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.
@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.
I just notice that in 0:18 Puss's Face reflect on Death's Glass implying Death is there to take puss's head. When the studio's employees actually love their job they will put every little detail as possible
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.
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.
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 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
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
@@YeahMackDhe 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”
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.
I love the subtle imagery they use to hint at his real role in the story, from his use of sickles that represents death or the reaping of men’s souls in some cultures, or in his second appearance where he puts coins over his eyes, referencing the Ancient Greek tradition of placing coins on the deceased’s eyelids before burial, so that they can pay Charon the boatman to cross the River Styx and enter the Underworld. It’s a nice little touch that those who are aware of that symbolism can see it and recognize it. Death is definitely one of my favorite animated antagonists because he’s not even a villain, but quite literally a force of nature. Good job DreamWorks!
@@gentlebabarian you are partially correct. Anubis is usually seen as the Egyptian god of death, but his actual role was to prepare the deceased on their journey to the Egyptian Underworld, known as the Duat. He was considered the patron god of funerary rites and mummification, so his role itself wasn’t to bring death to mortals like the Greek god Thanatos, but to prepare them for the journey. That’s why one of the common things that the tombs of the upper classes contained was the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which was to help guide the deceased to Osiris’s hall and their final judgment.
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.
@@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.
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
1:46 this has to be the coolest thing I’ve seen I don’t know if they did it on purpose or not but he looks terrified in the reflection but confident on the outside like a visual representation of putting on a brave face
It was definitely on purpose, because in their final fight, they do the same shot again but this time with Death's face reflected, showing Puss' growth.
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.
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.
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.
@@JD_tcbI 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?
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!*
Have 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.
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
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
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 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”.
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
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
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.
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!
@@Lugbzurg 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.
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
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.
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
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.
@@NeatNightOwl Getting angry at any particular generation of people doesn't help anyone. Humanity hasn't gotten any better or worse as a species between generations- we're pretty consistently human all through history. And a lot of complaints about generations are actually "ugh, teenagers" or "ugh, out-of-touch elderly people" angled in slightly the wrong direction. No, that [hypothetical] teenager isn't annoying because of what generation they're a part of, they're annoying because they're 15 and their brain is a hormone soup and they think they know everything.
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.
Probably the animators: *man lets spice things up, no one's gonna get intimidated by an egg* *yeah you're right man, let's..hmm make **_death_** into a villian*
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.
The coins over the eyes scene really went over a lot of peoples heads. This film was wonderfully done, definitely one of my favorite depictions of Death.
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.
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.
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 is also the same studio that went from How To Train Your Dragon to Boss Baby. DreamWorks’s quality goes back and forth so quickly, watching all of them back to back requires a neck brace
"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.
He is like the Dahaka in Prince of Persia Warrior Within : Here to do his duty and is unkillable(mostly) and comes to chase you when you least expect it.
Everybody mentioning their favorite parts. But no one points out how badass it is that throughout the whole film Puss is the only one who hears the whistling, right up until the final fight. The last whistle is heard by everyone, and suddenly the concept of death becomes very real.
I was literally thinking of this Why was everyone at the end able to hear the whistle Puss was hearing the whole time but no one else could Because Death comes for everyone, bro Everything becomes very real very fast
@cheezypeezy234 he only wanted puss because he was mocking the idea of life and taking it for granted. I think everyone heard it at the end because Wolf was making himself a nice little entrance, and to show to Puss, he couldn't keep running. No one would be able to save him from Death except himself because Death rules over all, even the main villan Jack. And it's shown by everyone hearing that whistle. They're all as equally vulnerable as Puss is
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.”
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.
The bell rings eight times as well, just before the candles on the chandellier go out. if you watch carefully as well, when the lightning flashes outside the window (when wolf is saying he loves the smell of fear), they reverse to something inhuman. Before the lightning flashes, they're more or less normal eyes. Sclera, pupil, etc. but when the lightning flashes, they change in time with the lightning flash to something that really isn't
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."*
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.
I love how, before you know anything about him, the Wolf is immediately set as opposing Puss just through visual design. His eyes are red, the opposite of Puss's green. He is a canine, Puss is a feline. And Wolf's fur has a blue tint in his first scene, contrasting Puss's orange fur. I love visual exposition.
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.
This!! Following his panic attacks! As someone who experience this I really felt for Puss. He’s helpless, vision blurred, and cant do anything but lie down and catch you breath
@@jhemarca2596 Yeah I heard his Panic Attacks were praised from how accurate they were. It felt clausterphobic despite you literally being outside, every noise seemed a thousand times louder, your vision is blurring and your mind is turning against you.
"And I don't mean it metaphorically, or rhetorically, or poetically, or theoretically, or in any other fancy way. I'm death, straight up." Screenwriter was cooking with this one.
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.
@@kamikaze1337x 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
The subtle detail at 2:51 chills me to the bone, Deaths' gaze is staring not only at Puss, he's staring at us as well. "Lives flashing before your eyes?" This movie gave not only Puss a life lesson, but us as well.
3:27 I like the coins on the eyes part. The coins are to pay the ferryman on the river Styx to take your soul to Hades, otherwise you can't afford the fare and your soul wanders restlessly forever. Basically, what Death is telling Puss is that "your ride to Hades is on the house".
After a person dies, people that does the funeral & burial will put two coins in the dead person's eyes as a fee to pay the ferryman to take you across river Styx. Basically Death was saying that once he's done, he'll put two coins in Puss' eyes. That is absolutely freezing cold from DreamWorks 🥶
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
6:00 I like how he passed through the barrier that incinerated every living being. Shows how Death is not just built different, but is on another plane of existence
@@user-DG no, as much as I love the movie I don't want Dreamworks to make it a live-action, many live actions end up KILLING the original.... So I hope it doesn't turn to one
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.
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."
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.
Musicians, anyone else noticed that the whistle always finished on the unresolved D7? ONLY towards the end of the movie, we hear the melody resolve ( to G maj) once Puss realizes he can't escape Death.
He's definitely a Villain Puss isn't Dead yet but he is sooo fed up with him that he wants to take Pusses last life him self to Hell with Natural Order.
Nope he's a villain. He state several times in the movie that he's breaking the natural order or whatever and even admits that he's breaking his own rules. He ain't doing his job anymore, it's just personal
@@rodan9773both of you are wrong death is simply here to do his job he has no role of “good” or “bad he wanted to teach puss not to be so arrogant and to appreciate the time while you have it
What I like most about this is how genuinely enraged Death is. Yes, while they're just talking, he's all casual and reserved, almost relaxed in his confidence. But when the fight breaks out, he quickly becomes furious - no smile, no toying around. Instead he's outright savage, animalisting - a stark contrast to the anthropomorphised, sophisticated depiction of all the other animal characters, he actually comes across like a wolf on a hunt. And this contrast even more emphasizes that he is not just another character, but a force of nature - literally Death, as a concept, incarnate.
IRL wolves, when hunting down their prey, will often try to intimidate their prey first, and will only start giving chase if the prey turns and flees, which would explain why Death 'loves the smell of fear' and why, in the final confrontation, Death forefits when Puss finally stands his ground.
@@jyvaineorchids2255 _They don't forget, since it's the state we ultimately end up in._ _They simply take the idea of the state, and give it form- resulting in the personification of the concept._ _Like love and Cupid._
0:40 I love how even when he's seems to cheerfully look at Puss you can't help but feel that something is inside his head like he's calculating or waiting for something.
The fact that his entire character is so (in my opinion) flawlessly written and designed. The writers clearly took their time and did their research for him; seeing as they draw inspiration from multiple cultures and religions for their own take on “Death” as a character. From the coins on his eyes representing the payment for passage on the river styx (greek mythology,) to his sickles and the posing in the crystal cave scene (anubis/wepwawet- egyptian mythology) all boiling down to his whistle- referencing El Silbón; a venezuelan legend/ghost story that entails a “cursed soul who wanders the plains searching for victims” the legend obviously goes deeper than just that but if you’re that interested i suggest researching yourself :) but essentially if you hear whistling nearby, you’re safe, and El Silbón is far away. If you hear it getting farther away, he is close. Basically what im trying to say is dreamworks put their all into this movie and it shows.
Watched this movie last night and the "coins in eyes" bit made me laugh because it just seemed so random. But factoring in the Styx thing it makes total sense now.
@@benh3518 yeah kinda laughed too, maybe they should have had them in there to begin with, otherwise makes you wonder what happened between that small cut, did he bend over and pick up coins to put in his eyes, then start ominously staring again? 😂
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.
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
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?
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.
I just notice that in 0:18 Puss's Face reflect on Death's Glass implying Death is there to take puss's head. When the studio's employees actually love their job they will put every little detail as possible
I didn’t noticed that. Everyday I notice something new. This movie is a masterpiece
Omg!! So true!! What a detail!
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.
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.
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!
They announced another trolls movie....
the story was actually pretty boring
@@jakabok226 homie did you watch the movie?
@@sataorikarganaka4818 yeah i watched like 20 minutes then got bored so i turned it off
I love how they didn’t make Puss overpower/Defeat death but made him come to terms/accept death as something inevitable and guaranteed to come
Also does anyone know where people go when they die in this universe
@NamlessKing2390 idk bruh, they just float
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?
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
realest dreamworks movie teaching kids to value life
And death is but a entity that teaches those that takes a life or disvalues their own.
best comment
Very rare these days
Nah man this creeped the crap out my kid
This is the most real value that can teach to kids, instead of some LGBTQ PRO MAX political correctness shit.
1:03 He literally told him he laughs in his face and then mistook him for a bounty hunter. That "So I've heard" was so personal
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
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
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
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@@YeahMackDhe 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”
5:41 this part is so epic like, that "shhh" After his monologue
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
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
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
I love the subtle imagery they use to hint at his real role in the story, from his use of sickles that represents death or the reaping of men’s souls in some cultures, or in his second appearance where he puts coins over his eyes, referencing the Ancient Greek tradition of placing coins on the deceased’s eyelids before burial, so that they can pay Charon the boatman to cross the River Styx and enter the Underworld. It’s a nice little touch that those who are aware of that symbolism can see it and recognize it. Death is definitely one of my favorite animated antagonists because he’s not even a villain, but quite literally a force of nature. Good job DreamWorks!
You forgot to mention that anubis is the god of death. Is a wolf/jackhal. So they also referenced that too
@@gentlebabarian you are partially correct. Anubis is usually seen as the Egyptian god of death, but his actual role was to prepare the deceased on their journey to the Egyptian Underworld, known as the Duat. He was considered the patron god of funerary rites and mummification, so his role itself wasn’t to bring death to mortals like the Greek god Thanatos, but to prepare them for the journey. That’s why one of the common things that the tombs of the upper classes contained was the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which was to help guide the deceased to Osiris’s hall and their final judgment.
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.
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.
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
1:46 this has to be the coolest thing I’ve seen I don’t know if they did it on purpose or not but he looks terrified in the reflection but confident on the outside like a visual representation of putting on a brave face
It was definitely on purpose, because in their final fight, they do the same shot again but this time with Death's face reflected, showing Puss' growth.
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
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
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.
@@JD_tcbI 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.
4:17 ah yes "FEAT"
I thought death said fear
I'm dead lol
@@Cecin910 In the subtitles was saying feat 😭 😂😂
That's what i said 😂
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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!*
Have 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😂
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
3:57 Just noticed it looks like a skull...
What looks like a skull?
@@Files_Loathing Meant 3:57, my mistake...
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.
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 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
4:56 "But you're not laughing now" is the scariest line
*"Puss in boots has never been touched by a blade"*
_>Proceeds to immediately get cut by Death's blade_
Exactly the point. Tells you he's no joke. The most terrifying foe he's ever faced
@@buddermonger2000I seriously don’t want to imagine Shrek meeting this fellow
@@salmonsinger4514 shrek surpasses this limit of mortality, also the donkey too
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
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.
2:48 Shrek & Donkey cameo
They are made by the same studio and probably live in the same universe
@TchibberHe’s in a couple shrek movies
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.
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!
@@Lugbzurg 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.
2:11 You know this villain is serious when he makes the main character bleed 🥶
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
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
@@jflannel1965 Can we just not?
@@JVmono In Darwin there is nothing about death to fear. Only lack of reproduction.
@@jflannel1965 If you can proselytize on TH-cam comments, I should be able to take a dump on LGBTQ+ all I want
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
Some of the best animation in an animated movie EVER! I got the movie for my daughter, but couldn't believe how good it was!
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.
3:27 "He's just standing there........MENACINGLY"
This needs more likes
@@E--Dropat least a thousand
@@Philthorn Fr
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Wee woo wee woo
This shot at 3:21 is literally something straight outta analog horror.
Corre corre, gatito...
Straight from Nosferatu
You don't even know what that means.
God I hate zoomers
@@NeatNightOwl Getting angry at any particular generation of people doesn't help anyone. Humanity hasn't gotten any better or worse as a species between generations- we're pretty consistently human all through history. And a lot of complaints about generations are actually "ugh, teenagers" or "ugh, out-of-touch elderly people" angled in slightly the wrong direction. No, that [hypothetical] teenager isn't annoying because of what generation they're a part of, they're annoying because they're 15 and their brain is a hormone soup and they think they know everything.
@@SR-ck8guok zoomer
3:36 will forever live in my dreams. Literally directors will go a lifetime without shooting a scene that’s this impactful. This is scary
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
How the fuck did we go from Humpty Dumpty being the villain to death
Probably the animators: *man lets spice things up, no one's gonna get intimidated by an egg*
*yeah you're right man, let's..hmm make **_death_** into a villian*
Well, that escalated quickly 😂
Death is not the villian
@@Julian.2002-ux7 Not a main villain but he still is a villain of the movie
@@DF9000k why is he an villian? He does the things for what he was created. He is Death and he tries to show Puss that he has to value his last life
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.
The coins over the eyes scene really went over a lot of peoples heads. This film was wonderfully done, definitely one of my favorite depictions of Death.
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
That line, "I'm death, STRAIGHT. UP." Actual chills. Every time.
I think my favorite has always been "*but you're not laughing now*."
1000th like. You’re welcome 😊
@@frenchcoupon3391 thank you🤌☺️
The whistle itself is just bone chilling.
Hell yeah! 😅
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?
Death is the villian that is acttually not a.. villian ...but lesson.
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.
How did Dreamworks come from this masterpiece to Kungfu Panda 4 and Megamind 2?
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: 💪 😢💦 💦
This is also the same studio that went from How To Train Your Dragon to Boss Baby. DreamWorks’s quality goes back and forth so quickly, watching all of them back to back requires a neck brace
"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.
He is like the Dahaka in Prince of Persia Warrior Within : Here to do his duty and is unkillable(mostly) and comes to chase you when you least expect it.
Everybody mentioning their favorite parts. But no one points out how badass it is that throughout the whole film Puss is the only one who hears the whistling, right up until the final fight. The last whistle is heard by everyone, and suddenly the concept of death becomes very real.
I was literally thinking of this
Why was everyone at the end able to hear the whistle Puss was hearing the whole time but no one else could
Because Death comes for everyone, bro
Everything becomes very real very fast
@@ecru_5819
That means at the end scene
Death is not only wanna take puss life
But he wanna takes everyone else life (including the Bears)
@cheezypeezy234 he only wanted puss because he was mocking the idea of life and taking it for granted. I think everyone heard it at the end because Wolf was making himself a nice little entrance, and to show to Puss, he couldn't keep running. No one would be able to save him from Death except himself because Death rules over all, even the main villan Jack. And it's shown by everyone hearing that whistle. They're all as equally vulnerable as Puss is
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.
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
The bell rings eight times as well, just before the candles on the chandellier go out. if you watch carefully as well, when the lightning flashes outside the window (when wolf is saying he loves the smell of fear), they reverse to something inhuman. Before the lightning flashes, they're more or less normal eyes. Sclera, pupil, etc.
but when the lightning flashes, they change in time with the lightning flash to something that really isn't
@@historicalhijinks3058yall are such attentive smarties woah
You're awesome for pointing that out for us!
the emotions, the little details, everything is just perfect... wow
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 😭
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.
I love how, before you know anything about him, the Wolf is immediately set as opposing Puss just through visual design.
His eyes are red, the opposite of Puss's green.
He is a canine, Puss is a feline.
And Wolf's fur has a blue tint in his first scene, contrasting Puss's orange fur.
I love visual exposition.
And his accent is Brazilian, opposed to Puss's Mexican
I love how Death never really _wanted_ to take Puss, only to make him value life. Epic character. 10/10.
My compliments to your cobbler.
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
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.
This!! Following his panic attacks! As someone who experience this I really felt for Puss. He’s helpless, vision blurred, and cant do anything but lie down and catch you breath
@@jhemarca2596 Yeah I heard his Panic Attacks were praised from how accurate they were.
It felt clausterphobic despite you literally being outside, every noise seemed a thousand times louder, your vision is blurring and your mind is turning against you.
What are you doing here...out representing the Space Pirates in the TH-cam comments is crazy
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
"And I don't mean it metaphorically, or rhetorically, or poetically, or theoretically, or in any other fancy way. I'm death, straight up." Screenwriter was cooking with this one.
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.
@@kamikaze1337x
If he was trying to Puss a lesson, he wouldn’t have thrown a tantrum about it at the end of their 2nd battle.
@@kamikaze1337x 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
@@kamikaze1337x 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
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 subtle detail at 2:51 chills me to the bone, Deaths' gaze is staring not only at Puss, he's staring at us as well. "Lives flashing before your eyes?" This movie gave not only Puss a life lesson, but us as well.
What a load of crap lol…its not that deep
3:27
I like the coins on the eyes part. The coins are to pay the ferryman on the river Styx to take your soul to Hades, otherwise you can't afford the fare and your soul wanders restlessly forever. Basically, what Death is telling Puss is that "your ride to Hades is on the house".
I noticed that too, wasn't sure if it was a greek mythology reference or not
I thought they were just the shiny eyes animals get when they're in dim light. Either way, it is scary as hell
After a person dies, people that does the funeral & burial will put two coins in the dead person's eyes as a fee to pay the ferryman to take you across river Styx.
Basically Death was saying that once he's done, he'll put two coins in Puss' eyes.
That is absolutely freezing cold from DreamWorks 🥶
@@nicklewis470I thought it was this at first too and found it super uncomfortable to look at lol. the coins thing is easier to deal with imo
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.
6:00 I like how he passed through the barrier that incinerated every living being. Shows how Death is not just built different, but is on another plane of existence
Can't kill what's already dead, amiright?
More like he's not something that can be quantified as dead or alive since he himself is one of those states
similarly at 3:15 when his shadow passes underneath the door
It doesn't incinerate them it sends them out of the dark forest
He's also not on the Map when Goldi takes it from Kitty
5:53 now that’s an entrance that goes hard. Almost competing against Vader entrances in my opinion.
Sent a shiver down my spine!! Was almost wishing it happened in a live action film!
@@user-DG no, as much as I love the movie I don't want Dreamworks to make it a live-action, many live actions end up KILLING the original.... So I hope it doesn't turn to one
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.
@@OnepieceistheworstanimeHard to make an argument when the only description of your youtube account ends with « Kill yourself »
@@Onepieceistheworstanime 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
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.
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."
I love the scene where Piss can’t hear anythin’ but the ringin’ in his head... Until Death whistles.
3:05 I love how he licks his lips before whistling. Makes it alot more realistic since you do it better when they're moist.
In 5:21 you can see the confusion and fear at the same time in Puss's face
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.
Musicians, anyone else noticed that the whistle always finished on the unresolved D7? ONLY towards the end of the movie, we hear the melody resolve ( to G maj) once Puss realizes he can't escape Death.
At 1:05 .... Notice how Death scrapes the paper after Puss says he laughs at his face...
You can see this movie 100 times and still find something that you missed.
And it's not shown but he likely crossed off the word "alive" from the poster.
I love how he isn't technically a villain, more like a guy who really wants to make sure he does his job right
Mmmh I think he's actually trying to kill puss before he should
He's definitely a Villain Puss isn't Dead yet but he is sooo fed up with him that he wants to take Pusses last life him self to Hell with Natural Order.
Nope he's a villain. He state several times in the movie that he's breaking the natural order or whatever and even admits that he's breaking his own rules. He ain't doing his job anymore, it's just personal
Death is literally a force of nature
An actual psychical spirit
@@rodan9773both of you are wrong death is simply here to do his job he has no role of “good” or “bad he wanted to teach puss not to be so arrogant and to appreciate the time while you have it
What I like most about this is how genuinely enraged Death is. Yes, while they're just talking, he's all casual and reserved, almost relaxed in his confidence. But when the fight breaks out, he quickly becomes furious - no smile, no toying around. Instead he's outright savage, animalisting - a stark contrast to the anthropomorphised, sophisticated depiction of all the other animal characters, he actually comes across like a wolf on a hunt. And this contrast even more emphasizes that he is not just another character, but a force of nature - literally Death, as a concept, incarnate.
IRL wolves, when hunting down their prey, will often try to intimidate their prey first, and will only start giving chase if the prey turns and flees, which would explain why Death 'loves the smell of fear' and why, in the final confrontation, Death forefits when Puss finally stands his ground.
Personnification of death at it finest.
But everyone forget that death is a state, not an individual
@@jyvaineorchids2255
_They don't forget, since it's the state we ultimately end up in._
_They simply take the idea of the state, and give it form- resulting in the personification of the concept._
_Like love and Cupid._
0:40 I love how even when he's seems to cheerfully look at Puss you can't help but feel that something is inside his head like he's calculating or waiting for something.
3:46 what i love most about this scene is his body reacted to the whistle before he even realised himself.
The fact they put the detail to put in Cat senses was crazy
Just like humans; animals have involuntary reactions and the brain can't pick up on it momentarily
@@Aceofwolves Just like with humans. People often feel and react before thinking.
The fact that his entire character is so (in my opinion) flawlessly written and designed. The writers clearly took their time and did their research for him; seeing as they draw inspiration from multiple cultures and religions for their own take on “Death” as a character. From the coins on his eyes representing the payment for passage on the river styx (greek mythology,) to his sickles and the posing in the crystal cave scene (anubis/wepwawet- egyptian mythology) all boiling down to his whistle- referencing El Silbón; a venezuelan legend/ghost story that entails a “cursed soul who wanders the plains searching for victims” the legend obviously goes deeper than just that but if you’re that interested i suggest researching yourself :) but essentially if you hear whistling nearby, you’re safe, and El Silbón is far away. If you hear it getting farther away, he is close. Basically what im trying to say is dreamworks put their all into this movie and it shows.
Watched this movie last night and the "coins in eyes" bit made me laugh because it just seemed so random. But factoring in the Styx thing it makes total sense now.
@@benh3518 yeah kinda laughed too, maybe they should have had them in there to begin with, otherwise makes you wonder what happened between that small cut, did he bend over and pick up coins to put in his eyes, then start ominously staring again? 😂
@@whoamiwhoknows Ghosts aren't real though.
Just one small suggestion
*I AINT READING ALLAT*
Death comes in all forms. It doesn't matter the appearance. The only thing that matters is he's on his way.
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
Death: fear
Captions: feat
6:10 THAT WHISTLE REMIX IS SO GOOD
Thought I was the only one that noticed