EB movie brainstorm thread

[jirisys]

I know it can be done that way. I know it can be done well. But then again, it wouldnt make justice to the time period, it would be bastardized to make it appear flashy...

Flashy how? I can think of many ways to make it a bit more slow of course, or so that the characters convey more boredom, annoyance, etc. But I'm not sure what you mean by this.

I have watched movies, thank you. In fact, I have watched them quite a lot. Note the post I commented.

I'm sorry, but you incited me to do it.

Most ordinary people are not kings nor generals nor murderous nor traitorous. Instead they are most likely like you or me. I don't know many people who would like to see a movie about themselves - expect if those movie-them would be facing a non-ordinary situation. By the way, something makes me think Pride and Prejudice is about ordinary people in non-ordinary situation. I actually think you said it yourself.

You wouldn't make a movie about peasants farming, why would you? Because it's not exactly a story worth telling, movies are about stories, stories that are interesting and can make a person feel different emotions thanks to the characters in them (Adam Sandler doesn't know about this) wether it is to make us laugh, to make us soil our armours, or to tug on our heart strings.

Point is, it's not necessary to watch 14 hours of men standing still in a battlefield to emulate the reality of how it really happened, a good filmmaker can think of many clever ways to tell us this.

~Jirisys ()