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| Topic Started: Feb 22 2011, 02:29 AM (5,482 Views) | |
| bloom_boi | Feb 23 2011, 11:27 AM Post #16 |
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"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!" | |
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| lamna | Feb 23 2011, 12:14 PM Post #17 |
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I think it makes perfect sense for him to go to America, the USA is the most powerful nation on earth, and very well developed. I mean if you were exiled to South East Asia, you'd want to end up in Singapore right? Or would you rather live in Pak Xeng, or Ywathit or somewhere else in the back end of nowhere where clean water is a luxury for senior army officers. Where did all the whenwes go after Mugabe took over? Malawi? You're right when aliens just happen to crash into earth, but these chappies are picking where to go. |
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| colddigger | Feb 23 2011, 12:32 PM Post #18 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Sounds okay except for the fish-outta-water bits, I figure those aliens would probably have some form of art and if they can hear things then chances are music would pop up, and I seriously doubt he would fall for a nasty human, even if it had a female body and he a male body in our terms... unless... he was secretly into that stuff... |
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| T.Neo | Feb 23 2011, 01:33 PM Post #19 |
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The difference is you can't compare, rural Southeast Asia vs. Singapore with Other Developed Nations vs. the USA. The USA is the greatest in some respects, but also pretty mundane in others, and even worse off compared to many countries. If I came to Earth and wanted to choose the nicest place to live/hide, I would go for an industrialised, developed region (which can be detected from orbit- for example by detecting urbanisation and artificial light at night) with a moderate to high population density, and low pollution levels. If I didn't have InterSpecies Transformation Magic, I would try to find a place that is the most remote from human civilisation, has a mild climate and abundant natural resources, and has the lowest number of things that might kill me. That doesn't necessarily have to be the US. It doesn't have to be in the northern hemisphere, either. But I seriously doubt it would be in Africa, for one.
Well... it's quite probable that they have a concept of sexes, and that these would be biologically similar to our concept of sexes- to a degree. The difference lies in his/her understanding of gender identity and sexuality... traditional human masculinity and the view another sophont could have about masculinity could be entirely alien. Edited by T.Neo, Feb 23 2011, 01:40 PM.
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| dialforthedevil | Feb 23 2011, 02:26 PM Post #20 |
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Guys remeber this is the MODERN age! Screaming fan girls fancy the shit out of sparkling corpses! I dont think they care about whether or not this guy is from outer space! They just wanna ride him! Or marry him for younger girls... |
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| Holben | Feb 23 2011, 02:28 PM Post #21 |
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If you were coming to Earth you'd want to be in a developed but overlooked country. Canada, for example. The southern parts of Canada would also be good for non-transformies. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Yorick | Feb 23 2011, 02:31 PM Post #22 |
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Yes. It is set in CA. That's how I saw the setting in my head. I'm an American, American studios would be financing it and it would be primarily for American markets. It's only logical that it'd be set in America.
It's just an example of the fish-out-of-water humor prevalent in the film's first and second act. I added another example of what you might see.
They make an emotional connection that transcends different species.
It's only when everything that the hero holds dear is at stake, is that when the audience sees what he's made of.
It'd only be a downer ending if the prince or his surrogate family dies or his planet loses the war. Either one is a happy ending.
You misunderstand. I'm saying the zoo hypothesis solves the Fermi paradox in the world of my story. The aliens learned about humans a couple of decades ago but Earth still believes it's alone because the aliens haven't made First Contact yet and still won't until we've reached a certain moral and/or technological level.
The general is busy with the civil war to lead an invasion of Earth, which he'll do later. And the war broke out immediately. The prince was in grave danger so the king had to send his son to Earth.
Does it matter? A hero is a hero. I saw the protagonist as a male. (Probably because I wanted a minor nod to "Hamlet.")
It's just a movie. And a mainstream one at that so it needs a love interest.
"Twilight" meets "Superman" would actually make for a very good pitch. |
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| lamna | Feb 23 2011, 03:25 PM Post #23 |
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Well Twilight throws the different species thing out the window. Vampires are either corpses or different species, that makes aliens seem perfectly natural. Also, if I wanted to pick a place to hide my son in a war, I'd pick the one with the best military, armed civilian population and areas of both dense population and wilderness. USA looks like an idea hiding place to me. |
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| Mike | Feb 23 2011, 03:30 PM Post #24 |
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First of all, why do they fall in love? I hate it when there are couples who are all like "we love eachother, we have something deep you couldn't understand, blah blah blah, mushy gushy nonsense". So why do they love eachother? It may not seem like a major point, but all this love for the sake of love is one of the things that holds back a moving picture from being something great and deep and truly insightful. Secondly, teenagers. Every time the main character of some sort of action/adventure/epic is a teenager, I die a little inside. There is no reason for the main character to be a teenager. If anything it's counterintuitive. I mean, if I was an alien refugee hiding on earth, I would make myself older so I wouldn't have to go through the trouble of school. I don't know, the whole thing seems cringeworthy. I don't like it. I really don't like it. I'm sorry to be so harsh, I don't think it will be a very good movie at all. Perhaps if you change a lot of things around and have some meaning in it or something, then maybe you could make it memorable. But then again, I don't know. I thought megamind would be shit, still haven't seen it, but everybody tells me it's amazing. And you seem to be getting positive responses from people who aren't me, T.Neo and Watcher in the Puddle. So I don't know, keep working on it, maybe something good will come out of it. If you believe in it, then add some more details to the skeleton you gave us and keep us updated. |
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| bloom_boi | Feb 23 2011, 03:31 PM Post #25 |
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I usually cosidr vampires a human sub-species. |
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"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!" | |
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| bloom_boi | Feb 23 2011, 03:34 PM Post #26 |
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Ok...Mike... True, I hate child or teenagers saving the world or other especially large things. And I said I wouldn't watch the movie. Not even on U-Tube edit:CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM YOU GIT Hmmm.. I's just that theme has been done to death and I prefer serious or dark sci-fi. D9 ROCKS!! Edited by bloom_boi, Feb 23 2011, 04:08 PM.
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"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!" | |
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| SIngemeister | Feb 23 2011, 03:36 PM Post #27 |
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Prince William would disagree... BTW, wash your eyes after reading that. It's Daily Mail. Might want to scrub your screen. |
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| Holben | Feb 23 2011, 03:42 PM Post #28 |
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What's the point of hiding behind a human military against lifeforms superior enough to be able to ignore us?
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| colddigger | Feb 23 2011, 03:52 PM Post #29 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if they had a concept of sexes, it's just whether or not they have what we would consider "males" and "females", it's entirely possible that they had went down the route that sexual fungi have with sexes that cannot be distinguished as one or the other but rather + and - for convenience. Though I imagine that with his human male disguise comes all human male parts, he'd have no idea what to do with it. ;] |
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| Holben | Feb 23 2011, 03:53 PM Post #30 |
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Surely they'd brief him on the situation? Being advanced aliens with military power and that? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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