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Day 09 - Best scene ever
This is definitely not a question I can answer definitively, so I'll just talk about all the ones I can think of. Beware of spoilers, though I'll try to speak of things in oblique terms so you can forget them easily afterward.
Utena opening the Rose Gate in episode 39 is a powerful, powerful moment (as is the scene that follows). She has been betrayed by the one she sought to save, her heart-sword has been ripped from her chest, and she just got stabbed. But she doesn't stop, she doesn't give up; she gets up, she runs, she pushes right past Akio and pries open the Rose Gate with her bare hands.
That one guy's death in Samurai Champloo. He can go home and apologize to his mother for what he's done, it's all worked out, they're going to get away, Fuu saved the day again with her magic powers of talking-people-out-of-things, it's all going to be fine -- and then he gets shot right in front of her. I love that scene, because it makes my heart hurt. (Same goes for several of Cowboy Bebop's death scenes, by the way. They're beautiful because they make me outright sob.)
"So long as you call me that, my name is . . . Roger Smith." I shall save all my Dorothy love for later. Just know that she is a badass android teenager who spends all her time criticizing the hero's bad taste and playing the piano loudly while he's trying to sleep.
[Big fat huge spoiler removed]'s death in Trigun. You don't see that kind of thing often, and it may be the most powerful death scene I've ever watched. Because in the end, he wanted to live.
. . . Everything else I can think of is either incredibly incredibly spoiler-y, or something I haven't seen animated/filmed. So I'll end it here for now.
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Oh, one important thing! I have about ten books on Chinese language and history I'm reading/studying right now, several novels I'm trying to finish, most of my Geometry and Chemistry self-study-thing, a skirt, and a shawl, all of which need to be finished by the end of the month, and the first season of A:TLA to watch in a single week. Also I have a lot of writing to catch up on.
So, obviously the thing I need to do most right now is ASK FOR MORE NONFICTION/EDUCATIONAL FICTION RECS. |D
. . . Stuff about Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East would be nice, since I have no idea what to start with there. Also books about Chinese -- not just 'here, vocab and grammar', but actual analysis and history -- would be really great. Really interesting stuff on East Asia is also excellent, but I already have at least somewhere to begin there.
This is definitely not a question I can answer definitively, so I'll just talk about all the ones I can think of. Beware of spoilers, though I'll try to speak of things in oblique terms so you can forget them easily afterward.
Utena opening the Rose Gate in episode 39 is a powerful, powerful moment (as is the scene that follows). She has been betrayed by the one she sought to save, her heart-sword has been ripped from her chest, and she just got stabbed. But she doesn't stop, she doesn't give up; she gets up, she runs, she pushes right past Akio and pries open the Rose Gate with her bare hands.
That one guy's death in Samurai Champloo. He can go home and apologize to his mother for what he's done, it's all worked out, they're going to get away, Fuu saved the day again with her magic powers of talking-people-out-of-things, it's all going to be fine -- and then he gets shot right in front of her. I love that scene, because it makes my heart hurt. (Same goes for several of Cowboy Bebop's death scenes, by the way. They're beautiful because they make me outright sob.)
"So long as you call me that, my name is . . . Roger Smith." I shall save all my Dorothy love for later. Just know that she is a badass android teenager who spends all her time criticizing the hero's bad taste and playing the piano loudly while he's trying to sleep.
[Big fat huge spoiler removed]'s death in Trigun. You don't see that kind of thing often, and it may be the most powerful death scene I've ever watched. Because in the end, he wanted to live.
. . . Everything else I can think of is either incredibly incredibly spoiler-y, or something I haven't seen animated/filmed. So I'll end it here for now.
-
Oh, one important thing! I have about ten books on Chinese language and history I'm reading/studying right now, several novels I'm trying to finish, most of my Geometry and Chemistry self-study-thing, a skirt, and a shawl, all of which need to be finished by the end of the month, and the first season of A:TLA to watch in a single week. Also I have a lot of writing to catch up on.
So, obviously the thing I need to do most right now is ASK FOR MORE NONFICTION/EDUCATIONAL FICTION RECS. |D
. . . Stuff about Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East would be nice, since I have no idea what to start with there. Also books about Chinese -- not just 'here, vocab and grammar', but actual analysis and history -- would be really great. Really interesting stuff on East Asia is also excellent, but I already have at least somewhere to begin there.
