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WCDT: Dec 20th to 24th, 2021 (4681 to ????)
Scarlet Manuka:
It never snows here, but I wish it would.
It would take a true miracle for it to snow at Christmas time, however. This year our city's forecast for Christmas day is currently for 42°C (108°F).
Our area of the city is slighty worse, too:
------- Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon
City 32 35 38 42 41 40
Us 33 39 43 43 43 42
The only kind of white Christmas we get is white-hot.
Beast_Reborn:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 20 Dec 2021, 18:52 ---Screenwriters write what sells or they go hungry, producers decide what sells. We'll never know how many good screenwriters there are that never get their work shown.
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Well, ultimately, consumers decide what sells. There's certainly a place for extremely realistic fiction, but most people don't actually want to see real life duplicated too closely in art. Real life often fails to be funny, exciting, and/or emotionally moving.
If there's anyone who doesn't understand the new strip, this is recommended viewing.
Tova:
Okay, so while Hollywood is obviously confected, I just wanted to throw in an opinion that the suggestion that people in 90% them don't behave "even remotely like actual humans act" is maybe an overstatement, maybe even hyperbole. I mean, there's usually a remote resemblance. Sometimes even a reasonable resemblance. :lol:
Sometimes it's deliberately entertaining nonsense, sometimes it's constructed so they can tell a story in 2 hours, sometimes it's (as people in the industry are sometimes wont to say) a lie to tell a deeper truth.
But also, there's a unstated assumption that realistic writing is better writing, and to that I would say, well, it depends. On one hand you don't want to lose your audience's willing suspension of disbelief, but on the other, 100% realism could be seen as... well, dull.
Of course, realism is a legitimate genre of film, and if that's your preference, then power to you. But that's stepping into subjective territory.
To get back to QC itself, I wouldn't call the behaviour of QC characters terribly realistic. There's a lot of stuff in QC that is real, for sure. But there are some aspects that are not terribly realistic as well.
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--- Quote from: Beast_Reborn on 20 Dec 2021, 19:34 ---There's certainly a place for extremely realistic fiction, but most people don't actually want to see real life duplicated too closely in art. Real life often fails to be funny, exciting, and/or emotionally moving.
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Yeah, as I said, only put somewhat better than I managed. :-)
snubnose:
Why realistic fiction ?
This new tv show Arcane for example, a fantasy story based on a computer game, was good at this. Everyone has comprehensible motives for what they do. Even the villains are the heroes of their own plot.
Thats good storywriting right there.
It was also really good in many other respects. For example the combat was very realistic (ignoring of course fictional elements like strength items).
Tova:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 20 Dec 2021, 19:40 ---Everyone has comprehensible motives for what they do. Even the villains are the heroes of their own plot.
Thats good storywriting right there.
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Those are both fine and good elements of storytelling, but a film with characters whose motives are not at all easily comprehended, and villains who are their own worst enemy, do not necessarily in and of themselves unrealistic or bad films make.
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