Arcane's Perfect 40 Seconds

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  @matthieuzglurg6015 · 4 years ago · pinned

  I was very hesitant about Arcane.<br><br>I don&apos;t watch a lot of anime or animation in general (mostly because I&apos;m a camera nerd and what I enjoy the most in cinema are the techniques used to create the images we see), last animation stuff that got me really into it was Spiderverse.<br><br>On top of that, I don&apos;t really like League, I know it has a complex lore and stuff, but the overall cartoon-ish appearance of the game always kept me away from learning mre about the characters.<br><br>When they announced a Netflix animated show, I was like &quot;uuuh really? that&apos;s gonna suck&quot;. When act 1 came out, I ignored it, had otehrs things to do bla bla bla. When my Twitter timeline freaked out about it for a whole week, I was like... okay let&apos;s give it a try.<br><br>It won me over in the first 30 seconds of the first episode. That introduction sequence has EVERYTHING : storytelling, killing visuals (no pun intended) powerful music and it introduces you to the world without a line of dialogue besides Powder singing in the begenning.<br><br>My favourite scene (at least one of them, there&apos;s so many) is probably Silco&apos;s speech to Vander&apos;s statue in ep. 9. That scene is like 50 seconds long but it is such a payoff to Silco&apos;s character, how he comes to realize what Vander&apos;s went through in episode 2 and 3. And the sound track was amazing too.<br><br>There is so much good in Arcane that I could be there writing about all the stuff I like in this show for days, if not weeks

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  @xxclokwerkzxx6438 · 4 years ago

  &apos;in the pursuit of great, we failed to do good&quot; what a powerful line whoever thought this up is a genius

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  @Supernaturlisch · 4 years ago

  Arcane being about &quot;triumph, moments before tragedy&quot; is so true

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• AN

  @anfurnee · 4 years ago

  viktor by far was the biggest surprise for me. For someone that plays the game, i was so impressed where they took the character.

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• YU

  @yuwei_ · 4 years ago

  I think something most people have never noticed is that Viktor actually upgraded to a crutch after the timeskip.

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  @ashura4627 · 4 years ago (edited)

  As a disabled person, with a very similar disability to Viktor&apos;s, the running scene struck me right where it hurts.<br>It felt like those moments when you feel a little bit better, when the pain is less excruciating, when you feel you can almost do everything... And it leaves you wanting more, more to the point you&apos;ll do anything to get there. <br><br>That scream, that catharsis, Holly shit yeah! <br><br>I have been there, countless times, and i&apos;ll know I&apos;ll be there again countless more. And it was portrayed so beautifully painful... It was so real. <br>I felt like, for those 40 seconds, I was there, in his shoes.<br><br>And that&apos;s why this scene is my all time favourite of this show.

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  @greencrayon01 · 4 years ago

  As someone with who couldn&apos;t properly run until this year at 22 years old this scene hit me so hard. I was born with a series of bone deformities in my legs and movement has always been awkward and painful. This year I had 2 major surgeries to break and reset my bones into the right place. Its impossible to describe the emotion of experiencing a normal body for the first time as an adult. The feeling learning to walk and run in a way you never have been able to before. I feel like a lot of people will understand Viktor&apos;s journey from the perspective of recovering from an injury as that is more common. But when its something you are born with you have no reference of what it is like to walk without pain or for the mechanics of you body to offer no resistance. I yelled too when I ran for the first time months after surgery. It was joy, amazement, but mostly grief. Cause I finally knew what I had been missing out on my whole life. I think I lot of people miss that layer to Viktor&apos;s emotion if you haven&apos;t experienced it before.

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  @AM-ko4pi · 4 years ago

  Man, when you pointed out the boats in the background and related it to him chasing his toy boat as a child I got choked up. I never made the connection. What a great detail. Thank you for pointing it out.

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  @NotTzeentch · 4 years ago

  He could have kept the crutch as a backup, but he wouldn’t accept failure.<br>The shimmer was his crutch for the hexcore.<br>Beautiful how it’s all connected.

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  @YorkJonhson · 4 years ago

  Glad to see someone talking about this scene. A lot of Arcane&apos;s characters surprised me, but something about Viktor and this moment in particular really stuck with me. Like a lot of people, I thought they were setting up how he&apos;s being overshadowed by Jayce as Piltover&apos;s golden boy, but it goes so much deeper than expected. He doesn&apos;t care about the wealth or glory. He&apos;s a man trying to push the fast-forward button on scientific progress, not just because he&apos;s wrestling with his own mortality, but because his ailments are a reflection of the suffering that goes on in the undercity every single day that they aren&apos;t doing something to change it. And when they&apos;re so close to a breakthrough, he has the rug pulled out from under him, telling him that time is almost up. It changes perspective on everything, making Heimerdinger&apos;s well-intentioned words about waiting decades for safety and protocol seem cruel and out-of-touch, while Singe&apos;s extreme measures to preserve life no matter the cost start to make more and more sense. <br><br>It&apos;s all capped off with Viktor&apos;s run in the rain. No words, not even a smile or look of disbelief. Just a crescendo of music and a cry of exertion as he&apos;s able to leave his crutch behind, and truly run for the first time in his life.

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  @portsidedyldo2661 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGv12Up0LDM&amp;t=460">7:40</a> the reason why it’s more believable than human acting is because with live action you have a person trying to be someone else. But with animation that is whole heartedly the character. It’s not somebody trying to act like Jinx, it’s 100% jinx. <br><br>It’s kinda hard to explain but I hope you understand what I meant

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  @Reveri247 · 4 years ago

  When I think back on the show, it&apos;s hard to believe Viktor had less screentime than so many of the characters given the impact he had. I think it&apos;s a testament to how well this show utilizes its time and just how great of a character Viktor really is. He was easily my favorite and I&apos;m so glad to see him, and his incredible running scene, recieving so much well-deserved praise. I cannot wait to see what&apos;s in store for Viktor and hope he gets more spotlight next time. Great video btw, would love to see more!

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