"Nothin' left to do but try to take the leap and follow through… and that's exactly what I'll do!"
— The Thief when stealing the diamond
Published on May 11th, 2017 by Rachel Kim as a third year college project, Diamond Jack
is a short animation depicting an unnamed thief stealing a diamond from a hotel while being pursued by a detective.
This song/animation provides examples of:
- Ambiguous Time Period: The aesthetics, fashion, and art style seem to resemble sometime between the 1920s-50s, but the detective has a modern police car and other vehicles and bits of technology appear far more modern.
- Animesque: Its art style is heavily inspired by the works of Osamu Tezuka and the thief and detective’s rivalry blatantly alludes to Lupin and Zenigata.
- Bittersweet Ending: The thief gets rid of the bomb, but the detective arrests her.
- Cartoon Bomb: The diamond is actually a bomb which the thief is trying to dispose of.
- Double Meaning: At one point the lyrics go, “Won't stop until I win the race, although I may have crossed the line” which can be interpreted as the thief simply winning the race or her considering that her actions may have gone too far.
- Foreshadowing:
- The first time you see the diamond you can see small hinges indicating something inside and later when the detective enter the casino a slot machine rolls diamond, bomb, bomb.
- The lyrics also hint at the Thief's Good All Along status.Just please hold on until you seeThat I'm not the villain I appear to be
- Incredibly Obvious Bomb: Averted though after you spot the two bits of Foreshadowing it's impossible not to notice.
- Oh, Crap!:
- The wealthy patrons at the Plaza are utterly horrified to discover that the prized jewel has disappeared. The elderly man starts sweating bullets.
- The thief is slightly taken aback in a few instances whenever her plan seems to go South.
- Percussive Maintenance: In the casino the thief hits an old woman's slot machine which apparently makes her a winner.
- Super Window Jump: The thief does one as seen above!
- Title-Only Opening: At the beginning the video quickly shows the title Diamond Jack before quickly disappearing.
- Wink "Ding!": Surprisingly subverted as the thief does wink but instead of it being in sync with the classic, “ding!” the wink is used to portray a Beat in the animation.
