they met. The camera angle zooms in like she was suddenly really taking in who this guy was and he looks forbidding and far more warrior like than he ever does in real life. If you notice, that one frame makes him look more like Stacker than any other moment in that movie. If that was her perception, something about Raleigh ALREADY reminded her of the level of command her father had and not only is she the only one in the movie who sees that, but we realize it’s an internal thing on Raleigh’s part because he doesn’t ACT like Stacker, but he sure has the same grit.

[roguepythia]

I so love when people see things I miss! When I saw these gifs together, my jaw dropped. They actually took the time to refilm their first meeting. Blows my mind how much thought they put into the drift sequences. I wish we could get a point by point explanation of each drift cause there is a lot in there we don’t understand.

[heliosapphic]

#quietest otp

[kpfun]

[verysharpteeth]

BUT YOU CAN HAVE IT IF YOU REALLY WANT IT. YOU CAN HAVE ANYTHING. YOU DESERVE NICE THINGS. LOVE ME.

[copiloting]

You a pilot? 

No, not yet. But I wanna be one, more than anything.

[zombeesknees]

#that fucking chin-lift on ‘what’s your simulator score’  #HEY GURL MY NAME’S RALEIGH WANNA HEAR A SECRET? MISS MORI I AM IN TO YOU.  #YOU WANNA BE A PILOT  #MAAAAN THAT IS COOL  #YOU REBUILT MY GIANT ROBOT HEART PROXY AND YOU ALSO WANNA BE A PILOT  #I BET YOU’RE REALLY GOOD AT IT  #OH WOW 51 KILLS YOU *ARE* REALLY GOOD AT IT  #WHAT ARE YOU DOING LATER?  #WANNA BE MY CO-PILOT?  #OR GET A COFFEE?  #OR SEE A MOVIE?  #FOR AS LONG AS WE BOTH SHALL LIVE?

[laguerradelasgalaxias]

Mako & Raleigh + text posts

[kunsel]

[falulatonksarchive]

#god this is always so beautiful to me #raleigh is so beautifully kind here #not ‘let me save you mako’ but #’let me do this last task mako you did everything important and let me just do this simple thing’

[nomorepennies]

[officialbluebeetle-deactivated2]

I WAS GOING THROUGH THE REALLY FAST SCENES IN THE DRIFT IN PACIFIC RIM BECAUSE I AM A GIANT NERD AND WANTED TO SEE THEM SLOWED DOWN

BUT THEN IN THE ONE WITH NEWT AND HERMANN SOMETHING CAUGHT MY EYE

LOOK AT THE CROWD. LOOK AT THE SIGNS. THIS WAS BARELY THERE FOR A SECOND BUT HE’S CHANTING IN TIME WITH EVERYONE ELSE IN THE CROWD

NEWT IS AT A FUCKIGN FEMINIST RALLY

NEWTON GEISZLER IS A FEMINIST DO U KNOW HOW HAPPY THIS MAKES ME