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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8001224" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>I loved Thor Ragnarok, but the humour in that film 100% would not have worked had the characters of Thor, Hulk, Loki etc not already been established in the previous films. Marvel's humour (which I very much enjoy, don't get me wrong!) is heavily based on riffing on the familiar. Guardians of the Galaxy's humour riffed heavily on the whole 70s music/culture thing. Most of the more recent Marvel films are able to riff on previous Marvel films, and the characters that have been built up over a dozen-odd hours of screentime. Damn near every Nick Fury joke in the entire series has riffed off the audience's knowledge of the roles Samuel L Jackson has played previously. And so on and so on.</p><p></p><p>That style of referential humour can be a double-edged sword. It's good because at it's best it's immersive and the humour itself can be a way of illustrating characters, so it can be incorporated naturally without having to write the entire script around the jokes. The downside is that you risk stuffing the films so full of in-jokes that you baffle people unfamilar with what you're referencing. That'd be the risk with a D&D movie. You'd be working with a tabula rasa, with characters you'd have to establish from scratch. You have to build them up before you can use them to their fullest extent in the humour, and the sort of pop culture jokes that GotG was so heavy on would be ridiculously anachronistic in a D&D film. </p><p></p><p>Not saying it can't be done, but it'd need an excellent scriptwriter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8001224, member: 5948"] I loved Thor Ragnarok, but the humour in that film 100% would not have worked had the characters of Thor, Hulk, Loki etc not already been established in the previous films. Marvel's humour (which I very much enjoy, don't get me wrong!) is heavily based on riffing on the familiar. Guardians of the Galaxy's humour riffed heavily on the whole 70s music/culture thing. Most of the more recent Marvel films are able to riff on previous Marvel films, and the characters that have been built up over a dozen-odd hours of screentime. Damn near every Nick Fury joke in the entire series has riffed off the audience's knowledge of the roles Samuel L Jackson has played previously. And so on and so on. That style of referential humour can be a double-edged sword. It's good because at it's best it's immersive and the humour itself can be a way of illustrating characters, so it can be incorporated naturally without having to write the entire script around the jokes. The downside is that you risk stuffing the films so full of in-jokes that you baffle people unfamilar with what you're referencing. That'd be the risk with a D&D movie. You'd be working with a tabula rasa, with characters you'd have to establish from scratch. You have to build them up before you can use them to their fullest extent in the humour, and the sort of pop culture jokes that GotG was so heavy on would be ridiculously anachronistic in a D&D film. Not saying it can't be done, but it'd need an excellent scriptwriter. [/QUOTE]
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