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THREE MEANINGS OF THE RED SHOES IN PACIFIC RIM – & A FOURTH UNSUSPECTED

the first & oldest is the dance of the doomed orphan
who wished to be a princess
in all its versions from the first grim moralizing fairy-tale (x)
to the movie made a century later about a ballet about the story (x)

to the 1993 music video (x) on the same theme
which ties it to the Crossroads Bargain legend
(& the Tempter is as always the Self
the enemy in the mirror)

the second & most obvious is the sign of the witch victrix

which may or not be derived from the first
consciously or subconsciously
but which became associated in 2006

the third is something you can onlysee
if you know old Japanese children’s songs at all –
but it is not at all unimportant (x)
& this is a fixfic or a happy AU of “Akai Kutsu”
(which may itself be a legend or true or partly true)
yes it matters that he speaks her language

& the fourth if you watched the first Japanese kaiju movie
not directed by one of the two artists this movie was dedicated to

& here is the oracular connection made plain
& how the turtle & the turtledove became one
& no longer the nemesis of the phoenix
& how Atlantis got into the story
& why the impetuous boy photographer
must also show respect for The Lady he admires
& why it is a (p)rebuttal to MAN OF STEEL
bc the foolish fanboy who dismissed the Tokyo sequence
as a ripoff of GAMERA 3: REVENGE OF IRIS
was on to something
even if he had no idea why
bc the evolution of the modern myths is entangled w the old stories

but in the G3 reboot trilogy finale we see what wld really happen
if an all-powerful planetary guardian takes no care whatsoever
for the individuals supposedly being protected
in the course of battling the ancient foes of earth
the remaining survivors of “friendly smash” may not appreciate
the fanboy philosophy of eggs & omelettes & “the few” outweighed

G3 is what wld happen in BATMAN VS SUPERMAN
if the elder Waynes were killed in the battle with Zod
& their child joined forces w Lex Luthor
to find other alien superbeings in hiding
to take revenge on Kal-el & end him
bc the cure = the disease

& so the world ends in multiple bangs
as the ancient feud
between the rival Guardians of the Four Directions
leaves the planet open to invasion
as the retconned Guardian of the North realizes too late
that individual human lives mattertoo

(there is more of course - lighthouse symbolism & apocalyptic cults & environmental catastrophe leading to the decline of the fisheries & the archetypal eccentric paleontologist & the boy who thinks the monster will be his friend while the rest of the world puts aside its Cold War rivalries to fight it - but the imagery of the first 1965 GAMERA (x)

of the young and dedicated research assistant
handing the ancient Inuit prophecy stone
that was entrusted to her care
back over to her wise & kind & ever-courteous mentor
is mirrored here – & so too this