Throwing away your life like that is an insult to death. Do it 8 times, and Death gets so furious he comes to the world of the living to take the last one personally.
Think about it if you were Death itself and saw someone throw away their own life 8 times in a row when you’ve seen so many others value their lives but others on rare occasion commit suicide sometimes and have seen cruel and messed up stuff in your time as you’ve observed the mortals who’s death approach only to see an arrogant cat who thinks they are immortal just because they have more lives than usual you’d be angry at them and you’d probably want to kill him too.
i mean if ur 80yrs old ull just be accepting death wholeheartedly, uv lived a long life, ull probably have complications on the everything, ull bring a whole lot of memories on ur way to. . . whatever it is waiting for u in the other side. . . im pretty sure majority of those who are in their old age would probably be like: yeah. . . lets just get this over with
While I wouldn't welcome it, but I think I can come to term with it. It's not like I won't expect it or anything. Instead, imagine that you're 28 yrs old, at the height of your career, with awesome husband/wife at your side. Then you hear that whistle while the time is stopped. That would really really suck.
Even worse: imagine you’re some kid who lied about his age to fight in World War I, and as you charge across no man’s land a stray bullet catches you in the chest, and as you lay dying in the mud, sobbing for home, the chaos around you slowly fades as that whistle grows more loud and close, and that figure emerges from the fog coming for you
I like how Dreamworks didn't take the easy route and make Puss win Death, but instead Puss understands that Death is something he will have to face eventually.
I also love the fact that Death was taken very seriously and was never joked about. Every time Death shows up, the tone of the movie was always serious. They never allowed you to relax a bit with a quick joke but kept the tension up the entire time.
It is similar to the concept of the Deathly Hallows in Harry Potter- The master of Death isn't someone immortal and invincible, but someone who accepts the inevitability of death and that there are other things far worse than death. Here, Death broke his rules to punish Puss for his arrogance, but when Puss accepts the inevitable truth, it causes Death to stop his pursuit.
@dragoncaptain678 nah he definitely wanted to kill and torment him. He was cursing in spanish about it. He just has some honor and realized there was no point anymore.
@@Ramschatit’s because death is not evil in many religions and cultures. For example, Christians believe there is life after death. They do not fear death. Death is something beautiful. Or some South Americans, they celebrate the festival of the dead. The ancient Egyptians also thought of death as something that is a natural part of life, there is afterlife after death. No one fears death, except for atheists. Because for them after death comes nothing. So they fear the unknown.
@@truehappiness4U This is all true. And as an atheist, I really do think that death is something that science must overcome. Since I don't believe my soul is immortal unless my body and mind are.
These mad-lads showed blood in something that was primarily designed for children, and they got away with it. I love how scary and thoughtful all interactions with death were. They even nailed his "origins" in a slightly younger way without making him edgy or a "surfer bro".
@@01-aleriorayyaarifaisal91 you missed the point. It is never the children who complain about this type of stuff. Children NEED this type of "darkness" to understand that life is not all good, scary and shit has consequences.
Dreamworks has this repeating cycle where they flop, have a great movie, flop, flop, flop, flop, then another great movie. Inconsistency…or consistency at its finest. But the good movies are GOOD.
This movie actually had 3 great villains. One that was terrifying but fair, one that was misguided but redeemable, and one that was truly evil but hilariously entertaining. Pretty impressive from a storytelling standpoint.
@@memecliparchives2254*2 Villains and an Antagonist Death was blatantly evil. He didn’t feel it was fair Puss got 9 lives he could shrug and and not care about, when others only got 1. So, he decided ‘fuck the rules, I’m just gonna kill him early.’
@@kittensareawesome2789even one of puss lives said thats cheating when death said why not give up and make it easy and told him dont tell before he destroys one of the crystals
@@Quickscop3r4u YES! And honestly I still don’t get the ‘not a villain folk.’ He’s literally the only one who’s drawn blood in a children’s movie in, quite possibly, decades.
I'm conflicted on this. Technically, until the Wish, Puss is actually playing within the natural order. He is a cat, he has nine lives. Death is the one pushing things. The bigger thing is that Death is a part of a fairytale world and experiences death constantly. Think of the characters he has to take and the scenes he has had to witness. Puss is just making a joke of it all
@Carly Crays That's just it. It's not natural to have 9 lives. Cats are the only exception. Death feels this is unfair, and tbh, it is. Everyone cares about their life bc you only have one. When it's gone, it's gone forever. Then he sees this out of order cat just throwing lives to the wind as if it doesn't matter. It's almost as if he's mocking him. "Puss laughs in the face of death." If he had cared about all of his lives, this probably wouldn't have happened, but for 8 whole lives, Puss has proven again and again that he didn't care. He wants Puss to have an appreciation for the life he has, like others, bc if you don't, then why should you have that life in the first place? And think about it, death is literally death. If anyone is in charge of whether you go or stay, it's him.
Nah Death wasn't trying to teach ouss a lesson he actively wanted him dead because he didn't value his lives he only left him alone after Puss finally learned to value his last life and be a better person.
@@errettraul5393 He's def not teaching him a lesson. It's like a parent going "If you do t play with your toys, im going to throw them away", and then giving 8 lives of chances to get it right. I mean, it ended up with Puss learning a lesson, but that wasn't what was intended. Deaths whole gripe was about how Puss didn't care, so he doesn't deserve his last life. If Puss had always taken care in his lives, Death wouldn't be at his doorstep.
What I find most horrifying is when he walks through the Wishing Star’s death barrier, and summons the magic flame. That’s when you know he’s been holding back this entire time, and probably could’ve killed Boots in moments if he wanted to.
He could have easily killed Puss in the bar. Have you seen how huge his mouth is compared to Puss? Same freaking size. And he's strong as frick. You can see that when he casually destroys those crystals in the crystal cave, or pushes them over. Those things probably weigh hundreds of kilograms each, minimum, and he causally pushed one of them over, with one arm. If he could do that with those crystals, I don't want to know what he could have done to Puss barehanded, without those sickles.
Even in the final fight, it seems like he's still holding back. What with his comments about playing with his food, and the quite obvious part where he's not using any of his supernatural powers. We've seen him teleport all over the place, and he didn't do it once when he was fighting Puss. But he did it casually in the crystal cave, and when he left. If he started using his powers on that level, Puss would have been dead in seconds in the final fight. But Death was enjoying himself too much.
@@seanjustin2082 Yeah. Those crystals are probably clear quartz. If yes then each one is pretty dense and weighs anywhere from several hundred to several thousand kilograms each.
In all seriousnes though, I feel like the writers wanted us to know that he's actually death and not some pretender that adopted the alias. Like when he was "I'm death, and I don't mean it metaphorically, or rhetorically, or poetically, or theoretical, or any other fancy way. I'm death. Straight. Up."
What i like most about Death is the way they hint who he actually is from his lines to his actions. Almost everything said and done in their first encounter directly or indirectly had to do with death while never once being mentioned. (unless you count him pointing to the word "dead" on the wanted poster.) -Not being able to escape death no matter how much you try to beat it -the fear you admit when you stare into the face of death -Your life flashing before your eyes God i hope Dreamworks does this well with the 2nd installment.
Him pointing to “Dead” on the wanted poster was definitely intentional because every other major character is introduced with a wanted poster (or an unwanted poster in Perrito’s case)
the moment puss in boots realizes the wolf is death and the glass shatters, both literally and metaphorically. A small, understated detail that captures the genius of this movie
I'm really tired of people saying "Death wasnt a villain he was just doing his job" when it's very obvious and Death even admits he's breaking the natural order because Puss offended him
@@williamsmith9946 Which honestly tracks with fairy and folk tales concerning Death. People who insult him or the natural order will eventually draw his wrath. While you can argue it's overkill, for someone who holds the value of life sacred, nothing offended him more than someone who is blessed with multiple lives just to squander them. Not fair to Puss but for someone like Death I can totally understand his rage.
@@Igarappappa Yeah, even if it is unacceptable it is really an honest and understandable thing. Puss in a way laughs in both Death's and Life's faces. I honestly wonder if both Death and Life put aside any differences they had and decided to teach Puss a lesson.
That single drop of blood carries so much weight to it. They used it perfectly, because it's not just to show how dangerous the ennemy is, because it managed to make Puss bleed. It grounds Death into reality. This is an animated movie, they usually don't show blood, when this drop fell, it was a sign that this wasn't just a threat for the sake of the narrative, this was Puss facing death for real.
When I first saw that scene I thought it was going to be a joke, like having ketchup drop on him or something silly, I was surprised to see it was real blood and it made the seriousness of the situation sink in. It kind of set the tone for me for the rest of the movie. To not look at it just as a kids movie.
2:57 Death telling Boots to “Pick it up”. Thought he was saying it to scare and bully Boots but he actually telling him to fight for his life and not make it easy. A subtle life lesson
@testing_something But he is tho. At that point of time, Death just wanted to kill him bc he hated the fact that he didn't value life bc he had multiple
@@insultlk If he wanted to kill Boots so easy he wouldn’t have told him to pick up his weapon and fight. He only wanted to kill Boots because he had no respect for life but once he wanted to fight for it and stopped running he backed off
@@mackleven7he wanted to make puss scared when he died and even said that he was just going easy on puss when he rages in spanish saying “WHY THE HELL DID I PLAY WITH MY FOOD”
I just love the amount of inspirations they took to make this character. The wolf Fenrir in norse mithology is the creature that eats Odin, a god that, just like Puss, was thriving for inmortality. The scythes are taken from the classic grim reaper. The whistle was used in sacrificing rituals by ancient Mexicas, and the pose he makes with his arms crossed is the same as Anubis, the egiptian god of the underworld.
The “ominous whistle” is also a great Western motif; I can’t help but think of Omar Little’s whistling from The Wire as well. There is also a reference to the OG cinematic death personification, Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” from 1957, which created the motif of “a chess match with death”; during the match (which takes place over the course of the movie) a character attempts to essentially cheat and stall the game by knocking the pieces over, and as Death restores the pieces, he says “No one escapes me.” I also have a bit of “headcanon” that the way they phrase it, as a hint to his real identity, might be a bit of a nod to a similar hint in the first Red Dead Redemption, where the protagonist shouts “Damn you!” and the character commonly believed to be either a death personification or God responds “many have” giving confirmation that he’s more than just the “strange man” the story has led you to believe he is. Finally, I was skeptical about this, but someone noted his similarities to Malthael, the Angel of Death from Diablo 3, a hooded avatar of death who also wields dual handsickles, but I went back and watched the trailer for Reaper of Souls and some of the wolf’s poses wielding the sickles are so, like, shot-for-shot taken from it that it’s hard for me to imagine it wasn’t essentially the movie saying “yes, that was an influence”.
Actually most studios do have good writers. They just don’t like letting them cook There’s been this whole thing recently about writers deciding they’ve had it with this and going on strike
Dreamworks had created three memorable villains in this amazing film. Death was a force of nature with charisma and a sense of terror, Jack Horner was pure evil, yet very entertaining, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears were redeemable and sympathetic villains. This film is ❤🔥.
This villain design is an absolute masterpiece. He commands the screen when he’s present. Instills the feelings of anxiety and fear. How can other productions not get the hint that this is how you make a captivating villain or antagonist?
@Nick B maybe the tune wasn't to your liking but the whistle always stopped puss in his tracks. It allowed you to recognize the fear without even seeing where he is making it that much more fearful as you search frantically for him
@@citrizWell, in all honesty, Puss should in some way get injured in Shrek 5 and let that transition into his third and final movie, closing up his trilogy, stuck in a hospital, as he waits for Death to come out as his last visitor before he dies happily, and not scared.
@@somecallmejeremy I just imagined a really beaten up and bruised Puss in boots in a hospital bed with darkness surronding the corners of the screen with (most of) characters that he had a good relation to, with Death in his hood coming out of the crowd with his whistle as Puss smiles.
@@somecallmejeremy The fact dreamworks can just casually put in all sorts of different characters in Shrek like no issue, no complaints, but everytime some other company does it either ends in outrage, shock, or both.
Never gotten actual chills from an animated movie villain. This guy takes the cake, and I love how he has no intention of sugarcoating it. He’s death, straight up.
One thing I love about this scene is the inclusion of blood. If this scene originally didn't have blood, it wouldn't have hit as hard as it did but it's that inclusion blood despite how minimal it was it really drove home the point on how much of a threat Death actually was towards Puss in Boots.
Death's pupils turning white in certain shades is already a cool little detail, but what's really cool is that in bar before you get a clear view of it (at 2:38 when the lightning strikes), it shows up beforehand in far more subtle ways. First when he pulls out the sickles and blocks Puss's attack (it's there for a FRACTION of a second), after he throws Puss into the chair when the lightning flashes (it's hard to see from the angle and the pacing of that shot), and again when he splits the table and the lightning flashes again. That last one isn't as subtle, but it's also not stark enough for most people to immediately notice, not compared to when he mentions being able to smell fear and when he breaks into the bathroom.
I never noticed Death’s sickles can fold in on themselves. You can see it in the cave of souls at 4:33. Really cool design and I love how Death’s sickles have three different designs: normal, semi-circle, and the staff. The animators could have made Death’s sickles boring or plain, but they gave it so much character.
The way he tells Puss to pick up his sword is so haunting. I never thought you could make someone telling the hero to pick up their weapon actually sound/feel threatening and intimidating.
@@Vote_By_MailI could Google it, but I’m interested to know if I’m thinking of the right thing. Is that a reference to how the Greeks would put coins over the eyes of their dead for the ferryman?
Everytime he whistles, I whistle with him, Death was accurately portrayed, its not like he defeated him. He just acknowledged and respected him as the foe he cant defeat
Hand to say, I like the use of Death having a whistle in this movie. Every time you hear that whistle, you just know that Death is LITERALLY (not metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or thematically) right around the corner
That damn whistle gets me everytime, its just so eerie and offputting. Fun fact, I played a clip of that whistle over my phone and my sisters cat immediately left the room, bit of an odd coincidence that
It's discordant. Every scene Death is in, the sounds, the music, the actions...everything is skewed just slightly and it evokes discomfort...just as Death should.
That moment at 5:53 is arguably the scariest part of the film. Not that the rest of the scenes with Death aren’t already scary enough (specifically the first scene with him), but this moment was the first and only time that the rest of the main characters not only heard but SAW Death for themselves. It was at this moment that we realized that Death wasn’t some entity only visible to Puss or even a figment of his own imagination. Just like real life, Death is shown to be very real.
Not only. To be fair, they made clear that whoever is going to touch that kind of "magic barrier" would get instantly pulverized. While he was walking freely inside of it. Because death has no boundaries, you can't stop it
And I really love that they did that, and especially the joke from Kitty about "I thought you were just being melodramatic" because a lesser movie WOULD have done that, and it would've been LAME
What I love about the whistle is that it isn't just a means to make Puss' hair stand on end. No, the real intention was to make the audience's hair stand on end. At any point in the movie, you could just hear that deathly whistle. It was always when you least expected it, too invested in what else was going on, and you ALWAYS knew what it meant.
Honestly this antagonist was a true work of GENIUS. The way he spawned out of NOWHERE next to him is emblematic of how Death can come at any moment to any one regardless of what's happening in someone's life -- goes to show how fickle our mortalities are. Personifying the concept of Death with such depth and maturity is not an easy task, but the animators kicked out of the frkn ballpark with this one. Death is supposed to be terrifying, but it's also just and fair as everyone will eventually face it.
Here at 3:30 we see the coins over The Wolf’s eyes as he points his fingers in the “I’ve got my eyes on you” motion, but there’s actually a second meaning. The Greeks would often burry their dead with two coins on their eyes, in their hands, or in their mouth so the person’s soul could pay the fee to cross into the underworld. Just another subtle hint at who the wolf really is
8 glasses of shots 8 high notes in his whistling "No one's escaped me yet", instead of "no one's defeated me yet" He can kill gato, but he is not allowed to Offended by the idea of 9 lives Coins on the eyes - deadman's fare to the underworld Field fight scene - skull behind death Two one-handed scythes, same as Malthael (Death) 8 clues above
Making him bleed is a really good way to make the viewers unsure of future events for the entirety of the movie. I legitimately felt like Puss very well may die at any action-packed point, and thats a fresh take on animated characters. Usually the stakes feel so lackluster.
When I saw that my first reaction was: "Oh let me guess. That's wine dripping on his forehead?" When it was revealed to actually be blood I knew this movie was going to be something else.
You described the feeling perfectly. After hearing about the movie, I unfortunately had the Death reveal spoiled for me. Without the extra suspense having to wonder why the cloaked man was chasing Puss, I expected it to be like any other fantasy movie - entertaining, but with no real stakes; nothing *really* on the line. When the bell dropped over Puss, I could tell the movie was going to be a little dark - but after Puss started to bleed, I could tell the movie was going to be significantly more morbid than the Dreamworks I’m used to. How come no other animation studio actually sets up stakes like this? This is *brilliant!*
Every time. Every fricking time i watch scenes from this movie i can feel my spirit and faith returning. You guys behind the movie, You truly are the foundation of Dreamwork. Keeping the name alive.
0:55 I just noticed that the 8 glassess represents Puss's lives and he is drinking (living) his last glass (life). Damn. That detail is so good to discover.
This is what you can do when you're not Disney. He is one of the best characters I have seen in years. Thank you all for the likes. And the respectful back and forth in the replies. It's good to see people exchanging their thoughts without disrespecting each other.
@@womp47 Prince of Egypt, Shrek 1&2, and Kung Fu Panda were the only notable Dreamworks movies back in the 90s to late 2000s. With a few other okay other movies. Meanwhile Disney/Pixar in that era were making whole childhoods
I think what I love most about Death's visual design is that he's just so plain. From the very first moment you see him, he doesn't strike you as the literal personification of death, but there's still very clearly something wrong about him. There's no over-the top clothing designs. There's now flashy bits or skull embroidery like you would expect to see. It's just a plain black cloak and a pair of Sickles. And honestly, I think that's the best representation of Death I've ever seen.
I hadn't seen anything before than and actually assumed it was death. I couldn't really say why...I think it's the fact that he is drinking with the guy he is there to take. That's a very common trope. But they still pulled off that trope very well it seems.
The twilight zone: death appears as both a hitchhiker trying to help guide a woman who passed away in a car accident on her way to California Death appears as a man in a suit who is thought to be a census taker until touching a flower causing it to wither and die only armed with a book and a pen to keep an appointment Then this form of death Those are my personal choices
I like the representation of Death in the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman (and probably the show?) Not necessarily the look, which is similarly NOT unique, but her philosophy and how she carries out her duty.
They have to do that to avoid copyright claims/strikes. They have to break it up, often alter scenes such as mirroring the footage or altering audio, adjusting video size, adding other background elements, stuff like that.
@@SergeyPupkoMusic I know, but it doesn't make it less irritating yknow? I can live with mirrored or cropped footage but the random skips in dialogue and fights bug me like no other lol
Something interesting I read; Death’s whistle is exactly 8 beats long throughout the movie, signifying Pusses’ 8 lives he lost and is on his last. When Death confronts him in the last scene it changes to 9 beats, signifying that Death has finally decided to take his last life.
Apparently it’s in a minor key to make it sound menacing but by the end when puss confronts his fears it changes to a major key to show the wolf isn’t a threat
I love to imagine that originally death was merely a watcher, as they are for everyone, but after a while of seeing puss waste so many lives he genuinely just got pissed off and so straight up just said "this some bullshit". Crazy to think Puss in Boots pissed off and was hunted down by a literal force of nature
Just… how? How did dreamworks actually make a movie this good?! I went back to watch it in theaters 3 times! And every single time, it got better. Death in particular is nothing short of a masterpiece. Within 2 minutes, you immediately respect his presence and understand that he’s not a joke or some rival for Puss. He’s a force that is capable of killing him in seconds if he wanted to, but he chooses to play around and torment puss just cause he can. And that’s a terrifying thought. Even the scene where he puts the coins in his eyes (the first proper hint that he’s death in my opinion) is like he’s saying; “run all you like, I can easily catch up whenever I want to”. god I love this movie!
The coins in the eyes was a reference to ancient Greek tradition, putting gold over the eyes of the dead to pay the ferryman for passage across the River Styx.
In his introductory scene, he shows agitation when Puss says that he laughs in the face of death. Before then, he holds an empty milk glass in his hand with Puss' reflection in his hand after Puss had already consumed eight of them. In fact, just before he appears, a candle gets blown out, just like when the doctor told Puss that he died. They got a lot of clues setting up the reveal!
@@lugbzurg8987 Also how death just appeared beside of Puss was a hint. As if he came from thin air. No sound of a moving chair, just the whistle and poof he sits at the bar. Like a ghost who just materialized.
1:08. Notice how the Wolf slowly scratches the poster with his claw. That's the closest thing we get to see him angry throughout the movie, a subtle way of saying: "You won't be laughing soon enough. I promise." That's is such a amazing detail, I love it.
It's also just such a fun bit of hindsight to realize - Puss brags that he "laughs in the face of Death" *to Death himself,* who he literally just laughed at to his face.
3:23 I really love this part in particular, imo the most chilling part of the whole movie. Puss in Boots is now back where he belongs in a life of adventure, but now there is a price for that choice that will hunt him down forever. After all those pathetic sheltered months, Puss never forgot who he truly was And apparently……neither did he
1:04 I love how Death gets noticeably frustrated here when Puss says he laughs in the face of Death as shown by his claw scraping the paper, really subtle.
I've rewatched this move several times just to catch the little hints before the reveal (Good God he is even in the crowd during the giant fight). The paper scraping was one of the first I caught and also one of my favorites.
@@ThoughtsReflected The whistle tune plays right before Puss gets crushed by the bell, but it's mixed in with the audience cheering. Very subtle details make this better with each rewatch
One detail I loved about the movie is how they used/portrayed Death's whistling. Throughout the movie, it comes off as haunting and chilling as he follows Puss. But in the end, after Puss accepts his own mortality and stops fearing death, that changes. And as they part ways, the final whistle Death gives is almost calming and comforting. It really does fit the tone of 'facing one's mortality' that the movie gives off. To someone who would be afraid of dying, the thought of death would be terrifying. But to someone he would accept it when it is their time to go, death would be almost welcoming in a way.
I just love the line "everyone think they'll be the one to defeat me, but no one escaped me yet." It hits ten times harder after you realize the wolf is the death himself not just some bounty hunter.
I love how the detail at 1:04. When Puss says he "laughs in the face of death", you see the Wolf's claw drag and tear into the bounty poster in anger as he clenches his fist. It's a great hint at to who the Wolf is, to see the quiet fury that was visible from the very first scene the Wolf was in. The disrespect given to death, and how often we run from it instead of using it as an adversary to inspire us, is such an important lesson, and was conveyed very well through Death's character serving as the antagonist.
The animation and character design is fantastic. The way Death's eyes flash, his simple outfit, his choice of weapon, when they ride away in the wagon and his eyes reflect like coins, the wolf skull that appears in the cracks of the past life as he shattered it, even the fur on his face is darker where his skull is, they all come together to create a truly daunting antagonist.
The eyes looked like coins because he put coins in his eyes. This is a reference to the culture of ancient Greece. The Greeks placed coins on the eyes of the dead before burial so that they could pay Charon for taking them across the Styx to Hades.
I love how Dreamworks actually put some really hard lesson in the movie. Something that literally all of us will have to accept eventually -- to come to term with your mortality.
I still believe Death Wolf is the one of the most metal, iconic antagonists to exist. A chilling personification of mortality, he embodies the cunning and sadistic traits that are often ascribed to death itself. Even his whistle and it's discordant harmony is just chilling since you know he's right around the corner. When I watched the first time, seeing him walking through the barrier without being vaporized just shows how he's not a force to be trifled with. Yet, within this stark character, you see a paradox, making it even more complex. His sadistic tendencies are juxtaposed against a deep-seated respect for life by trying to exact retribution on Puss in Boots, a character who has shown a lamentable disregard for the nine lives he's been granted. Respect Death. I love this movie, and how it portrayed Death. *"Pick it up."*
Something that's truly genius about this scene, is that opening whistle... in a cinema screening, that whistle is coded to come from all of the surround speakers. it's literally everywhere. And what does puss do when he hears this? Looks up and around confused. he can't just hear that it's coming next to him because the noise isn't next to him it's all around him. This movie is so good.
I love how in the first encounter Puss was really unnerved until Death put the wanted poster on the bar then he’s was like “oh your just here to kill me, that I can deal with.”
I would add, up to that point, he was just behaving like a creepy fan. Puss thanks him, turns around and sits a little further, as a celebrity would do in such a situation.
i'm a huge fan of the way Death's scythe was reimagined here. You usually see this one long scythe, a wide range weapon kinda. Here, Death has two sickles instead, fighting in close range and has such a cool visual effect because of that!
A scythe was used to reap wheat and such. Heard of the reaper? Here he is using the asian variant, a sickle. It's kind of an older variant with a similar purpose. You can tell they learned a whole lot from japanese animation too, in the fighting particularly. But deaths scythe never was intended as a weapon really. He just reaps lives, like grass.
What i love most about this type of character is the fact he is not a bad guy or a good guy. He is just doing his job of keeping the natural order of things no matter how important the characters are. Most of all he literally just plays around knowing full well he could end it in a instant but rather giving them a learning experience what fear really is.
I love how he’s not technically the bad guy, he’s just death itself. The pure chills that go down your spine every time you see or hear him… they did a great job with this one.
Nah, he’s definitely the bad guy here. Puss still has one life left, and death is trying to take it from him prematurely, all while maliciously torturing Puss the whole time. He is stepping past the boundaries of his office as death to take out his frustrations on a mortal who is still alive. He really only stops because Puss learning the value of his final life takes the fun out of the hunt.
@@sanelyinsane8497he was teaching him a valuable lesson. Sure, he was sadistic about it, but he’s Death 🤷🏾♂️ Also, like he said, he’s really not a fan of anyone having more than one life.
@@sanelyinsane8497 And Puss being egotistical and mocking Death makes him somehow the "good" guy? The only difference with Death is that he doesn't pretend.
Him just straight *walking* through the star fire stuff, not even noticing or anything, was the biggest fricking power move I've ever seen in a dreamworks movie.
"I'm death straight up!" Such a solid line from an insanely well crafted and executed antagonist. Rest of hollywood this is how you make a great villain.
1:26 Just keep in mind the amount of speed Death used here: He disarmed Puss using what it seems to be one of his sickles and resheathed them in an instant as if to appear that he hadn't moved at all. Makes it all the more clear how much Death was playing with his food.
no one is food to Death until it's their time to be dead. At this point puss was not meant to be dead yet. Imo, Death was just trying to give puss lesson to value his last live, as he said, Death wanted to cheat puss death, but Death cannot actually cheat someone's death. That is why Death keep chasing Puss to prevent him getting another 9 lives back which he finds it absurd, so Puss can value the lives he has gotten, otherwise he would be ended like he was, playing with his 9 lives.
@@romian37 that's not true dude, he can clearly hurt the living he just wanted more of that fear it's basically a shoot to his dopamine receptors so the more he fears him the better the pay off but he got too greedy and puss n boots started to not fear him and cherished his life so both reasons to end his life were crossed off he had no reason to in the end
In all honesty, 3:24 is the scariest scene for me, the way Death just stands in the crows whistling makes it unnerving, especially the fact that nobody acknowledges him except for puss What makes this scary is the fact that the people are waving and cheering alongside him.
"And I don't mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or theoretically or any other fancy way. I'm death. Straight. Up..." That line was cold af.....💀
6:00 I really love this scene, everyone saw a person being disintegrated by the wall and almost lost one of them for the same reason, then out of nowhere, they hear a whistle and see someone walk through as if it was nothing, just to show the Wolf is no ordinary person
Did Jack's henchwoman actually get vaporized by it? I just took it as her getting sucked out of the perimeter of the star's barrier and falling to her death, especially when Baby wasn't instantly vaporized and lasted a few seconds (while still suspended in midair OUTSIDE the star's barrier, mind you) before Goldie pulled him back in from the outside. Just my thoughts and observations on it
That second where he places a pair of coins over his eyes before pointing straight at Puss like he can somehow still see him was my favourite moment of the movie. Even without the Charon reference, it’s such a perfect way to state that absolutely nothing can stop him without using a single word.
A sequel to a spin-off of a Shrek sequel had no business being this good.
the original spin off was mid as hell too, there is no way this should have happened
@@alephnull3535it was good enough wdym?
@@MorbiusBlueBalls I'm saying the sequel is better than it had any right to be.
so god damn true
this sequel of a movie which had humpty dumpty as its first villian had no business being this good@@alephnull3535
What does this bs statement even mean? Are all spin-offs supposed to suck according to you?
I love that the 9 lives thing at best annoys Death but the fact that Puss didn’t value them makes him furious
Puss apologists: BuT, BuT, BuT, it's PuSS' LiFe WaHhHH
Yep, and i love how he got pissed that he indirectly teached puss how to value his life, instead of just chasing and killing him like he wanted lmao
Throwing away your life like that is an insult to death. Do it 8 times, and Death gets so furious he comes to the world of the living to take the last one personally.
Think about it if you were Death itself and saw someone throw away their own life 8 times in a row when you’ve seen so many others value their lives but others on rare occasion commit suicide sometimes and have seen cruel and messed up stuff in your time as you’ve observed the mortals who’s death approach only to see an arrogant cat who thinks they are immortal just because they have more lives than usual you’d be angry at them and you’d probably want to kill him too.
@@thechristiangamer2170 i got an aneurysm, trying to read your sentence. You even bothered with a dot in the end. How funny
Imagine being 80 years old and chillin on the rocking chair and you suddenly hear the whistle😳
For me, I imagined myself walking in a dark forest and you heard a mysterious whistle that gives you the goosebumps.
i mean if ur 80yrs old ull just be accepting death wholeheartedly, uv lived a long life, ull probably have complications on the everything, ull bring a whole lot of memories on ur way to. . . whatever it is waiting for u in the other side. . . im pretty sure majority of those who are in their old age would probably be like: yeah. . . lets just get this over with
While I wouldn't welcome it, but I think I can come to term with it. It's not like I won't expect it or anything. Instead, imagine that you're 28 yrs old, at the height of your career, with awesome husband/wife at your side. Then you hear that whistle while the time is stopped.
That would really really suck.
Man for someone who lived to 2023 80 years kinda stinks
Even worse: imagine you’re some kid who lied about his age to fight in World War I, and as you charge across no man’s land a stray bullet catches you in the chest, and as you lay dying in the mud, sobbing for home, the chaos around you slowly fades as that whistle grows more loud and close, and that figure emerges from the fog coming for you
No one:
Some psycho at DreamWorks: so what if we lowkey made this a horror movie
Me.
The madman! 😂
9 Deaths at PussNBoots
😂😂😂😂
You haven’t seen fear if this scares you
I like how Dreamworks didn't take the easy route and make Puss win Death, but instead Puss understands that Death is something he will have to face eventually.
I also love the fact that Death was taken very seriously and was never joked about. Every time Death shows up, the tone of the movie was always serious. They never allowed you to relax a bit with a quick joke but kept the tension up the entire time.
@@Ironica82 Something that's been missing in movies and kids shows for a long time.
@@LJosephMega Why I disliked marvel movies, they make jokes in serious situatiuons, and that just ruins it.
@@MasterGhostfdo they do it in Guardians 3 though? All i hear about that film is that its very good.
It is similar to the concept of the Deathly Hallows in Harry Potter- The master of Death isn't someone immortal and invincible, but someone who accepts the inevitability of death and that there are other things far worse than death.
Here, Death broke his rules to punish Puss for his arrogance, but when Puss accepts the inevitable truth, it causes Death to stop his pursuit.
What I loved most about this villain is he won, he taught Puss the lesson he should’ve always known. Respect death, respect the life we yet live.
And showed that he isn't really a bad guy. Instead as a being who wanted to teach him a lesson the hard way
@dragoncaptain678 nah he definitely wanted to kill and torment him. He was cursing in spanish about it. He just has some honor and realized there was no point anymore.
@@dragoncaptain678 Everyone wants to imagien death as not being evil. But the fact is he just LOVES the smell of fear.
@@Ramschatit’s because death is not evil in many religions and cultures. For example, Christians believe there is life after death. They do not fear death. Death is something beautiful. Or some South Americans, they celebrate the festival of the dead. The ancient Egyptians also thought of death as something that is a natural part of life, there is afterlife after death. No one fears death, except for atheists. Because for them after death comes nothing. So they fear the unknown.
@@truehappiness4U This is all true. And as an atheist, I really do think that death is something that science must overcome. Since I don't believe my soul is immortal unless my body and mind are.
These mad-lads showed blood in something that was primarily designed for children, and they got away with it.
I love how scary and thoughtful all interactions with death were.
They even nailed his "origins" in a slightly younger way without making him edgy or a "surfer bro".
because the blood is minimal and looks like ketchups
@@King_Noob. If you saw that blood and didn't say "oh shit" you really are the king of the noobs
You know. Children can handle little bit of dark stuff if the the end is happy ending
@@King_Noob. This reply is completely silly. You have no understandings of "children" movies in these days.
@@01-aleriorayyaarifaisal91 you missed the point. It is never the children who complain about this type of stuff. Children NEED this type of "darkness" to understand that life is not all good, scary and shit has consequences.
How did Dreamworks come from this masterpiece to Kungfu Panda 4 and Megamind 2?
cus they are just trash cashgrabs
What is this megamind 2?
No such thing where I come from.
@@dragondraws5458 ohh its coming alright
Dreamworks has this repeating cycle where they flop, have a great movie, flop, flop, flop, flop, then another great movie. Inconsistency…or consistency at its finest. But the good movies are GOOD.
Panda was good, alien bad: 💪 😢💦 💦
You know they've successfully write a terrifying character when he's only 10 minutes on screen and made us hold our breath
Communism
@@DrawingDrop10 Wait that actually makes sense
Idk who needs to hear this but don't hold your breath for 10 minutes. It ends bad.
Funny enough he has *always* been there
I concur
This movie actually had 3 great villains. One that was terrifying but fair, one that was misguided but redeemable, and one that was truly evil but hilariously entertaining. Pretty impressive from a storytelling standpoint.
Not to mention very refreshing from the usual “misunderstood” justifiable villain which isn’t a bad thing there’s just way too many of em
* 2 antagonists and 1 villain
@@memecliparchives2254*2 Villains and an Antagonist
Death was blatantly evil. He didn’t feel it was fair Puss got 9 lives he could shrug and and not care about, when others only got 1. So, he decided ‘fuck the rules, I’m just gonna kill him early.’
@@kittensareawesome2789even one of puss lives said thats cheating when death said why not give up and make it easy and told him dont tell before he destroys one of the crystals
@@Quickscop3r4u YES! And honestly I still don’t get the ‘not a villain folk.’ He’s literally the only one who’s drawn blood in a children’s movie in, quite possibly, decades.
That line, "I'm death, STRAIGHT. UP." Actual chills. Every time.
3:27 "He's just standing there........MENACINGLY"
You know a movie's amazing when they made an antagonist that just shows up for 10 minutes of the movie feel like a constant, terrifying presence
real
Well, the irl death is like that.
Like terrorblade in the Dota anime…what a voice actor…it makes so much difference
We fear death all the time
cause it might be eternal, for all you know@@alexjavi7849
What I love the most is that he's not technically a villain. He's not a "bad guy". He just wants natural order as a force of nature.
I'm conflicted on this. Technically, until the Wish, Puss is actually playing within the natural order. He is a cat, he has nine lives. Death is the one pushing things. The bigger thing is that Death is a part of a fairytale world and experiences death constantly. Think of the characters he has to take and the scenes he has had to witness. Puss is just making a joke of it all
@Carly Crays That's just it. It's not natural to have 9 lives. Cats are the only exception. Death feels this is unfair, and tbh, it is. Everyone cares about their life bc you only have one. When it's gone, it's gone forever. Then he sees this out of order cat just throwing lives to the wind as if it doesn't matter. It's almost as if he's mocking him. "Puss laughs in the face of death." If he had cared about all of his lives, this probably wouldn't have happened, but for 8 whole lives, Puss has proven again and again that he didn't care. He wants Puss to have an appreciation for the life he has, like others, bc if you don't, then why should you have that life in the first place? And think about it, death is literally death. If anyone is in charge of whether you go or stay, it's him.
Nah Death wasn't trying to teach ouss a lesson he actively wanted him dead because he didn't value his lives he only left him alone after Puss finally learned to value his last life and be a better person.
@@errettraul5393 Also, I think this was meant for the other post, cuz I mentioned nothing of a lesson learned here
@@errettraul5393 He's def not teaching him a lesson. It's like a parent going "If you do t play with your toys, im going to throw them away", and then giving 8 lives of chances to get it right. I mean, it ended up with Puss learning a lesson, but that wasn't what was intended. Deaths whole gripe was about how Puss didn't care, so he doesn't deserve his last life. If Puss had always taken care in his lives, Death wouldn't be at his doorstep.
What I find most horrifying is when he walks through the Wishing Star’s death barrier, and summons the magic flame. That’s when you know he’s been holding back this entire time, and probably could’ve killed Boots in moments if he wanted to.
He could have easily killed Puss in the bar. Have you seen how huge his mouth is compared to Puss? Same freaking size. And he's strong as frick. You can see that when he casually destroys those crystals in the crystal cave, or pushes them over. Those things probably weigh hundreds of kilograms each, minimum, and he causally pushed one of them over, with one arm. If he could do that with those crystals, I don't want to know what he could have done to Puss barehanded, without those sickles.
Even in the final fight, it seems like he's still holding back. What with his comments about playing with his food, and the quite obvious part where he's not using any of his supernatural powers. We've seen him teleport all over the place, and he didn't do it once when he was fighting Puss. But he did it casually in the crystal cave, and when he left. If he started using his powers on that level, Puss would have been dead in seconds in the final fight. But Death was enjoying himself too much.
@@ssoltau9318also he shatters one of the crystals just by saying that he is death while staring at Puss
@@seanjustin2082 Yeah. Those crystals are probably clear quartz. If yes then each one is pretty dense and weighs anywhere from several hundred to several thousand kilograms each.
In all seriousnes though, I feel like the writers wanted us to know that he's actually death and not some pretender that adopted the alias. Like when he was "I'm death, and I don't mean it metaphorically, or rhetorically, or poetically, or theoretical, or any other fancy way. I'm death. Straight. Up."
What i like most about Death is the way they hint who he actually is from his lines to his actions.
Almost everything said and done in their first encounter directly or indirectly had to do with death while never once being mentioned. (unless you count him pointing to the word "dead" on the wanted poster.)
-Not being able to escape death no matter how much you try to beat it
-the fear you admit when you stare into the face of death
-Your life flashing before your eyes
God i hope Dreamworks does this well with the 2nd installment.
Isn’t this the 2nd Installment? Pretty sure there was another Puss n’ Boots movie before this one.
Him pointing to “Dead” on the wanted poster was definitely intentional because every other major character is introduced with a wanted poster (or an unwanted poster in Perrito’s case)
This IS the 2nd installment bro
I love the crystal cave scene. Death just tells him that he's not on a job, and doesn't care about natural process. It's personal
the moment puss in boots realizes the wolf is death and the glass shatters, both literally and metaphorically. A small, understated detail that captures the genius of this movie
I'm really tired of people saying "Death wasnt a villain he was just doing his job" when it's very obvious and Death even admits he's breaking the natural order because Puss offended him
@@williamsmith9946 Which honestly tracks with fairy and folk tales concerning Death. People who insult him or the natural order will eventually draw his wrath. While you can argue it's overkill, for someone who holds the value of life sacred, nothing offended him more than someone who is blessed with multiple lives just to squander them. Not fair to Puss but for someone like Death I can totally understand his rage.
@@Igarappappa Yeah, even if it is unacceptable it is really an honest and understandable thing. Puss in a way laughs in both Death's and Life's faces. I honestly wonder if both Death and Life put aside any differences they had and decided to teach Puss a lesson.
I wonder witch one of those lives had his adventures with Shrek?
That single drop of blood carries so much weight to it. They used it perfectly, because it's not just to show how dangerous the ennemy is, because it managed to make Puss bleed. It grounds Death into reality. This is an animated movie, they usually don't show blood, when this drop fell, it was a sign that this wasn't just a threat for the sake of the narrative, this was Puss facing death for real.
Before this encounter, Puss bragged that he has never been touched by a blade.
When I first saw that scene I thought it was going to be a joke, like having ketchup drop on him or something silly, I was surprised to see it was real blood and it made the seriousness of the situation sink in. It kind of set the tone for me for the rest of the movie. To not look at it just as a kids movie.
Well said. Didn't really think about that but its true
It also shows he's a dangerous villain because Puss has never been touched by a blade
What you said in thia comment is very beautoful like reading a jk rowling book
How the fuck did we go from Humpty Dumpty being the villain to death
6:10 THAT WHISTLE REMIX IS SO GOOD
2:57 Death telling Boots to “Pick it up”. Thought he was saying it to scare and bully Boots but he actually telling him to fight for his life and not make it easy. A subtle life lesson
@@peppino999 nah
@testing_something But he is tho. At that point of time, Death just wanted to kill him bc he hated the fact that he didn't value life bc he had multiple
@@insultlk If he wanted to kill Boots so easy he wouldn’t have told him to pick up his weapon and fight. He only wanted to kill Boots because he had no respect for life but once he wanted to fight for it and stopped running he backed off
666th like 💀
@@mackleven7he wanted to make puss scared when he died and even said that he was just going easy on puss when he rages in spanish saying “WHY THE HELL DID I PLAY WITH MY FOOD”
I just love the amount of inspirations they took to make this character. The wolf Fenrir in norse mithology is the creature that eats Odin, a god that, just like Puss, was thriving for inmortality. The scythes are taken from the classic grim reaper. The whistle was used in sacrificing rituals by ancient Mexicas, and the pose he makes with his arms crossed is the same as Anubis, the egiptian god of the underworld.
Excellent catches.
The “ominous whistle” is also a great Western motif; I can’t help but think of Omar Little’s whistling from The Wire as well. There is also a reference to the OG cinematic death personification, Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” from 1957, which created the motif of “a chess match with death”; during the match (which takes place over the course of the movie) a character attempts to essentially cheat and stall the game by knocking the pieces over, and as Death restores the pieces, he says “No one escapes me.” I also have a bit of “headcanon” that the way they phrase it, as a hint to his real identity, might be a bit of a nod to a similar hint in the first Red Dead Redemption, where the protagonist shouts “Damn you!” and the character commonly believed to be either a death personification or God responds “many have” giving confirmation that he’s more than just the “strange man” the story has led you to believe he is. Finally, I was skeptical about this, but someone noted his similarities to Malthael, the Angel of Death from Diablo 3, a hooded avatar of death who also wields dual handsickles, but I went back and watched the trailer for Reaper of Souls and some of the wolf’s poses wielding the sickles are so, like, shot-for-shot taken from it that it’s hard for me to imagine it wasn’t essentially the movie saying “yes, that was an influence”.
Those would be sickles basically just handheld Scythes.
And the coins over the eyes!
and also the wolf is used as a force of evil through many fairy tales like red riding hood and three little pigs
5:15
“I’m Death.. Straight up”
After watching Kungfu panda 4, I wonder wtf dreamwork is doing. From the best to whatever kung fu panda 4 is
Dreamworks was always inconsistent, it's either absolute bangers or hot garbage, no in-between.
Чтобы сделать что то хорошее вроде кота в сапогах нужно заработать денег на чемто вроде кунг фу панды 4
The director is at fault for Kung Fu Panda 4 since they chose to not make it serious, unlike what someone else wanted for the script.
This is what happens when you have good writters, designers, ect. for a movie/story. I hope they keep this up
I sincerely hope they do. Hit me up if something good comes from these writers, please!
Actually most studios do have good writers. They just don’t like letting them cook
There’s been this whole thing recently about writers deciding they’ve had it with this and going on strike
They announced another trolls movie....
the story was actually pretty boring
@@jakabok226 homie did you watch the movie?
Dreamworks just made an *animated pyschological thriller-action-drama* movie. And it's a masterpiece
They should really do more of these plot twists! The comedic genre interrupted by a thrill twist really throws one off!
Let's not forget that it's also a spin-off of the Shrek series!
people really making up words just to stick them randomly on something. no it is not
It was mediocre at best. I cringed at most of the lines.
Finally someone who isn’t d rider of every movie
When you pause the video but still hear the whis
Dreamworks had created three memorable villains in this amazing film. Death was a force of nature with charisma and a sense of terror, Jack Horner was pure evil, yet very entertaining, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears were redeemable and sympathetic villains. This film is ❤🔥.
Goldilocks and her family aren't evil, so she's not a bad guy or a villain
@@mr.darkassassin7997I think by villain they mean antagonist
This villain design is an absolute masterpiece. He commands the screen when he’s present. Instills the feelings of anxiety and fear. How can other productions not get the hint that this is how you make a captivating villain or antagonist?
the whistling is dumb but yea
@Nick B Really bad take. Not saying you can't see it that way, just not true even the slightest.
@Nick B maybe the tune wasn't to your liking but the whistle always stopped puss in his tracks. It allowed you to recognize the fear without even seeing where he is making it that much more fearful as you search frantically for him
@@gregmicheals6231 Don't doubt that some people just hate how good he is at being bad
The rest of Hollywood is just concerned with making the villains as white as possible
You know you're in the end game when the whistle turns orchestral. Exceptional to be honest.
If anyone dies in Shrek 5, maybe we'll get an orchestral rendition or nod to Death's theme in the soundtrack somewhere.
@@citrizshut up daddy
@@citrizWell, in all honesty, Puss should in some way get injured in Shrek 5 and let that transition into his third and final movie, closing up his trilogy, stuck in a hospital, as he waits for Death to come out as his last visitor before he dies happily, and not scared.
@@somecallmejeremy I just imagined a really beaten up and bruised Puss in boots in a hospital bed with darkness surronding the corners of the screen with (most of) characters that he had a good relation to, with Death in his hood coming out of the crowd with his whistle as Puss smiles.
@@somecallmejeremy The fact dreamworks can just casually put in all sorts of different characters in Shrek like no issue, no complaints, but everytime some other company does it either ends in outrage, shock, or both.
I love that low droning bass that plays as Deaths shadow grows underneath the door. The music surrounding Death was haunting. 3:13
3:48: Someone discovers definitive cancer cure
4:00: The government and Pharma Lobby
Cancer cannot have a definitive cure any more than all viruses can be cured
Never gotten actual chills from an animated movie villain. This guy takes the cake, and I love how he has no intention of sugarcoating it. He’s death, straight up.
What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
@@ktakashismith Was looking for this comment, lol.
Antagonist*
@@ktakashismith what do I stand to win? Everything.
Dont think you’ve watched much animated films if you’ve never ever got chills from an animated villain
One thing I love about this scene is the inclusion of blood. If this scene originally didn't have blood, it wouldn't have hit as hard as it did but it's that inclusion blood despite how minimal it was it really drove home the point on how much of a threat Death actually was towards Puss in Boots.
Especially since Puss sung a song about never being touched by a blade then a blade touches him evidenced by the blood
I was like “wait was this movie PG or PG13”
@@blazaybla22 later... are we SURE this isn't rated R!?!
@@blazaybla22 im pretty sure its pg 13
@@Kettvnen no, it somehow kept a PG rating
Death's pupils turning white in certain shades is already a cool little detail, but what's really cool is that in bar before you get a clear view of it (at 2:38 when the lightning strikes), it shows up beforehand in far more subtle ways. First when he pulls out the sickles and blocks Puss's attack (it's there for a FRACTION of a second), after he throws Puss into the chair when the lightning flashes (it's hard to see from the angle and the pacing of that shot), and again when he splits the table and the lightning flashes again. That last one isn't as subtle, but it's also not stark enough for most people to immediately notice, not compared to when he mentions being able to smell fear and when he breaks into the bathroom.
I never noticed Death’s sickles can fold in on themselves. You can see it in the cave of souls at 4:33. Really cool design and I love how Death’s sickles have three different designs: normal, semi-circle, and the staff. The animators could have made Death’s sickles boring or plain, but they gave it so much character.
The way he tells Puss to pick up his sword is so haunting. I never thought you could make someone telling the hero to pick up their weapon actually sound/feel threatening and intimidating.
Pick it up. Pick. It. Up.
Best part was the coins over the eyes. That was stone cold.🥶
Thank god they didn't ruin it by spoon-feeding an explanation to the audience.
@@Vote_By_MailI could Google it, but I’m interested to know if I’m thinking of the right thing. Is that a reference to how the Greeks would put coins over the eyes of their dead for the ferryman?
It scared me more that he didn't change the volume or intensity in his voice when saying it. Just the same, calm request. Haunting af
@DavidVandemark yup, it was to pay for passage on Charon boat.
you know whats really fascinating to me? the fact that i get goosebumps literally every time the whistling starts. thats how good they made this.
Me too, and I haven't even seen the movie yet.
Everytime he whistles, I whistle with him, Death was accurately portrayed, its not like he defeated him. He just acknowledged and respected him as the foe he cant defeat
This and TheProwler's theme in spiderman
@@mort0303
Yeah, both themes are legendary
@@justinharvey7398 bro same, i really dont care for spoilers so ive seen COUNTLESS edits of Death and Puss and i get chills everytime Death whistles.
1:24 blud really think he’s him 💀
dude, deaths character design is an actual 11/10. as an artist i really appreciate this
Bro movie/series name please
@@tharun_066 this movie? Idk i think its puss in boots
@@tharun_066Puss and Boots: The last wish
Hand to say, I like the use of Death having a whistle in this movie. Every time you hear that whistle, you just know that Death is LITERALLY (not metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or thematically) right around the corner
Instant chills
That damn whistle gets me everytime, its just so eerie and offputting. Fun fact, I played a clip of that whistle over my phone and my sisters cat immediately left the room, bit of an odd coincidence that
It's discordant. Every scene Death is in, the sounds, the music, the actions...everything is skewed just slightly and it evokes discomfort...just as Death should.
@@Lorekeeper72 *Cat:* Not that sound again. I already met that guy, like, four times. He creeps me out.
I see what you did there😂
That moment at 5:53 is arguably the scariest part of the film. Not that the rest of the scenes with Death aren’t already scary enough (specifically the first scene with him), but this moment was the first and only time that the rest of the main characters not only heard but SAW Death for themselves.
It was at this moment that we realized that Death wasn’t some entity only visible to Puss or even a figment of his own imagination.
Just like real life, Death is shown to be very real.
I think it was the super magically saturated environment of the wishing star that made death visible to the others.
Literally gave me goosebumps 😐
might be because they're inside of a wishing star that's going to explode and they're all close to death.
Not only. To be fair, they made clear that whoever is going to touch that kind of "magic barrier" would get instantly pulverized. While he was walking freely inside of it. Because death has no boundaries, you can't stop it
And I really love that they did that, and especially the joke from Kitty about "I thought you were just being melodramatic" because a lesser movie WOULD have done that, and it would've been LAME
What I love about the whistle is that it isn't just a means to make Puss' hair stand on end. No, the real intention was to make the audience's hair stand on end. At any point in the movie, you could just hear that deathly whistle. It was always when you least expected it, too invested in what else was going on, and you ALWAYS knew what it meant.
Honestly this antagonist was a true work of GENIUS. The way he spawned out of NOWHERE next to him is emblematic of how Death can come at any moment to any one regardless of what's happening in someone's life -- goes to show how fickle our mortalities are. Personifying the concept of Death with such depth and maturity is not an easy task, but the animators kicked out of the frkn ballpark with this one. Death is supposed to be terrifying, but it's also just and fair as everyone will eventually face it.
is this your lack lustered answer or what you think death is? Death isn't terrifying it's the beginning something new.
Here at 3:30 we see the coins over The Wolf’s eyes as he points his fingers in the “I’ve got my eyes on you” motion, but there’s actually a second meaning. The Greeks would often burry their dead with two coins on their eyes, in their hands, or in their mouth so the person’s soul could pay the fee to cross into the underworld. Just another subtle hint at who the wolf really is
Also a very nice way to show of that Death told him "This one is on the House"
8 glasses of shots
8 high notes in his whistling
"No one's escaped me yet", instead of "no one's defeated me yet"
He can kill gato, but he is not allowed to
Offended by the idea of 9 lives
Coins on the eyes - deadman's fare to the underworld
Field fight scene - skull behind death
Two one-handed scythes, same as Malthael (Death)
8 clues above
@@RawrrrfearmeOH MY GOSH I’M GETTING SO MANY FOURTH GRADE VIBES😅😅😅
@@Rawrrrfearmewait what?
is that coins or just eyeshine? I don't see any features
Making him bleed is a really good way to make the viewers unsure of future events for the entirety of the movie. I legitimately felt like Puss very well may die at any action-packed point, and thats a fresh take on animated characters. Usually the stakes feel so lackluster.
The drop of blood really caught me off my guard and made me sit at the edge of my seat.
@@Rawrrrfearme Facts. Disney could never😂😂😂
When I saw that my first reaction was: "Oh let me guess. That's wine dripping on his forehead?"
When it was revealed to actually be blood I knew this movie was going to be something else.
Absolutely spot on!
You described the feeling perfectly. After hearing about the movie, I unfortunately had the Death reveal spoiled for me. Without the extra suspense having to wonder why the cloaked man was chasing Puss, I expected it to be like any other fantasy movie - entertaining, but with no real stakes; nothing *really* on the line. When the bell dropped over Puss, I could tell the movie was going to be a little dark - but after Puss started to bleed, I could tell the movie was going to be significantly more morbid than the Dreamworks I’m used to.
How come no other animation studio actually sets up stakes like this? This is *brilliant!*
Every time. Every fricking time i watch scenes from this movie i can feel my spirit and faith returning. You guys behind the movie, You truly are the foundation of Dreamwork. Keeping the name alive.
Yo
0:55 I just noticed that the 8 glassess represents Puss's lives and he is drinking (living) his last glass (life). Damn. That detail is so good to discover.
Dang, even after the movie being out for a while, there are still hidden details that I haven't noticed! that's cool!
Haih@@star_dust3322
This is what you can do when you're not Disney.
He is one of the best characters I have seen in years.
Thank you all for the likes.
And the respectful back and forth in the replies. It's good to see people exchanging their thoughts without disrespecting each other.
Disney was like this at one point before they got too focused on whatever political message the MSM is pushing instead of telling a good story
@@rusty7984…. Disney has been part of the MSM since WWII lol. They own ESPN and ABC for decades.
don’t pretend like Disney/Pixar weren’t casually dropping masterpieces back in the day. It’s only now that Dreamworks is catching up
@@Whoisthatguy906 what are you talking about??? dreamworks has been making goddamn masterpieces for YEARS since prince of egypt
@@womp47 Prince of Egypt, Shrek 1&2, and Kung Fu Panda were the only notable Dreamworks movies back in the 90s to late 2000s. With a few other okay other movies. Meanwhile Disney/Pixar in that era were making whole childhoods
I think what I love most about Death's visual design is that he's just so plain.
From the very first moment you see him, he doesn't strike you as the literal personification of death, but there's still very clearly something wrong about him. There's no over-the top clothing designs. There's now flashy bits or skull embroidery like you would expect to see. It's just a plain black cloak and a pair of Sickles. And honestly, I think that's the best representation of Death I've ever seen.
I hadn't seen anything before than and actually assumed it was death. I couldn't really say why...I think it's the fact that he is drinking with the guy he is there to take.
That's a very common trope. But they still pulled off that trope very well it seems.
I mean he was wearing a black hood and had sickles, which are a type of scythe. Pretty on the nose representation of death lol.
Dude, that's literally how "death" is reperesnted in culture generally.
The twilight zone: death appears as both a hitchhiker trying to help guide a woman who passed away in a car accident on her way to California
Death appears as a man in a suit who is thought to be a census taker until touching a flower causing it to wither and die only armed with a book and a pen to keep an appointment
Then this form of death
Those are my personal choices
I like the representation of Death in the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman (and probably the show?) Not necessarily the look, which is similarly NOT unique, but her philosophy and how she carries out her duty.
And then they make kung fu panda 4
Ruined Megamind too
Different team i guess, however i like the visuals
Except megamind 2. Wtf is that
"The only thing DreamWorks is consistent of is their inconsistency"
-Some UA-cam commenter
realest dreamworks movie teaching kids to value life
Nice to find a video that doesn't make cuts in the clips every 2 seconds. Thanks for that
They have to do that to avoid copyright claims/strikes. They have to break it up, often alter scenes such as mirroring the footage or altering audio, adjusting video size, adding other background elements, stuff like that.
@@SergeyPupkoMusic I know, but it doesn't make it less irritating yknow? I can live with mirrored or cropped footage but the random skips in dialogue and fights bug me like no other lol
@Dynamations that's why you pay to see it. Otherwise normally you should have to deal with the sucky jumpy stuff for free
@@6-dpegasus425 oh I absolutely saw it while in theaters. Great movie. Its nice to see clips again now and then though.
@@6-dpegasus425 Not for me. I fly the black flag.
Something interesting I read; Death’s whistle is exactly 8 beats long throughout the movie, signifying Pusses’ 8 lives he lost and is on his last. When Death confronts him in the last scene it changes to 9 beats, signifying that Death has finally decided to take his last life.
I counted again and it's didn't sound like 9 beats in the last scene
Apparently it’s in a minor key to make it sound menacing but by the end when puss confronts his fears it changes to a major key to show the wolf isn’t a threat
There’s a TON of numerical symbolism in the movie regarding the 9 lives.
HOLY SH!!!!!! I hadn't noticed that... Wow dude... Mind - blown!
@@Rawrrrfearme i can't tell if this is sarcasm or not
I love to imagine that originally death was merely a watcher, as they are for everyone, but after a while of seeing puss waste so many lives he genuinely just got pissed off and so straight up just said "this some bullshit". Crazy to think Puss in Boots pissed off and was hunted down by a literal force of nature
And then pissed it all away with Kung Fu Panda 4.
And megamind 2
Just… how? How did dreamworks actually make a movie this good?! I went back to watch it in theaters 3 times! And every single time, it got better. Death in particular is nothing short of a masterpiece. Within 2 minutes, you immediately respect his presence and understand that he’s not a joke or some rival for Puss. He’s a force that is capable of killing him in seconds if he wanted to, but he chooses to play around and torment puss just cause he can. And that’s a terrifying thought. Even the scene where he puts the coins in his eyes (the first proper hint that he’s death in my opinion) is like he’s saying; “run all you like, I can easily catch up whenever I want to”. god I love this movie!
The coins in the eyes was a reference to ancient Greek tradition, putting gold over the eyes of the dead to pay the ferryman for passage across the River Styx.
In his introductory scene, he shows agitation when Puss says that he laughs in the face of death. Before then, he holds an empty milk glass in his hand with Puss' reflection in his hand after Puss had already consumed eight of them. In fact, just before he appears, a candle gets blown out, just like when the doctor told Puss that he died.
They got a lot of clues setting up the reveal!
@@lugbzurg8987 Also how death just appeared beside of Puss was a hint. As if he came from thin air. No sound of a moving chair, just the whistle and poof he sits at the bar. Like a ghost who just materialized.
I also watched it 3 times. It's the best and my favourite till yet😊
Same here. I thought Dreamworks was over, but this movie...was so well made that it shocked me
1:08.
Notice how the Wolf slowly scratches the poster with his claw. That's the closest thing we get to see him angry throughout the movie, a subtle way of saying: "You won't be laughing soon enough. I promise."
That's is such a amazing detail, I love it.
he also got angry when he said "Por qué diablos fui a jugar con mi comida"
A few seconds after that you can see on his face that he's actually quite....ah...i guess the phrase is "disappointedly pissed" at how puss responded.
The more i rewatch scenes, the more details I find that I missed. thanks for pointing out that small detail
PLUS THE WAY ITS LIKE A CLOCK TICKING!!
It's also just such a fun bit of hindsight to realize - Puss brags that he "laughs in the face of Death" *to Death himself,* who he literally just laughed at to his face.
3:23 I really love this part in particular, imo the most chilling part of the whole movie. Puss in Boots is now back where he belongs in a life of adventure, but now there is a price for that choice that will hunt him down forever. After all those pathetic sheltered months, Puss never forgot who he truly was
And apparently……neither did he
I like the visual que, that hair on end really sells the appearance everytime.
1:04 I love how Death gets noticeably frustrated here when Puss says he laughs in the face of Death as shown by his claw scraping the paper, really subtle.
I've rewatched this move several times just to catch the little hints before the reveal (Good God he is even in the crowd during the giant fight). The paper scraping was one of the first I caught and also one of my favorites.
Good eye
@@ThoughtsReflected The whistle tune plays right before Puss gets crushed by the bell, but it's mixed in with the audience cheering. Very subtle details make this better with each rewatch
great eye
@@matterking1 Yeah someone pointed tht out on twitter and I was amazed
One detail I loved about the movie is how they used/portrayed Death's whistling. Throughout the movie, it comes off as haunting and chilling as he follows Puss. But in the end, after Puss accepts his own mortality and stops fearing death, that changes. And as they part ways, the final whistle Death gives is almost calming and comforting. It really does fit the tone of 'facing one's mortality' that the movie gives off. To someone who would be afraid of dying, the thought of death would be terrifying. But to someone he would accept it when it is their time to go, death would be almost welcoming in a way.
lmao.
"drying"
hilarious typo
In Jesus Christ there is nothing about death to fear. Only joy
@@zackscheffler1964 Can we just not?
@@JVmono In Darwin there is nothing about death to fear. Only lack of reproduction.
@@zackscheffler1964 If you can proselytize on UA-cam comments, I should be able to take a dump on LGBTQ+ all I want
I just love the line "everyone think they'll be the one to defeat me, but no one escaped me yet." It hits ten times harder after you realize the wolf is the death himself not just some bounty hunter.
No one:
Subtitles: "YOU WILL ALWAYS LIVE A LIFE OF... *FEAT*
I love how the detail at 1:04. When Puss says he "laughs in the face of death", you see the Wolf's claw drag and tear into the bounty poster in anger as he clenches his fist. It's a great hint at to who the Wolf is, to see the quiet fury that was visible from the very first scene the Wolf was in. The disrespect given to death, and how often we run from it instead of using it as an adversary to inspire us, is such an important lesson, and was conveyed very well through Death's character serving as the antagonist.
Ooo, never noticed that, that's great
At the angle that he scratches the poster, it almost seems as if he scratched out “OR” on the poster.
There are some more little details that i noticed and understood only after re-watching. Like when death says (1:20) "...no one escaped me yet."
And when Puss is counting down his prior deaths, the corner of each numbered title card shows a stylised Wolf with his sickle blades.
Yet another detail i have failed to notice until now. Great eye my friend
The animation and character design is fantastic. The way Death's eyes flash, his simple outfit, his choice of weapon, when they ride away in the wagon and his eyes reflect like coins, the wolf skull that appears in the cracks of the past life as he shattered it, even the fur on his face is darker where his skull is, they all come together to create a truly daunting antagonist.
The eyes looked like coins because he put coins in his eyes. This is a reference to the culture of ancient Greece. The Greeks placed coins on the eyes of the dead before burial so that they could pay Charon for taking them across the Styx to Hades.
I thought they put the coins under their tongues
Gotta give props to the animators here. At 0:45 his facial expression looks as if he's ready to explode in fury beneath that sweet smile!💀☠️
I would have died right there😰
The chuckle after “compliments to your cobbler” is animated soooo well.
I love how Dreamworks actually put some really hard lesson in the movie. Something that literally all of us will have to accept eventually -- to come to term with your mortality.
Amen
Amen
I don’t believing in death. We are immortal energy visiting human life.
@@sinikkastudio Life is going to hit you hard then. You will learn eventually.
@@sinikkastudio you need to stop drinking your period
I still believe Death Wolf is the one of the most metal, iconic antagonists to exist. A chilling personification of mortality, he embodies the cunning and sadistic traits that are often ascribed to death itself. Even his whistle and it's discordant harmony is just chilling since you know he's right around the corner. When I watched the first time, seeing him walking through the barrier without being vaporized just shows how he's not a force to be trifled with. Yet, within this stark character, you see a paradox, making it even more complex. His sadistic tendencies are juxtaposed against a deep-seated respect for life by trying to exact retribution on Puss in Boots, a character who has shown a lamentable disregard for the nine lives he's been granted. Respect Death.
I love this movie, and how it portrayed Death. *"Pick it up."*
It's been like 5 months, what you mean you still believe? Bruh
@@HONUT Grammar machine broke there. Bad habit of mine
Pretentious drivel.
I mean I thought your opinion was well thought out. I agree with you.
I loved reading this 😭
Something that's truly genius about this scene, is that opening whistle... in a cinema screening, that whistle is coded to come from all of the surround speakers. it's literally everywhere. And what does puss do when he hears this? Looks up and around confused. he can't just hear that it's coming next to him because the noise isn't next to him it's all around him.
This movie is so good.
I love how the wolf stayed practically untouchable and threatening until the last fight.
I love how in the first encounter Puss was really unnerved until Death put the wanted poster on the bar then he’s was like “oh your just here to kill me, that I can deal with.”
Its because the wanted poster grounded the situation in something he could understand. Before that, he just felt that something was off amd wrong.
Fans are hard to deal with. Enemies? Those he knows what to do about.
Facts! The poster allowed him to rationalize the unsettling feeling.
He was worried the wolf was trying to smash Puss likes the ladies 😂
Puss started to realize "i might be in trouble " as Lobo choke slammed him into the bar.
The pause, smile and dead eyed stare after "My compliments to your cobbler" is truly creepy. Love this film.
Remember puss's human mother gave him his outfit and death chuckles when mentioning her... Meaning she is most likely dead at this point.
I would add, up to that point, he was just behaving like a creepy fan. Puss thanks him, turns around and sits a little further, as a celebrity would do in such a situation.
Best character writing
The shivers I got as Puss’s fur started to raise when he realized he was bleeding…bravo, bravo, bravissimo to Dreamworks. 👏🏻🥂
i'm a huge fan of the way Death's scythe was reimagined here. You usually see this one long scythe, a wide range weapon kinda. Here, Death has two sickles instead, fighting in close range and has such a cool visual effect because of that!
one of the animators played diablo 3
Plus, it means that Death has to get close to you in order to claim your life.
@@braincuriositiesi was looking for such comment haha
yeah definitely straight out of Malthael's hands from Diablo 3. Malthael being the aspect/angel of Death.
A scythe was used to reap wheat and such. Heard of the reaper? Here he is using the asian variant, a sickle. It's kind of an older variant with a similar purpose. You can tell they learned a whole lot from japanese animation too, in the fighting particularly. But deaths scythe never was intended as a weapon really. He just reaps lives, like grass.
What i love most about this type of character is the fact he is not a bad guy or a good guy. He is just doing his job of keeping the natural order of things no matter how important the characters are. Most of all he literally just plays around knowing full well he could end it in a instant but rather giving them a learning experience what fear really is.
Stop lying, you only like this character because everybody else likes him. You're just trying to fit in.
@@OnepieceistheworstfuckinganimeHard to make an argument when the only description of your youtube account ends with « Kill yourself »
@@Onepieceistheworstfuckinganime you are so angry for no reason, yet you like puss and boots just to fit in as well lmao shut up kid
@onepieceistrash uh if you're mad at people for liking the same thing, then that's just sad, lol
I mean if he literally thrives on his job and the fear he causes others, you can't just say he's neutral or doing his job. He IS evil
Went from a literal fucking talking egg to Death himself
Death is my favorite character DreamWorks didn't have to go so hard like that though but I'm glad they did.
When you realize that he walks through the energy wall without a scratch.
On a flying star platform
Can’t stop death.
And everyone is able to see him at that moment because everyone’s life is in danger.
Death cannot die
He made him. Death can handle death.
I love how he’s not technically the bad guy, he’s just death itself. The pure chills that go down your spine every time you see or hear him… they did a great job with this one.
Oh he's the bad guy for sure! He's trying to kill puss pre-emptively. But still, bad ass villain
Nah, he’s definitely the bad guy here. Puss still has one life left, and death is trying to take it from him prematurely, all while maliciously torturing Puss the whole time. He is stepping past the boundaries of his office as death to take out his frustrations on a mortal who is still alive. He really only stops because Puss learning the value of his final life takes the fun out of the hunt.
@@sanelyinsane8497he was teaching him a valuable lesson. Sure, he was sadistic about it, but he’s Death 🤷🏾♂️ Also, like he said, he’s really not a fan of anyone having more than one life.
@@sanelyinsane8497 And Puss being egotistical and mocking Death makes him somehow the "good" guy?
The only difference with Death is that he doesn't pretend.
@@DavidVandemarkhe was NOT teaching bro a lesson. Puss learned a lesson but Death just wanted to kill him
Him just straight *walking* through the star fire stuff, not even noticing or anything, was the biggest fricking power move I've ever seen in a dreamworks movie.
Then we got kung fu panda 4
"I'm death straight up!"
Such a solid line from an insanely well crafted and executed antagonist.
Rest of hollywood this is how you make a great villain.
Compare Death Wolf to the embarrassment that is Death from the Castlevania anime.
@@n0denz castlevania deth isn't literaly death, he just feeds off of death and took up the name to sound cooler
"I'll be back."
It's about the honesty of short effective statements.
The sound design is incredible. And love how they dropped the frame rate during the bar scene to give it that comic book feel
It's an inspiration of Spider-Verse animation style & I loved the animation style since Into The Spider-Verse & this film
And yet the sound designers don't get talked about in the behind the scenes documentaries and it's only the acting and animation process...
It's called drawing in two's. Basically, you draw a character or whatever it is, and you copy the same thing for two frames.
The whistle gives me chills everytime💀...
When I saw this in the theater he was genuinely scary especially with the rolling sound
1:26 Just keep in mind the amount of speed Death used here: He disarmed Puss using what it seems to be one of his sickles and resheathed them in an instant as if to appear that he hadn't moved at all. Makes it all the more clear how much Death was playing with his food.
no one is food to Death until it's their time to be dead. At this point puss was not meant to be dead yet. Imo, Death was just trying to give puss lesson to value his last live, as he said, Death wanted to cheat puss death, but Death cannot actually cheat someone's death. That is why Death keep chasing Puss to prevent him getting another 9 lives back which he finds it absurd, so Puss can value the lives he has gotten, otherwise he would be ended like he was, playing with his 9 lives.
@@romian37
If he was trying to Puss a lesson, he wouldn’t have thrown a tantrum about it at the end of their 2nd battle.
@@romian37 he said "why did I had to play with my food" in Spanish after the second battle with Puss, so he *was* indeed playing with his food
@@romian37 that's not true dude, he can clearly hurt the living he just wanted more of that fear it's basically a shoot to his dopamine receptors so the more he fears him the better the pay off but he got too greedy and puss n boots started to not fear him and cherished his life so both reasons to end his life were crossed off he had no reason to in the end
@Kartik Manogar super cool drawings
In all honesty, 3:24 is the scariest scene for me, the way Death just stands in the crows whistling makes it unnerving, especially the fact that nobody acknowledges him except for puss What makes this scary is the fact that the people are waving and cheering alongside him.
He also puts the coins on his eyes, which in some cultures is a form of burial rites.
@@iannye6054 Mostly in greek myths. It is said that you have to pay the boatman Charon to cross the river of styx.
@@whomst855 that’s more greek customs not myths, the myths are the reason, and it’s a coin in the mouth iirc
thats why the eyes looked weird, was wondering why they were glowing yellow
How the fuck is that scary?
"And I don't mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or theoretically or any other fancy way. I'm death. Straight. Up..."
That line was cold af.....💀
Can we just take one second to appreciate how good the voice actor of death was. Like seriously, he deserves better
6:00 I really love this scene, everyone saw a person being disintegrated by the wall and almost lost one of them for the same reason, then out of nowhere, they hear a whistle and see someone walk through as if it was nothing, just to show the Wolf is no ordinary person
Did Jack's henchwoman actually get vaporized by it? I just took it as her getting sucked out of the perimeter of the star's barrier and falling to her death, especially when Baby wasn't instantly vaporized and lasted a few seconds (while still suspended in midair OUTSIDE the star's barrier, mind you) before Goldie pulled him back in from the outside. Just my thoughts and observations on it
@@AlphaStoutlandYeah I figure that that's actually what it is. Wouldn't make sense to be vaporization.
A lot of people don’t talk about the “no one’s escaped me yet” having its meaning entirely twisted once you realize he’s Death and not a bounty hunter
Absolute chills
and also him literally pointing to where he wants puss sign on the bounty poster
If something is relatively obvious it doesnt usually get brought up
@@kaiingoglia3974 Depends. This happened before his reveal as death, no?
@@kurokamireaper3761yes, his reveal happens way after that seen in the bar, in the crystal cave
That second where he places a pair of coins over his eyes before pointing straight at Puss like he can somehow still see him was my favourite moment of the movie.
Even without the Charon reference, it’s such a perfect way to state that absolutely nothing can stop him without using a single word.
Damn this was like the best character in the movie
4:15 Without us, you'll always live a life of
Feat
thats true and i was about to say it
LMAO
Fear
i do love the smell of feat
Feet
God, the animation is incredible! The almost stop-motion choppiness is actually visually stunning on screen.
I hope mainstream animation may at last be leaving copycatting Toy Story behind... thanks, Spider-verse.
@@CMontgomeryBurns09 yup, the Spider-Verse effect in action
Doesn't work with 3d.
Disney's live action remakes make you really appreciate good old school value of animation
@@AM-dj2mssame. I don’t mind it too much, but some scenes are just too choppy and I don’t like the feel. Especially in fight scenes.
I was genuinely scared and impressed by this villain.
At 2:20 you can see the wolf's reflection in puss's eyes as the blood comes into frame thats a cool detail I never noticed before Incredible movie 👏