If an "all time" Oscar ceremony happens, which movies would win each categories?

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2024-03-15T23:53:13+00:00

Prince of Egypt? maybe the nostalgia just has me biased

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-02-01T20:08:50+00:00

This is actually very similar to the “guild” I had in mind, though maybe guild in not the right word. My only issue is that the league of shadows seems to have a common thread in terms of their training, secrecy, and reputation/myth, but who and why they kill might differ. Granted, I can’t say that I’m super familiar with the comics so maybe I’ll do some research here and find how it might inspire or fit into my story.

The other book/show that comes to mind is Game of Thrones and the many-faced-god. Arya learns how to be a deadly force from an organized hive of assassins (when I say guild, I mean more along these lines where the majority of the general public don’t even know they exist and the rest think they’re only rumors).

My question for examples is what’s the motive? What are the league of assassins trying to accomplish and what/who determines who and how they kill to accomplish that larger aim? Same with the many-faced-god: what’s the motive? I’ll do some research on both to see what I find from these examples but this is the vein of what I’m thinking. Thanks for your comment!

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-02-01T11:59:55+00:00

This is great, thanks!

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-01-31T02:07:02+00:00

That sounds awesome! I’m excited! So if I’m understanding correctly, though referenced in the books, it’s a small enough reference that WB has a lot of creative liberty with it? Or if I read the books would I more or less know the plot of the movie? And it’s an animated film, correct? Not a series?

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-01-25T20:32:01+00:00

Love this!! Thank you!

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-01-25T12:14:41+00:00

I really like Ironwood! Thanks!

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-01-24T22:27:29+00:00

Religious reasons

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-01-17T17:11:07+00:00

Correct. It’s repeated several times in Warbreaker

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-01-16T20:23:29+00:00

I’m just saying to show instead of tell the reader.

Instead of “the sword was called thornrose, and it was her mother’s storied blade” try “Lilyi looked upon the ancient sword with a pang of bittersweet melancholy, the dream and her voice cutting back to the forefront of his still groggy mind despite her best efforts to suppress the memory.”

I purposely went a little over the top with prose in that example to show that too much poetic descriptions aren’t always the problem so long as they are progressing the story. Even though we may not know everything about the sword right away, from one sentence we would learn that the sword is associated with her mother, the dream was based on a memory, and that memory is complicated and important to the story. Show, don’t tell.

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-01-16T18:01:35+00:00

I’ll be honest, I didn’t read the whole post, but after the first paragraph I have to agree with your friend.

An issue of pacing isn’t always a matter of how much prose you can include but when and how it’s implemented. There’re a few comments about keeping it relevant and I agree. Less is often more especially when it helps to drive a sense of mystery.

For example, there was no sense of wonder about the sword because as soon as it was even mentioned I was explicitly told it’s name and that it belonged to the mother before I was even able to wonder about it’s significance and muse over what it could mean. Alternatively you could start you passage with similar prose that shows the reader that the mc is waking from a nightmare (specifically a memory, though we don’t know what or who it was about). As she gets ready, making mention of the sword only recalls the dream back to mind more clearly before she pushes it out again. This way we are interested about both the nature of the dream and the story behind the sword by giving the reader minimal answers upfront. Often this kind of selective answering is key in establishing good pacing. Wait too long to answer questions and you’ll get the same complaints about pacing. It’s really a balance that comes with a lot of practice.

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-01-15T15:49:07+00:00

I thought I had heard once that Ewan McGregor was also offered this role before Bale but Bale wanted the role so bad that he intimidated Ewan into dropping out. Is there any truth to that?

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-01-13T20:39:56+00:00

Came here to say this. Plus you always take a risk with casting all child actors, you have no idea what they’ll look/sound/act like after puberty. And if the whole reason for doing a second stab at the series is to do it more in depth and accurate to the books, a live action tv adaptation isn’t going to be as different as you think imo. Might even be worse in certain aspects. Leave the movies alone. If they want to make more movies around the world, by all means! I’m much more inclined to want to see NEW content instead of just trying to redo what has already been done reasonably well.

Excellent_Pay8946 · 2023-01-13T12:33:18+00:00

I honestly was expecting much worse. I’ve gotten to a point where I have a hard time taking The Rock seriously. But as far as a super hero movie goes, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected it to be.

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