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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8749391" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Very good post. </p><p></p><p>When I say things like, "Sometimes less is more.", this is exactly what I'm thinking about. There is a point when you go bigger that you don't make more of an emotional impact, you make of less of one. For me one of these points is when things seem to happen because of power of plot and not because of internal logic of the setting. Like for me, Oliphants maybe a little bit larger than Columbian Mammoths would have been sufficient. When they are like 60' high at the shoulder, the hero killing one seems less of a feat than it would have been if they were smaller and more grounded in reality because the scene would have felt more grounded in reality and less in movie logic and things happen just because plot. It's the same problem as it's very hard for Superman to have a real moment of awesomeness because his powers are always limited to power of plot anyway that when he does something it's always pretty ho hum, of course he did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 8749391, member: 4937"] Very good post. When I say things like, "Sometimes less is more.", this is exactly what I'm thinking about. There is a point when you go bigger that you don't make more of an emotional impact, you make of less of one. For me one of these points is when things seem to happen because of power of plot and not because of internal logic of the setting. Like for me, Oliphants maybe a little bit larger than Columbian Mammoths would have been sufficient. When they are like 60' high at the shoulder, the hero killing one seems less of a feat than it would have been if they were smaller and more grounded in reality because the scene would have felt more grounded in reality and less in movie logic and things happen just because plot. It's the same problem as it's very hard for Superman to have a real moment of awesomeness because his powers are always limited to power of plot anyway that when he does something it's always pretty ho hum, of course he did. [/QUOTE]
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