Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-397235-20150312002429

Junior's theme is incredibly beautiful; there's a certain majesty to him as a monster rather than the savagery of his dad. Of the two, he was a much more likeable character than his father, mainly because he can lose, so we want him to win, and he doesn't break things just to be an asshole.

The song from Defiance plays when one character learns his estranged wife has been killed by the Nazis and he tries to beat his head open against a tree. If you've not seen it, the film itself is fantastic.

The scene from Degeneration follows Leon rescuing Claire from a zombie-infested airport. The last time he'd actually seen her, so far as anyone knows, was seven years earlier, after they'd escaped Raccoon City, and they're talking about the choices they've made since then: Claire joined an environmental NGO dedicated to combating bioterror, while Leon (in order to futilely protect a little girl they rescued from the main antagonist of Resident Evil 2) became a soldier. Leon contrasts the choices he and Claire's big brother, Chris Redfield, have made, before telling her she wasn't wrong and she shouldn't be ashamed of where she is. The scene itself is well handled because it isn't especially sad; a lot of people ship Leon and Claire (I don't; it's abundantly clear Leon is always besotted with Ada Wong, for one thing), and this scene torpedos that pretty easily. They're just really good friends; in a lot of ways, Claire is closer to Leon then she is her brother, since he was there for her when Chris couldn't be.

While I'm irritated by unnecessary or unrealistic gore, it doesn't really disgust me. I think, however, a dead body is one of the saddest things you can see. To paraphrase Clint Eastwood, it's a terrible thing to kill someone: you take away everything they ever were and were ever going to be.