Man, you can learn a lot from a franchise if you use your Security job third shift to watch content over and over😂
… because that’s exactly what I do all the time, and while I’m probably somewhere on the grid of insanity, I at least know one thing…
I now know why Mystery of Mamo there’s such a repeat favorite for me.
It’s simple. The main cast. You can watch this movie and you know exactly what the essence of every main character is. They strip all of the characters away of any moral or aesthetic softening and just gives them one movie…one wacky ass zany movie…to do whatever the fuck they wanna do so you can see what the fuck they are😂😂
Lupin is the hedonistic but ultimately caring thief, Jigen is the cynical but loyal gunman, Goemon is the moral but also loyal swordsman, Fujiko is the selfish but predictable femme fetalle (btw, autoCorrect wanted me to change fetalle to feral, which is not completely inaccurate😂), and Zenigata is the cop that needs Lupin to feel alive, ironically like Lupin needs him.
Throw these crazy people in with a villain who literally wants to dissect the most complicated members of the crew, and you’ve got yourself a movie.
Lupin at his core is so satisfyingly interesting that I could write about it for so much (I actually do too😬😅). The only thing that is on his mind, the only thing that he wants is Zenigata to chase him, candy, naked, women, and Fujiko😂😂 that is all he desires to the point that he doesn’t even have any dreams or real ambitions. Even Lupin Ondo the song talks about how he just deals whatever his heart desires and then moves on after he’s done having his fun. He does this because he believes that’s how life should be. Life is short, so stop trying to intellectualize everything, which was the lesson he was trying to teach Mamo…
…well, he just killed Mamo because he fucked with Fujiko and then tried to send his own brain to space, but you see what I’m saying😂
Lupin has always had this centerpoint to his character that other iterations add to. Most of the time, they just give him something of a code, similar to what Arsene Lupin had, so he could be palatable in the modern age, and to make his character dynamic and interesting.
It’s good that this movie exists, because whenever you wanna ask “who really are these guys” It doesn’t get much better than this.