rewatched bullet train last night. take this

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Bullet Train might not be an Oscar film but David Leitch deserves an award for the decision to have Aaron Taylor- Johnson lose more clothes and become more disheveled as the film progressed

he's just ladybug

tangerine with anyone vs. tangerine with lemon

Tangerine is one of the two deuteragonists (along with Lemon) of the 2022 action comedy film Bullet Train, based on Kōtarō Isaka's 2010 dark comedic thriller novel Maria Beetle.

He and his brother Lemon are a famous assassin duo called The Twins. By the time of the film, Tangerine and Lemon are hired by the White Death to escort his son and his briefcase to him on a bullet train.

He was portrayed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who also played William Rollins in Chatroom, Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ray Marcus in Nocturnal Animals. As a child, he was portrayed by Miles Marz.

History

In the past, Tangerine and his brother Lemon completed a job in Bolivia and kill an entire camp of guerillas. Unbeknownst to them, the guerillas were men of the White Death, causing him to travel to Bolivia and leave his wife's side. After the wife is murdered in an assassination attempt, the White Death hires Lemon and Tangerine for a mission on a bullet train in the hopes that they are killed by other assassins he hired.

Lemon and Tangerine are first seen on board of the bullet train in a compartment with the White Death's son. They banter for a short while until getting a call from one of the White Death's goons telling them to make sure the briefcase is still in their possession. Lemon tells Tangerine that he safely stashed the briefcase but upon checking the place where it should be, they realise it has been stolen. When they return to their seats the White Death's son has been poisoned and killed by an assassin named The Hornet.

Soon after they arrive at a train station, where goons sent by the White Death are waiting. Tangerine tells them that everything is under control outside, while Lemon puppeteers the son's corpse inside the train. The goons believe them and Tangerine returns inside.

After that the pair comes up with a plan to retrieve the briefcase from the thief. Tangerine finds another assassin called Ladybug on the train. He realizes that Ladybug stole the briefcase and chases him down the train. The chase ends, however, when Ladybug pays another passenger to wear his hat and glasses and uses firecrackers in a train car to distract Tangerine. Upon returning to his original seat, Tangerine finds an unconscious Lemon, who has been knocked out by Ladybug and wakes him up. They both come up with a new plan to catch Ladybug and head off into different directions.

After tracking Lemon's phone that Ladybug stole Tangerine finds his thief hiding inside a toilet. They both get into a fight across the train that ends with Tangerine being about stab Ladybug in the eyes with chopsticks. Their fight is interrupted by another call from one of the White Death's goons. He demands that both Tangerine and Lemon are present in the meeting at the next train station. Ladybug offers to step in for Lemon as they don't know what he looks like and Tangerine accepts. Ladybug wants to get the briefcase for the meeting but realizes it has been stolen by the Prince and Kimura.

They decide to take a fake briefcase and the meeting goes well until Ladybug accidentally opens it and reveals the clothes inside. They escape back to the train and try to come up with back-up plan until Ladybug pushes Tangerine out the train at the next station just as the doors are about to close. Tangerine jumps back onto the train and breaks through a window to get back inside.

Not long after Tangerine finds the unconscious body of Lemon, who he assumes is dead due to the shots in his chest, inflicted by The Prince. He gets a call from the White Death, who announces that he's going to kill everyone on the train to which a depressed Tangerine expressses indifference. He searches the train for the alleged killer and runs into Prince, who attempts to convince him that Ladybug killed Lemon. Tangerine sees through her deception due to finding train stickers that Lemon stuck on her. Before Tangerine can shoot the Prince, Ladybug enters and the Prince pretends that she is an innocent girl that Tangerine is attacking, and Ladybug fights Tangerine to defend her. In their fight, Tangerine accidentally shoots himself in the throat and bleeds to death on the floor. His corpse likely remained in the wagons and was presumably damaged when the bullet train gets wrecked at the end.

Trivia

Unintentionally, Aaron-Taylor Johnson's performance as Tangerine was decisive in his casting as Kraven the Hunter in his upcoming eponymous film, as the Sony Pictures executives quickly cast him in that role due to being "blown away" by early Bullet Train footage of him as Tangerine.

Aaron-Taylor Johnson was cast as Tangerine due to David Leitch's desire to work with him. Leitch had previously offered Johnson a role in Deadpool 2, but he declined the unknown role.

The fruit truck Lemon uses towards the end of the film to run over the Prince is one filled of tangerines. This was evidently done as a reference to Tangerine, symbolizing that even from beyond the grave, he still assisted his brother in carrying out a pivotal assassination.

Tangerine's actor: Aaron Taylor Johnson had starred in the Monsterverse along with Lemon's actor: Brian Tyree Henry.

I don’t think people talk enough about Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s marriage to Sam Taylor-Johnson enough. This man was an 18 year old boy when they met on the set of Nowhere Boy where he played a young John Lennon, she was the director of the film and 42 years old at the time.

That shit is grooming.

I don’t care that he’s still married to her and he’s now 32 and she’s now 55.

It’s grooming and she’s a nonce.

I don’t care if he approached her first. He was a kid and she was a fully grown nearly middle aged woman who should have no interest in an 18 year old boy. She should have known better.

Just because someone is 18, does not make this shit okay. They are not suddenly mature just because the law declares it as legal. The age when a person has reached their full adult neurological development is around the age of 25, she was a fully mentally developed woman and he was still mentally a little boy.

I will never understand how people are okay with this shit. It’s grooming. It’s fucking weird and it happens to anyone regardless of gender.

Idk man if a 42 year old woman approached my 18 year old son like that, I would be in jail because there would be nothing left of her.

for the one thing id like to know,,, what is your #1 comfort media? (i didn't know quite how to word this lol, but like, a movie/show/book/etc)

That’s actually a great question,

i feel like i find comfort in all of the things you listed but for comfort movies i’d say :

The Lion King, because i watched it a lot as a kid so it’s very nostalgic

Arna’s Children, because the story is just beyond belief and truly super interesting

Forrest Gump, because i love the unique storyline and i also loved the narration

Bullet Train, went into this movie with no expectations but was really surprised with how much i was enjoying it

Salt of This Sea, because it’s quite different from other Palestinian movies with a nice and not so complicated storyline

And as for shows i’d say :

Friends, because i rewatched it so many times and it actually helped improve my English a lot and i relate to some of the characters… i stopped rewatching it when i found out the actors are pro zionism tho :(

How I Met Your Mother, i love the connections between all of the characters and the show in general gives me a sense of nostalgia to a life that i never had and to a place that i’ve never been to

Paranormal, one of the very few Middle Eastern shows that i watched and found genuinely very entertaining and enjoyable

Cunk on Earth, watched it last year when it went viral and it was so worth it

As for books, i think that the last question i answered (which was about my favorite books) sums it up pretty well

applogies for the reblog spam, but like your art is AMAZING!!!!

Those notifications came quicker than I could process what was happening lol, it’s cool! Reblogs are always seen and appreciated

Also tyyy :D I love seeing people enjoy seeing my art as much as I love making and sharing it

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Please someone send me Tangerine request, the brain rot is real.

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If there are any specific Ah Sahm scenes from Warrior, Tomisaburo scenes from Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, or any of Andrew Koji's other works that I haven't gif-ed yet and you want me to make gifs of, just let me know! A goal of mine is to finish gif-ing Ah Sahm scenes from seasons 1 & 2 before season 3 comes out, but we'll see how that goes 😂

No Yuichi Kimura gifs yet since I'm still waiting for an HD-quality of the movie. Just know that I will make gifs of that man (& his father) when I get a hold of it! 😁