Miscellaneous Movie Musings

scaeagles · 06-09-2006, 11:37 AM

But how many different ways can you tell a story about, say, abduction? There can be hundreds of different reasons why someone was abducted, and the same number of ways to try to rescue someone who was abducted, and those can make the story more interesting, but the key is development of characters that you care about within that story of abduction.

I think this is why Hollywood is focusing more and more on special effect movies. The plots are pretty much the same, so they try to cover for that with bigger special effects to make it more visually interesting.

Gemini Cricket · 06-09-2006, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

The plots are pretty much the same, so they try to cover for that with bigger special effects to make it more visually interesting.

What's that saying? "You can put lipstick on a pig..."

06-09-2006, 11:37 AM	#1
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	But how many different ways can you tell a story about, say, abduction? There can be hundreds of different reasons why someone was abducted, and the same number of ways to try to rescue someone who was abducted, and those can make the story more interesting, but the key is development of characters that you care about within that story of abduction. I think this is why Hollywood is focusing more and more on special effect movies. The plots are pretty much the same, so they try to cover for that with bigger special effects to make it more visually interesting.
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