500k on One Battle for Best Picture
300k for Timothee Lead Performance
200k for Sean Penn supporting
50k for One Battle After Another for Best Adapted Screenplay
200k on Anderson
What makes Frieren so good is not the demon slaying, as based as that is.
What makes it so compelling, so endearing are moments like this. Moments in which the characters live in this world and forge bonds with such sincerity that it rings deeper within someone.
This grants the world substance, this gives the characters their weight. This used to be the norm for many series, but we’ve traded that for a sea of “hype moments and aura” or thinking only some grimdark depression has any real meaning.
Not to say Frieren doesn’t have some of those elements. It does, but it also doesn’t forget to give the moments that grant weight to all the hype, to all of the stakes. It remembers that its characters are more than just vehicles for the plot.
I would take 1000 more scenes of characters dancing together in bliss over an empty fight scene any day.
And I write fight scenes all the time.
This cut has been insane to me ever since I first saw it, but I’ve been fixated on Reze’s explosions, was never able to put my finger on what they looked like, until I realized…
They are BURN HOLES! Her explosions are so strong they are burning a hole in the film!