Pacific Rim: What Makes the Costumes So Great?

Pacific Rim: What Makes the Costumes So Great? | Behind the Seams

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With Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro combined blockbuster action with visual worldbuilding, and this includes sumptuous, thoughtful costumes.
It's way more than Kaiju and robot explosions. It's a feast for the eyes.
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@helenafarkas4534 Жыл бұрын

two things: first of all, the obvious signs of wear on Raleigh and Yancy's armor as they suit up for the fight is one of the immediate costume touches that always hooks me. second, the use of the Red Shoe. we get three different uses of it - first Stacker hands Mako the real physical shoe (which we as viewers have no idea of the true significance of just then) when he tells her that she can be a pilot. next, when Mako first goes out of allignment, what triggers the full flashback is her finding a red shoe in her mindspace. then we get the full flashback and we understand the full significance of the shoe all along, and then the further reveal of Stacker Pentecost as the Jaeger pilot who saved her... it's just soooooo good

@wingnutlady 3 жыл бұрын

When I saw this in theatres, I originally thougt Little Mako's outfit was a weird nod to Dorothy Gale. Then I read a comment by Del Toro that the shoes were red so that when Mako and Stacker first meet, she's essentially "holding her heart in her hand." It's sad that all the attention to detail and unique touches that Del Toro put in this movie were completely stripped out of the sequel. God, that shot of G***y Danger swinging the ocean liner like a bat reminds me of how truly thrilling and easy to follow the action sequences in this movie are.

@behindtheseams300 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the sequel is enjoyable but it really does lack that same sense of panache.

@wingnutlady 3 жыл бұрын

I think Uprising is held together solely by the strength of John Boyega’s performance, but that still makes it a pretty enjoyable time

@CantankerousDave Жыл бұрын

There's a famous Japanese song called Akai Kutsu (The Red Shoes) about a little girl whose mother entrusted her to a missionary couple so she could be taken away from their hard life in Hokkaido to live a happy life in America. In reality, she was turned away at the docks because she was showing signs of TB, and she was sent to live in an orphanage in Tokyo, where she died alone soon after. Her mother spent her whole life thinking that her daughter was alive and happy in America. Red shoes are visual shorthand for adopted kids and tragedy.

@Badwolfwho1 3 жыл бұрын

Pacific Rim might be one of my favourite movies, I always wished we got more out of the background characters like the pilots of Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon but you're right that a lot of it is down to the great costume and design work that fuels wanting more from even mostly background characters

@behindtheseams300 3 жыл бұрын

yeah, i think the fact that we care about those characters at all is a testament to the design work!

@shinluis 5 ай бұрын

This is straight up the best, most complete, absolutely delightful video of Pacific Rim I've ever watched. Thank you so much for all the amazing insights.

@beckmannm 3 жыл бұрын

Time for me to rewatch Pacific Rim! Though, isn't it always time to rewatch PR! 💙

@inklingofadream 3 жыл бұрын

I have been viciously rocketed back to the memory of being a 15 yo getting this from redbox and fixating on the bleach blonde russian couple so much I read everything in their ao3 character tags and no other fic in the fandom lol

@behindtheseams300 3 жыл бұрын

yesss they look so cool!

@Eph_Wilson 3 жыл бұрын

“This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for Behind The Seams.”

@monizcovich9080 3 жыл бұрын

I think you summed up everything I love about this film.

@fhmconsulting4982 3 жыл бұрын

Huge fan of Del Toro and this franchise deserved so much better treatment from the Studio. However I could really see Del Toro expanding his relationship with Netflix to everyones benefit.

@Furore2323 3 жыл бұрын

Heck yeah TEAMWORK.

@zenosAnalytic 3 жыл бұрын

"Guillermo del Toro's work is always a feast for the eyes" *Visual: Most Disturbing Eye-Based Monster GdT has ever imagined* *orsonwellescitizenkaneclap.gif*

@behindtheseams300 3 жыл бұрын

;)))