Howdy! I’m probably going to be gone for most of the month of November but I want to leave you guys with some art and ScreenCap Analysis! This is the first of hopefully three queued bits for this blog this month!
NATM2 ScreenCap Analysis: The Jed Cage Guy
A few nights ago while doing homework, I was rewatching NATM 2 for inspo. and I got to the scene where Al’s gang capture Jed in the birdcage and Kah’s putting him in the hourglass. I’ve watched this so many times so I was looking at background characters when this was happening and I saw something with the antagonists of the film- everybody (besides Ivan and Kah) seemed very surprised that the hourglass scene was happening.
I wasn’t able to get good screenshots of Al’s face but by the two I was able to get, he doesn’t look to happy to me (Then again, I’m not too good at reading facial expressions). To me, he has a look of “Who the fuck does this guy think he is? First my men call him boss and now he’s ordering them around?” and a mix of “Holy hell, is this guy serious? Where is he puttin’ this cowpoke?”
The Mobster who’s holding the cage, who I headcanon as Ralph Capone, doesn’t seem too happy about this either. Firstly, I headcanon this guy as Ralph because of this guy's facial features, and it seems body type (From the one picture I have of Ralph when he was 21, can’t really tell though because he is sitting down). Ralph was also really important to Al, so I figure he would have a pretty important job, i.e. looking after hostages. To me, in this scene, Ralph does not look happy to do this. It seems likes he’s holding a poker face but isn’t doing it too well and his surprise is showing through. He’s brows are furrowed, and it seems to keep looking over at Al to ask questions and down at Jed.
