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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   2857 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 14, 2023

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I think because of the CGI available and the ability to do showstopper stunts, more action movies seem to skimp on writing. Star Wars: A New Hope really had no choice but to be well written simply because the special effects available in 1977 were not all that great and were much more expensive (because they were all practical effects requiring miniatures and matte painting and sets that actually blew up. If you didn’t have a strong plot and interesting characters, rotoscoped swords and miniature ships weren’t going to save it. Leía, Luke, and Han made it. The characters came alive, and you wanted them to escape, you wanted the Death Star to explode. The writing was tight enough to give everyone stakes in the outcome and to make you care. What forced that was that you had no choice but to tell a story. If you’d take Rise of Skywalker and redid it with film technology available in the 1970s it would be a complete failure because without the ability to do crazy things in cgi, there’s nothing to sell. No stakes, no redemption arc, no real, fleshed out villain to boo and hiss.

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