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| Topic Started: Feb 22 2011, 02:29 AM (5,480 Views) | |
| Yorick | Feb 23 2011, 06:55 PM Post #46 |
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And a non-American setting isn't necessary for a film to be profitable overseas.
This script and Coneheads (great comedy by the way) are completely different!
I never said I would do that.
And risk the prince returning and uniting the people against him? No way.
Don't worry. Hero gets a translation chip thing or whatever like in "Farscape" or "Animorphs." Communication won't be a problem.
Not my fault or my problem.
But why should mine be?
It's a movie. Don't overthink it. As he assimilates to his human body and human culture, he develops sexual and emotional attarction to a human. Unlikely in reality but this isn't reality, now is it?
Who's want to see a movie about that? And it's be easier and more comfortable for the prince to live and fight in a teen's body like he is.
Yeah but it's great comedy for the audience and then a great way to relate to the hero who is coming of age as the main teenage audience is coming of age.
I already explained to you that there iss no time for the hero to brush up on human biology and anthropology. The general is out for the entire family.
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| Jasonguppy | Feb 23 2011, 07:05 PM Post #47 |
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What about my comments? |
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| lamna | Feb 23 2011, 07:27 PM Post #48 |
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I'm listening to a dramatic reading of Midnight Sun by manwithoutabody and it's not physical attraction, it's her smelling delicious, and she can't read her mind and he needs to know what she thinks. I think teenagers are fine when used correctly. Gundam would never have worked if Amuro Ray was an adult or an child. Ok, there is so much discussion here I can't start to comment on it. I need sleep, work tomorrow. But I will say this. Mecha makes everything better. Evangelion if the main characters had used psychic attacks or somthing it would have been a dull decent into depression and confusing philosophy. But they use giant I can't think of many films where giant robots would not have helped improve them. And yes, T. Neo is a salty dick. I thought everyone knew that? Edited by lamna, Feb 23 2011, 07:30 PM.
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| Jasonguppy | Feb 23 2011, 07:39 PM Post #49 |
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| lamna | Feb 24 2011, 03:36 AM Post #50 |
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If he's just missing the very fact that he's alive will give hope to loyalists if they are anything like humans, and if he lies and says the prince is dead and then the prince returns he'll be utterly discredited. People would never trust him again. Maybe the general could offer to leave him alone on earth, but will try to kill him if he tries to return home so he has to choose between duty to his people and some hot alien ass. |
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| T.Neo | Feb 24 2011, 05:59 AM Post #51 |
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And this evolved how many times in metazoans, compared to motile gametes? ![]()
I don't know... again, look at evolutionary trends. As long as the wrinkle-surfaces manage good enough fluid transfer, maybe...
If he needs to include a cliche ending, the least he can do is put a novel spin on it. I'd like to throw this out there; if you are really looking to get noticed in the industry, try making short films first, on a low budget... that way, production companies will notice talent and will be more willing to consider a script, conventional or not. If you look at a lot of Neill Blomkamp's short films- particularly his adverts- you'll see that they're brilliant. That's why when Halo fell through, Peter Jackson effectively gave him 30 million USD and told him to make whatever film he wanted.
No. But it is cliche and it does annoy viewers from everywhere else that it's California over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
But the basic concept "Aliens In America"! is the same. Ok, so the circumstances are totally different... I'm just using it as an example. Just like I can use Independance Day as an example. To quote Monsters vs. Aliens (also a film where aliens land in America);
That's the least of his worries. Any ideologue can unite the people against him...
Translation... chip? That's supposed to not make me worry? Like in Animporhs?
Still something you should keep in mind as a writer.
The question is not why, but why not. ![]()
That's exactly the kind of attitude that leads to a dumb movie. Y'know, like where noisy space shuttles pull 10 gs flying around snot-shaped asteroid fragments. Or where lunar landers secretly discover spaceships piloted by transforming robots. Handwave or not, the obvious implausibility (and squick, even from the prince's point of view) would make the romance a Token Romance, regardless of the relevance to the plot of the actual film.
I could call adolescence many things but "easy and comfortable". A lot of people would want to see a movie about old people... some of my favourite fictional characters are old people. Of course, you have to make the character relatable, but this is universal for all characters. Older people are just that: people, who are older. Considering that we're dealing with an alien here, the existence of old people is not that worrying...
I can't think of a better way to 'come of age' than to live in the shoes of a person who is of great age... Depends on how you look at the film. "Great comedy for the teenage audience" just as easily translates to "unfunny overused cliche film". Which is what critics- most of them- will see it as. Which will in turn affect the opinions of moviegoers themselves.
I think walking him to the spacecraft would be time enough to explain the workings of "that dangly organ"...
How does "smelling delicious" relate to sexual attraction? I like the smell of flowers, but it's not like I engage in florasexuality...
I only vaguely know what Gundam is, but I agree. Problem is, most modern films don't use them correctly, thematically speaking. It's the same old rubbish over and over and over again.
How is that relevant? ![]() Ok, if you use it right, it is awesome... District 9 exo-suit... yeah... Fifty foot tall man-shaped robot? I'm having trouble seeing how that would work outside of anime...
Ahem, lamna. Soutpiel (salt-penis) is an offensive term used to refer to British people... (you have one leg in South Africa, the other leg in Britain, and your penis dangles in the ocean). You indirectly just insulted the common heritage of both of us! ![]()
Maybe... he could always fake the death of the prince, but that doesn't remove the risk of him returning.
You mean, catfish equivalent woman?
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| Yorick | Feb 24 2011, 01:21 PM Post #52 |
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Thanks but no way. It has to be the prince's sole decision between good choice and another good choice. The question is: which is the better choice? Obviously the prince would choose staying on Earth and be with his loved ones instead of risking certain death by returning to his home planet. They key to any good ending is an honest one. Love or honor. Those are his only two choices and only he can make it for himself.
There's nothing cliche about it. It's just good storytelling. All good stories need conflict.
I'll give you that it's cliche setting it in California but certainly not in America.
With that kind of absurd logic, that means "Toy Story" is just like the horror flick "Child's Play!"
But a member of the royal dyynasty is the biggest threat.
Yes. Exactly. What's the problem?
I do. Hence some of my female-centric stories. But I won't accomodate anybody.
I don't have to make the romance believable. Just make audiences believe it.
No one wants to see a sci action movie about old geezers!
I highly doubt that. "Roswell" lasted three seasons, "Smallville" will last 10 and "I Am Number Four" is a minor hit at the box office right now. I'm sure many moviegoers will watch the coming of age story of an alien on Earth.
King doesn't expect his son to get into any romantic entanglements. Just keep his head down and live normally. |
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| bloom_boi | Feb 24 2011, 01:41 PM Post #53 |
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Why don't you just use a babel fish silly boy.
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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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| colddigger | Feb 24 2011, 01:48 PM Post #54 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Now hang on just a second there, that's not fair, if you look at sponges it's obvious that metazoans evolved from flagellum using motile cells, so of course most metazoan gametes are going to be such since the further back you go the more primitive gametes will have flagella. |
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| SIngemeister | Feb 24 2011, 01:54 PM Post #55 |
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I always thought T.Neo was a Yank. Now, I shall do nothing but bug you about FOKKIN PRONNS! |
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| T.Neo | Feb 24 2011, 02:40 PM Post #56 |
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Who says it's good storytelling? Who says it's the only kind of storytelling? Who says it isn't cliche? All good stories need conflict? Yes, but: do they all need the same kind of conflict that happens in the same kind of way? No.
Name one notable science fiction film (other than District 9) that is not set in the US...
My logic isn't absurd, you just misinterpreted it. Toy Story and "Child's Play" are two totally different genres, this and Coneheads are one genre (science fiction), even if they aren't the same 'type' of film.
Indeed he is... then again, there's a chance he might be a complete spoilt brat who would never be able to lead any sort of revolution or side in a civil war.
How about: Everything. Starting with the fact that the mechanism by which it would supposedly work is rubbish, and that you can't perfectly translate every word in a language, especially as lexicons change.
Only if they're the kind of mental laypeople who will lap up anything put on a silver screen...
Old... geezers? I do. You can hate me for it all you want.
Yes. Because it has been done a number of times, and is tired and cliche. Just look at all the works of fiction you just cited!
I hope he expects him to know how to use the bathroom though. ![]()
Even if you don't have motile cells, doesn't mean you can't suspend reproductive cells in some sort of fluid that is delivered through a... probe and drogue docking mechanism. They could fuse to the inside of the uterus-analogous organ, for example.
A Yank? Great Scott Slngemeister, a Yank? I have to hand it to you though, quite amusing. ![]() Maybe I need to de-americanise myself some more...
Ja bru, bring it on with them FOKKIN PROWNS!
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| SIngemeister | Feb 24 2011, 02:46 PM Post #57 |
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To be fair, the majority of people here are Yanks. The Brits and Australians announce their nationalities. I just assumed |
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| Yorick | Feb 24 2011, 03:10 PM Post #58 |
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The prince IS spoiled brat. The film is about his growth from brat who cares only for himself to hero who cares about others. The rest of your complaints are baseless and unnecessary. |
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| colddigger | Feb 24 2011, 03:26 PM Post #59 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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There's not much purpose in delivering immobile cells in a fluid, they'd most likely die before fusing with the acceptor's gametes, unless this was done on the level of pollen. Even then it'd have to be lead directly to the other gamete and forced along by something else... perhaps pressure from a fluid... But of course assuming that there IS a uterus analogue in these beastial loving aliens I suppose the distributor's gametes could fuse to the wall after being released and wait it out for the acceptors gametes to eventually make their way to them. But then there could always be a love spike thrown in to make things squick, just for laughs. |
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| Scrublord | Feb 24 2011, 03:32 PM Post #60 |
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Was this film meant to be live-action, all-CGI, hand-drawn animation, or some combination of the above? |
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