We'd integrate it into the sidebar somehow or make events somehow noticable on mobile in any case
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I watched (a good chunk of) bullet train the other day. It was okay, pretty quality writing for the first act(s?) But it all goes out the window at the end
The worst part by far was all the advertisements. That fiji scene made me sick. I groaned whenever I saw that audi car they kept shilling
I watched this shit "Entergalactic" on netflix because it had that Spiderverse animation style and looked fun visually
Unfortunately it was bad because 1) The main character(/s) just not likable, none of them really decent people tbh - they're transparently stand-ins for whoever made the thing, but whoever that is is not a likable person
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Nothing happens in the plot, there's not really conflict or an antagonist, the main point of conflict around the climax is created by the idiot main character / just kinda miscommunication in general and is barely a conflict in that it kinda just gets autopilot-resolved
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Plot progress (if one could call it that, since there's no plot in the first place) happens mainly in musical montages, which actually happen like minutes apart at some point. It's kinda lazy storytelling after the first 2 times and also the music they choose is like Bad Kid Cudi songs
All around - good concept with the animation and stuff but it failed in that it didn't really have any essential story to tell. People in the story aren't really "protagonists" either in that they aren't really active participants in their life, shit just kinda happens (often in musical montage) and then it's happy at the end because it happened in the right way
For example - they smoke cigarettes.
Friends hang out smoking weed/drinking/talking about women. It's like a 15-year-old's vision of what it's like to be an adult.
Main character is messy with women and then has to make a big speech in the climax which is like "I know I seem like a fuccboi but I am not actually a fuccboi" and then gets forgiven.
Rather than have them "grow" into something, they start out as artists already having had their big "break," don't really desire anything, then the warm, happy conclusion is just that their big break is working out well. Things autopiloted in the right direction.
Whoever wrote this needs to read "The Hero's Journey" or look up the wikipedia page - your character needs to desire something and grow and change not just have random shit happen to him
Even if the shit that was happening was interesting it might work (see: A Serious Man) but in that case you need to not be transparently wanking yourself off with the writing
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As a narrative artist myself, I respect your opinions on the tv show (which I haven't personally seen), however your reference to "The Hero's Journey" definitely raises some eyebrows.
Trying to enforce schematics onto an artform as organic as storytelling is always slightly disturbing and while I get that a character does need some change (be it epiphany or threshold crossed) it never comes down to an exact art in a good story.
The Hero's Journey is a little like the rule of thirds in photography: maybe good as a reference point for other ideas, but quite boring if stuck to.
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Yes I agree - it is a very useful tool to explain why something didn't work, but everything that does work does not need to conform to it. Hence my reference to A Serious Man - in cases where the monomyth is cast off, we can either stand out above the rest or sink in the mud. In this case I didn't feel it was done so consciously, but rather just because the creators of the film had some half-baked idea and maybe smoked too much weed to realize it was wrong.
One could argue A Serious Man does follow the hero's journey in the end; as when the main character changes the score at the end, he has compromised his personal values which he was held onto the entire film, and the end of the film insinuates he will be punished for it.
I don't think that fits the Hero's Journey - it is an interesting preponderance but if anything would be a corrupted, grim version.
An essential component of the monomyth is that he "returns home, having changed." You correctly point out that he changes (and not in a good way - I guess arguably) but the immediate consequence is that his home is actually destroyed (by a tornado).
If anything this story fits a sort of older biblical monomyth - the format of the Moralistic Tale. A person denies/diverges from his system of belief and as a result is punished by incomprehensible destructive forces. To fit this in the Hero's Journey monomyth I would expect the tornado to then be a Call To Action and there to be about 7 hours more of plot in which he masters the art of the Samurai or something.
For me, the final three stages of the hero's journey (the return home) is the part most often played around with, and I find it's not about returning but more some change in character due to events earlier in the story.
It's been several years since I've seen A Serious Man though.
Interesting. So you see his hero's journey as a progression away from his unyielding moral code and the moment of changing the scores as the culmination of this journey. It is an interesting way to fit the tale to Campbell's work but definitely - as I said before - a dark, corrupted version; as evidenced by him immediately being punished.
But I think ultimately the Coens are such proficient storytellers that it always boils down to essentially nonsense to try to fit them to one framework or another. A Serious Man is A Serious Man.
how have i never seen this thread
hit the road was excellent - 9/10
blood on her name - pretty good. got a bit too caught up with being clever and slowly feeding the viewer the twists. would've more effective if it was just a little more streamlined imho but still a fun and tense experience - 7/10
Yea it's a good one. Not much else like it
All the people who roll their eyes when people rate The Godfather pt.1 and 2 as top 5 movies of all time should watch this video. it does a really good job of putting into words the things that make me love this movie and especially Michael's character and performances
it does a great job of explaining why those movies are so amazing and why Al Pacino as Michael Corleone is one of if not the single greatest performance ever in a movie (imo)
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another beautiful video for anyone who loves film, shining the light on John Cazale who was an unbelievably talented and natural actor, his characters don't even feel like acting at all
He starred in 5 films before dying of cancer, all 5 were nominated for best picture and three won. And no more than 4 of the 5 films could have won the award, because two were in the same year.
He and Meryl Streep were very in love and would have been married and had kids had he not died. It's quite sad. This video is just about his acting though
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Never seen it