(small) Issues and items I'd like resolved w/ Serenity
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Monday, August 9, 2004 18:32
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"As for the lines, it's not so much ' louder' that they need to be delievered, just ...from time to time more directed, or w/ a slight pause."
The problem with that is that it's very theatrical but not so much realistic. I see it in movies and sitcoms all the time, and it ALWAYS draws me out of the reality of what I'm watching. It's not such a big deal in a cartoonish universe like those of the 'Terminator' (Hasta la vista, baby!). But in a world that DEPENDS on the reality created to sell its premise, you can afford to use such stage gimmicks. If you're joking with friends, you don't pause for an imaginary audience. Nor shoot our BDHs. Either a character's witty and they'll be confident enough to know it or they don't understand what's so damn funny and shouldn't act like they do - Imagine if Adam Baldwin paused for effect everytime Jayne said something hilariously stupid; it'd kill the audience's belief in the character and add about twenty minutes to the running time:)
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Originally posted by CGRealms:
Imagine if Adam Baldwin paused for effect everytime Jayne said something hilariously stupid; it'd kill the audience's belief in the character and add about twenty minutes to the running time
Well put. Reminds me of a post in another thread, a pitch (with dialogue) of Firefly redone as '"Friends", in Space'. Brilliantly sketched -- horrifying.
Put me down as prefering conversation to speechmaking. Firefly is chock full of the former, and the latter is scarce; that's part of why I love the show.
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Originally posted by StarPilotGrainger:
The only issue I'd like to see resolved is for the people involved in production to understand the sense of scale in space. Too many 'really close, extremely slow flybys' without a good explanation in the series kind of annoyed me, and I want them to decide once and for all if it's one solar system or several, and stick to it.
Me too. However, I don't mind if the Joss tries to keep it ambiguous, just so long as he knows what it's supposed to be, and doesn't let anything creep in that violates his premise. Last thing I want is a movie in which Serenity travels in space several times, over distances that are variously global, interplanetary, and interstellar.
Hint: Don't mention distances in space. Define trips in terms of time.
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Originally posted by YT:
Hint: Don't mention distances in space. Define trips in terms of time.
Yeah, don't make the mistake George Lucas did by saying the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel run in so many "parsecs." Parsec is a measure of distance, not time.
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I hope they don't change either of the things brought up. The grimy, not perfect FX are totally cool. It's like they still can't make things look perfectly real, but they're getting better at the imperfections that make something look real. I watched the "Hellboy" DVD this weekend and it's effects weren't bad, but they just reminded me of how good the Zoic crew did.
Plus, the off-handedness and just slipped in is cool. It's a reason "Firefly" is worth watching again and again. For a look at a Whedon line said wrong, look at Halle Berry's "When a toad gets struck by lighting..." comment in "X-Men" (Whedon talks about this in an interview with the Onion AV Club)
Dan
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ecgordon wrote:
Monday, August 09, 2004 01:12
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Originally posted by YT:
Hint: Don't mention distances in space. Define trips in terms of time.
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Yeah, don't make the mistake George Lucas did by saying the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel run in so many "parsecs." Parsec is a measure of distance, not time.
The "Kessel run" is a run between 2 points but with a dense black hole region in the middle. Normal travel is made by a circuitous route around the intense gravitational feilds. Smugglers run the gauntlet and thread their way through the gravitational tides.
So, making the "Kessel run" in 12 parsecs might conceivably be a boast of shortest possible route?
Or maybe Lucas stuffed it up. He certainly stuffed up the first 2 prequels...
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Originally posted by witlesschum:
Plus, the off-handedness and just slipped in is cool. It's a reason "Firefly" is worth watching again and again. For a look at a Whedon line said wrong, look at Halle Berry's "When a toad gets struck by lighting..." comment in "X-Men" (Whedon talks about this in an interview with the Onion AV Club)
Dan
Ah ha! Now that you've pointed out that that was a Joss line, I can totally hear how it was supposed to sound! Darn you Halle Berry! You couldn't be bothered to watch 3 episodes of Buffy to prepare?
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Yeah, he says in the interview, which is pre-Firefly, IIRC, that his script was all gone except two lines. That one and "Prove it. You're a dick", which was the best pun in the movie. He also talks about how a lot of "Speed" but only a bit of "Twister" was his stuff.
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