Rockémundo: Woah, Dude, Mr. Turtle Is My Father...

i just watched finding nemo, and no, i haven't been counting how many times that is now.

Crush is a great great character. i think so not cuz of the obvious reasons that the two of us talk similar, well that too, dude, but i think he's The singlemost major integral single contribution to Marlin's arc. (arguable, i know, challenge me if you wish.)

but mostly the way he is animated, facially, is why i think he's great. all his kinds of neck and eye movements just carry so much... wisdom. as they should, being a 150 yearold surf guru who makes the singlemost integral single contribution to Marlin's arc. Is there an element of wisdom in the way non-animated turtles look? probably. i

don't know, all non-animated turtles are a waste of my time...

but his facial expression and dialogue, not just dialect but all other kinds

of wordchoice, makes me think that he knows he's being soo damn wise and integral-to-character-arc. but, naturally, the first few billion times through watching it you might not say that. just that he was being himself,

stating his own mind, and it happened to come across as a kind of pseudo-wisdom to marlin at the time, for whatever reason. but this past time through, the few-billion-and-one'th time through, it may have been my imagination, but i saw it in that dude's

eyes, man. he knows just exactly how wise and integral he is being to the Jellyman. when you've been cruisin the E.A.C. for 150 years, you reach a level of wisdom n junk soooo far beyond what you could possibly comprehend now, probably. i'll bet, that kind of surf-turtle-guru level of magic is Exactly how much magic it takes for me to see, or even think i saw, something like Wisdom in animated eyes

This is the worst possible photo of him they could have ever picked -to be the number one major promotional recognizable face-of-the-film google image result. it carries nothing of what this post is about. Obviously the doing of Pixar's rich booksmart soulless stepmother...

Fittingly, The Director of the film himself, Andrew Stanton, provided the voice acting. he also did wall-e, and some other stuff, but i'm not 1000% on top of the which-directors-did-what thing. once inside pixar, i consider them all one singular (x)-part director, cuz they always seem to be workin with some kinda co-director or several writers, and always small church of animators. they just strike me as a team force much more than a classroom.

well, most of them screenshots, even the good ones, did not do the whole thing justice what i was goin for. it must be in the movement of the drawings, but, well, keep it in mind the next time you watch it, i guess.

SUMMARY

Life Lessons i Learned from Crush: the wisest of turtles are satisfied, and sometimes even prefer, being under-appreciated as not the wisest of turtles; merely the raddest.