Lupine the 3rd: Part III 17
Lupine III Part 3 17
ルパン三世 – Part III Ep. 17
Summary/SPOILER Summary
Fujiko wants Lupine to steal a large pile of gold bars for her birthday. In return, Fujiko promised to marry him. Thus, Lupine had a volleyball droid infiltrate the bunker and use sleeping gas to put Zenigata and the police to sleep. Lupine uses the computer to remotely control the droid with which he breaks into the vault and steals the gold. Further, the ball grows larger to “eat” all the gold and then escape.
Zenigata awakens and the police give chase, so Lupine turns the droid into a balloon to escape. Fujiko goes to Lupin's hideout, where Lupine makes a giant cake. Inside the cake is gold bars. Fujiko says she will marry Lupin. However, she drugs his drink and steals the gold in a helicopter.
Fujiko places gold bars as the floor in her hideout and celebrates. However, Lupine is there. The two go back and forth trying to deceive each other. They are interrupted when Zenigata arrives with Lupin's orb droid. The droid “eats” the couple and takes them to prison. Zenigata knew about their conversation about marriage. As a result, Lupine activates a transmitter and gets Zenigata's consent to allow Fujiko and Lupine to marry at a large church the next day.
Jigen and Goemon received the message. During the wedding, Zenigata receives news that Lupine has stolen the gold. He finds out that somehow, Lupine and Fujiko are just dummies. She and his police leave. However, Fujiko and Lupine wearing fake masks along with Jigen and Goemon are there. They steal the gold again, but once again Fujiko betrays them. When she tried to escape, she was locked up by Zenigata.
Thinking/Evaluating
There's “Lupine Physics,” and then there's “we can do whatever we want to tell the story.” The latter part is where Lupine the 3rd: Part III 17 fall into. The droid ball, which predates the sequel trilogy Star Wars, is “whatever the plot needs is what the ball can do”. Somehow, Lupine could see clearly from the ball's perspective. Somehow, it manages to grow and grow until it can “consume” a ton of gold. And then it can move around quite easily, including flying in a hot air balloon.
Fujiko's betrayal was predictable. It's really a shame because the story would be a lot more interesting if you couldn't predict what would happen. So Fujiko telling Lupine that she's going to marry him is just amazing. That said, I'm glad Lupine was prepared for his initial betrayal. But he was not prepared for her second betrayal. But she got hers in the end, which is okay. I would have rather had more realistic romance between them instead of the predictable garbage we got.
Finally, where did the helicopter that Fujiko used to steal the gold from Lupine come from? Jigen and Goemon did not bring it with them. Lupine didn't bring it with him. That damn thing wasn't outside when Fujiko arrived. However, when she left, it was still there. Whatever.
Final thoughts and conclusions
Final, Lupine the 3rd: Part III 17 just a banal thing where the writer just does whatever and expects the audience to be satisfied with it, no matter how predictable or stupid.
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