War Movies Month 4 - Hot Shots! Part Deux
War Movies Month 4 – Hot Shots! Part Deux
As much as war is a serious subject, whenever I do a War Movies Month on this blog, I like to talk about at least one movie that shouldn’t be taken seriously. Last time, I looked at Hitler: Dead Or Alive, a movie from the early 40s about a bunch of gangsters sent to assassinate Hitler. At the time, it was propaganda movie encouraging America’s involvement in the Second World War. In hindsight,…
View On WordPress
0 notes
Sabin "McBain" Figaro
I realized something recently about this artwork of Sabin by Yoshitaka Amano.
(Weirdly, there don't seem to be any high-resolution scans of this artwork, at least not that I could find.)
This artwork was the first time I saw Sabin, way way waaaaaaay back in the issue of Nintendo Power (👴) that featured FF6.
All this time, I had thought that this artwork was of Sabin climbing up a mountain. But a few weeks ago, I looked at this artwork again and Sabin is 100% NOT climbing up a mountain. In fact, I don't know how I could have thought otherwise for so many years!
Nothing about the terrain looks natural. Everything appears to be metallic, smooth, and industrial-looking. There are even plumes of dark smoke in the background. How or why I thought he was scaling a mountain is beyond me.
Given the world of FF6 - and given the unnatural appearance of his environment - I'd guess that he's in or near Vector. The other industrial areas of the world, such as Figaro and Narshe, are not portrayed with such grimness.
Interestingly, Amano's portrayal of Sabin varies; I feel like he's either depicted as a lithe, semi-brooding naturalist, or as a hyper-masculine, Rambo-esque drill sergeant.
I suppose in a way, both of those are aspects to Sabin's personality, but the Sabin in my headcanon leans more towards the former.
(I'll also note that Rambo-Sabin appears to have a receding hairline and seems to be shouldering a gun, and one of those feels extremely uncharacteristic for him.)
I wonder why Amano depicts Sabin in such differing forms. Certainly his portrayal of FF6 characters went through a series of prototypes (hello peppermint Interceptor), so was Rambo Sabin an earlier prototype or a later one?
Anyway, it blows my mind that I had mistaken the context of the first artwork of Sabin I'd ever seen. Even though that artwork portrays Sabin Schwarzenegger using his macho strength to climb... I dunno, a tank or something?... I still think of Sabin as being less militaristic and more agrestalistic.
And if he HAS to be compared to a hardcore army veteran action hero, it should only be Topper Harley.
12 notes
·
View notes
Elmer: You don't understand. I can't walk...the wabbit tied my shoewaces together.
Pvt. Snafu: A knot! Rascal!
0 notes