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@therealsilvermane

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    So you weren't actually curious about what books I like, you're just determined to try to prove me wrong about everything. Got it.
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    Two people falling in love is absolutely tension.
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    Character is character. Two guys in a bar isn't a story. If one of the guys tells the other guy "I'm sleeping with your wife. What are you going to do about it?" Now it's a story. Heck, you don't even really need characters to tell a story. The creation of the universe from a swirling mass of chaos to a place where life can exist is a story. Tension --> Resolution. That's story.
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    No, I look at places like Facebook group chats that aren't owned by Marvel. The film is still getting its share of people who hate the movie, but I'm seeing more comments saying the film is not as bad as they've been led to believe by the media.
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    Did I say that a movie should primarily be about metaphors? No I did not. Remember, you are the one who asked me expand upon the visual metaphors in Ang Lee's Hulk which you said were not in the movie and that I was just seeing things. As I posted above, all story is tension. It's how one tells that story that makes that story unique. Metaphors are just a way to help tell that story.
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    Story is tension. And the goal of the story is to resolve that tension.
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    Well, the original writer's bible is Aristotle's Poetics. I'm big on Edgar Allan Poe so his essay the Poetic Principle is therefore bigly for me. As for actual screenplay books I own, I do have Syd Field's Screenplay and Screenwriter's Workshop. The Screenwriter's Bible. Story by Robert McKee. Method Writing by Jack Grapes. A friend lent me his copy of Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder which I haven't read yet. My issue with a lot of the books similar to Syd Field's books is they give you the Hollywood formula for screenwriting, whereas my interest for a long time has been more independent and international cinema, which doesn't necessarily follow the Hollywood formula.
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    Okay these are pretty funny. Credit to you if you created these.
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    Nope, not a metaphor, Drax.
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    From someone constantly accusing me of straw-man arguments using one himself...first wonders if Eternals' 2 million views were mostly people who watched the required minutes to count as a view before turning it off, then concludes they were, then uses that "conclusion" as proof that Eternals is the worst MCU movie. What I'm actually seeing on social media (not here) is that a lot of MCU fans who skipped it at the movies and waited to see it on Disney+ are saying that the movie is nowhere near as bad as 50% of RT critics said it was, and that they actually enjoyed the movie.
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    Lil Nas X, ‘Pose,’ ‘Eternals’ & More Get 2022 GLAAD Media Award Noms It’s once again time for the GLAAD Media Awards, where the LGBTQ+ advocacy organization recognizes media for accurate and inclusive representation that pushes depictions of the LGBTQ+ community forward. Outstanding Film - Wide Release Eternals (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) Everybody's Talking About Jamie (Amazon Studios) The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Netflix) tick, tick... BOOM! (Netflix) West Side Story (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) https://www.out.com/media/2022/1/19/2022-glaad-media-award-nominations-full-list
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    Kevin Feige has this signal ready and waiting. The world needs more Captain Marvel.
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    Marvel's Eternals Racks Up Record-Breaking 2 Million View Debut on Disney+ Despite being trashed on Rotten Tomatoes and not quite delivering as expected in cinemas, Eternals has proven its worth on Disney+. When looking at the performance of Eternals, two million streams in five days is a decent figure, but comparing it outside the Marvel bubble with HBO Max movies like The Suicide Squad and The Matrix: Resurrections, the film didn’t gain the same amount of views as those two movies did in the same time period. Of course, both The Suicide Squad and The Matrix Resurrections were released on HBO Max at the same time as they made their cinematic debut, and when it comes to cinema audience numbers, the gross of those two movies combined was less than Eternals box office haul. Eternals also managed to pull in more views than either Cruella or Mulan, which both were given a day and date release on Disney+ and brought in 686,000 and 1.2 million respectively. https://movieweb.com/marvels-eternals-2-million-view-debut-disney-plus/
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    Flat earth videos are endlessly entertaining in their stupidity. The gift that keeps giving. Wait, are y'all trying to straw-man me by saying I'm a flat earther? Now I've seen everything here.
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    Sometimes being condescending is unavoidable when having to respond to some comments.
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    Irish leprechauns in an X-Men movie do not equal to gamma irradiated monster dogs in a Hulk movie. Not comparable at all.
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    Also try to learn to not take everything literally. When I said "stupid screenplay books", that was just a use of an expression for effect. I didn't mean to say screenplay books are actually stupid. Some are quite good. Some are actually stupid. When I said Christopher Nolan could have initially pitched to WB that he wants Batman Begins to be about fear, that was just a theoretical made-up scenario to drive home the point that the theme of the movie is fear. I didn't mean to say that that's actually how Nolan's initial Batman pitch went down.
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    Gamma dogs are a thing in the comics. Thematically, the Hulk dogs represented a kind of evolution of experimental Hulks throughout the movie. You saw a hulk frog, then a hulk rat, then hulk dogs, Bruce's human Hulk, and then David Banner's Hulk god at the end.
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    Chloe Zhao is known for, in the few films she's made, shooting with natural light. There are some articles and interviews that state that a lot of Eternals was indeed shot with natural lighting at real locations per Zhao's directorial wishes, though I'm not sure how much natural lighting was used in the Druig jungle community scene.
  21. @therealsilvermane
    In Druig's jungle village sequence, we see the sun is low. As time passes, the light is darker. It's obviously evening. How is that reading too much into the scene? I think you read too much into trying to contradict everything I say.
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    I don't expect you to believe anything I say at this point and to keep contrasting everything I say. The lengthy Hulk post above complete with video isn't just for you, it's also for myself and to just put it out there. If you're honest about trying to understand film, try doing reading more about visual metaphors in film. I have a feeling you think you know everything, though.
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    In the establishing wide shot over the Amazon, we see that the sun is low, so it's either daybreak or sunset. Once we're in Druig's village, there is much activity and fires going, so I assume it's dinnertime. Later in the day, the light is darker. So the Druig jungle community scene is in the evening as the sun is setting on Earth.
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    I'm always delighted to talk about one of my favorite super-hero films ever. Here is the opening credits scene for Hulk. The scene is itself a summation of the genetic nature of Hulk's origins. Notice the morphing nature of the Hulk logo itself, almost jelly-like. After that, the logo morphs into the jellyfish which is the first animal David Banner extracts "green" DNA from for his experiments which lead to the birth of the Hulk. Here is Bruce's first nightmare scene where the image of jellyfish appear again. The jellyfish represent the genetic side of Hulk's birth. Here is the scene of Bruce Banner's gamma lab accident which births the Hulk. At :53 seconds, we see the mushroom cloud of a gamma bomb that resembles the shape of a jellyfish. More metaphors. In the scene below, starting at 1:15, David Banner tells Betty Ross his entire original intention was "to go beyond God's boundaries" aka find freedom from the repression of the human shell. And in the final battle scene, starting at 3:45, as David Banner absorbs Bruce's power, he gets that wish and does "go beyond God's boundaries" and turns into a monster over Pear Lake, that looks just like a jellyfish or a nuclear bomb mushroom cloud, take your pick. Through those two powerful forces of nature, the genetic DNA of a jellyfish (among other things) and the power of the atom, David Banner becomes a Hulk God. The metaphors are plain as day. This is the kind of stuff I like.
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    You don't have to have personally met a director to understand their work or their intentions. I understand Ang Lee's films because I've seen many of his movies, read his own interviews (or James Schamus who co-wrote many of Ang's films), and watch them again seeing the things they talk about visualized in the films. Yes, you can do that, too.