#resemblances

Resemblances

Somewhere along the primrose path That led to my seventies, I lost the blithe agility Of the young springbok’s knees,

The swift gait of the wildebeest Running with its herd, And the keen eye of the crouching cat Under the nesting bird,

Retaining only the stoic love Of the elephant for its kin And the fierce desire of the salmon For the stream it was nurtured in.

Gail White

More poems by Gail White are available on The HyperTexts site.

Kuririn = Mutaito

It appears to be that Toriyama's design of an older Krillin was meant to resembles Master Mutaito.

His hair and mustache are similar to Mutaito's except Krillin's hair isn't fully gray & his moustache is shorter. Both Krillin & Mutaito are of short stature as well. And another visual similarity is that Mutaito has a nose that is barely pronounced & Krillin is noseless.

Son Gokū = Grampa Gohan

Toriyama's drawing of Oldman Goku has a moustache that resembles his Grampa Gohan's, but he's also holding Roshi's staff.

There are aspects of Sun Wukong that were used for Grampa Gohan as well. Example being how Gohan being friends with Gyumao (Ox King) when Wukong was friends with the Ox-Demon King in Journey to The West. So, Goku is in a way, a continuition of Son Gohan's story which is inspired by a portion of Sun Wukong's story.

Striking Resemblances

Before Frozen II came out, I was expecting it to have scenes that referenced and mirrored ones from the original Frozen, but I certainly did not expect it to go as far as it did with THESE particular moments!

In both films, Anna and Elsa sacrifice their lives while performing a selfless act and consequently suffer the same (temporary) fate of magically freezing to solid ice. Step by step, these scenes bear striking 😉 resemblances to one another in the following ways:

Both depict close up shots of Elsa and Anna looking at their hands, which is where they begin to turn to ice.

Both girls witness the films’ main antagonists pull out their swords and approach a seated person from behind.

Both villains are standing behind the seated persons and raising their swords over their heads, readying to strike their victims.

Both girls reach out to stop the villains’ swords as they shout out “NO!”, after which they freeze even faster.

Both girls’ make final moves of raising their arms upward right before they completely freeze to death.

Although these two separate scenes are alike in almost every way, they differ in one key way: when both girls reach out to stop a sword, only Anna is successful. In the present time, Hans fails to kill Elsa because Anna intervenes to save her sister. But many years earlier, Runeard succeeded in killing the leader of the Northuldra because there were no witnesses present to intervene.

As mentioned in this analysis by @ice-bjorn, Anna succeeds because she takes action for something happening in the present, while Elsa obviously fails because she tries to take action for a memory long gone, one that already took place long ago in the past. This is illustrated in the first film of how Anna always looks to the future, what comes next and what could be, with optimism and hope. But Elsa is always trapped in the past because of the guilt and shame she has felt since childhood after she accidentally harmed Anna. By the second film, Anna still focuses on what is happening in the present and what the future may bring, while Elsa searches for answers about the past in order to resolve the present. Until the end of the movie, Elsa is unable to completely move forward in the present and towards the future.

For the obvious reason, I don’t think any of us were counting on there being a scene where Elsa freezes to death in this film, even though one of the reasons for it was to mirror the original scene of it happening to Anna. Anna freezing is easily explained because she was accidentally hit by magic ice released by Elsa. In Elsa’s case, I described in this analysis that the other vital reason why this phenomenon occurs is because she ventured into the bottom cavern of Ahtohallan, which is its most treacherous area. Her powers make Elsa immune to normal cold temperatures, but Ahtohallan is a magical place, so the cold temperatures within its base are NOT normal. The fact that it causes Elsa to freeze proves that she is not invulnerable to any other ice magic, especially any that is more powerful than her own.

Possibly the best thing about him, though, was the signature he put on his patents. I first saw it during our huge family reunion in ‘97. (No, seriously, we made the papers. There are...kind of a lot of us.) My Dad got a copy and made t-shirts for everyone, with each branch of the family being a different colour, so you could tell how everyone was connected.

It’s a little dragon-type creature.

He wrote everything in kind of bubble letters. His first initials - A.E. - made up the wing. He gave the L of Landerholm feet and drew a little head on it. It looks like it’s either yawning or squawking. It’s perched on a little orb and the rest of the name is, well, a name.

It’s really awesome.

The first time I saw it, I immediately thought it looked kinda like Goldie from The Sandman. Not close enough to scare the lawyers, mind, especially since Uncle Axel is long since dead, but there was a bit of a resemblance. If you tilted your head and squinted a bit.

I’ve used this signature for various, family related projects through the years. I’ve converted it to book plates that I put in the journals I make for my cousins. For Christmas this past year, I decided to offer everyone their own personal blends from Adagio. Uncle Axel’s signature seemed like the most appropriate thing for the tin art, so I’ve been colouring it up however the recipients like.

So far only my next youngest cousin and her husband are the only ones to get me their blending requests. (A few other people are, I know, working on it. Everyone else has been silent. We love each other, but we kinda fail at communication.)  My cousin requested ruby red, for reasons that are obvious if you know her. Her husband requested black, yellow, and green. Since yellow and black don’t mix well, I made the background a green-to-black gradient and did the signature yellow.

The result?