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<blockquote data-quote="Vael" data-source="post: 7878125" data-attributes="member: 57043"><p>I get it, you're a self proclaimed great writer. But since we're keen on lessons, I'll share one that blew my mind just a few weeks ago.</p><p></p><p>One of my favourite shows growing up was Blackadder, a comedy starring a pre-Mr. Bean Rowan Atkinson. The final season/series, Blackadder Goes Forth, takes place during WW1, where Rowan's character, the titular Blackadder, was a soldier trying to escape the trenches through a various schemes. A sitcom version of Catch-22, so to speak.</p><p></p><p>The final episode, after all his comic attempts to avoid having to get out of the trenches and charge the enemy fail, Blackadder, along with all the other main characters, get out of the trenches and charge. And in a hail of machine gun fire, they're all cut down, and then the screen fades to a picture of poppies. A poignant ending to the show.</p><p></p><p>But that's not how it was written. Or filmed, for that matter. Blackadder was supposed to get away, finally achieving his goal by playing dead. But after shooting, in the editing room, it wasn't working. The effects looked cheap, and due to the small sound stage, the ending of the shot looked fake. And there wasn't the money to reshoot and fix it. So the editors trying slowing down the existing footage so they could cut before the camera saw the edge of the set. They added stock shot of poppies, and that was how we got, what I'd argue is a superior ending to the one that was written.</p><p></p><p>The point here, of course, is that film is more than what was on the page. And so it is that we got Laura Dern, in purple hair, displaying her qualifications as a BAMF, and the last stand of Vice Admiral Holdo. And between her skills, and the other actors, and the rest of the collaboration, I find it works. Not perfectly, but enough.</p><p></p><p>But if this is to be the end of our conversation, so be it. At least I won't have to keep fighting the urge to point out the snide quality of your comments about "strong women" as being ... illustrative.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vael, post: 7878125, member: 57043"] I get it, you're a self proclaimed great writer. But since we're keen on lessons, I'll share one that blew my mind just a few weeks ago. One of my favourite shows growing up was Blackadder, a comedy starring a pre-Mr. Bean Rowan Atkinson. The final season/series, Blackadder Goes Forth, takes place during WW1, where Rowan's character, the titular Blackadder, was a soldier trying to escape the trenches through a various schemes. A sitcom version of Catch-22, so to speak. The final episode, after all his comic attempts to avoid having to get out of the trenches and charge the enemy fail, Blackadder, along with all the other main characters, get out of the trenches and charge. And in a hail of machine gun fire, they're all cut down, and then the screen fades to a picture of poppies. A poignant ending to the show. But that's not how it was written. Or filmed, for that matter. Blackadder was supposed to get away, finally achieving his goal by playing dead. But after shooting, in the editing room, it wasn't working. The effects looked cheap, and due to the small sound stage, the ending of the shot looked fake. And there wasn't the money to reshoot and fix it. So the editors trying slowing down the existing footage so they could cut before the camera saw the edge of the set. They added stock shot of poppies, and that was how we got, what I'd argue is a superior ending to the one that was written. The point here, of course, is that film is more than what was on the page. And so it is that we got Laura Dern, in purple hair, displaying her qualifications as a BAMF, and the last stand of Vice Admiral Holdo. And between her skills, and the other actors, and the rest of the collaboration, I find it works. Not perfectly, but enough. But if this is to be the end of our conversation, so be it. At least I won't have to keep fighting the urge to point out the snide quality of your comments about "strong women" as being ... illustrative. [/QUOTE]
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