/lit/ - Literature

>>12638750
but making it look cool means not making it look absurd. there is something about the resolution of these events that strikes us as being believable, as making sense.

what causes the T-1000 pain? the thing that can transform and take on all of these different faces, now finds itself being unable to simulate the most fluid of thing of all, liquid fire. it is brought to a terrible encounter with what it ultimately is, a mask without a face.

conversely, why is that the T-800 handles its own death so well? the T-800 certainly appears to feel pain when it the T-1000 is ripping its guts out with a spear, or having its head slammed. it doesn't cry or scream, but we don't get the impression that any of this is *pleasant.* Arnold's is a study in heroic masochism, as was John McClane in Die Hard, or any number of other martial-arts film types. they don't *cry* or moan or suffer. part of what is so insufferable about Kefka is that not only does he appear to derive very little pleasure from ripping the world apart, his own death is weirdly anticlimactic also. he just kind of dissolves, without any last words or anything.

making it look cool is important, there's no question. but there's real magic in how and why things look cool to us, why things make sense or don't make sense, are grotesque or beautiful, whether or not they have *pathos.* that pathos to me is quite important.