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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6679147" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p>The influence of TV is understated, mostly because a movie can make so much more money. However, a successful movie has an audience of maybe 2 million people worldwide. A successful TV show (or TV movie) can match that... in one country. Popular blockbusters can clear more, but that's rare.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Xena was incredibly influential. Lucy Lawless scored a guest spot on Simpsons. There were a dozen copycat shows in the wake of that program. We could only hope D&D was a third as influential.</p><p></p><p>That said, it's certainly not the tone I want in a D&D film. </p><p></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Buffy is <em>exactly</em> the tone I'd like. Things were serious in Sunnydale. There were deaths and horror and craziness, but the characters were constantly irrelevant and cracking jokes, and there was a wry wit throughout. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Watch the <em>Get Smart</em> movie again. There's a great scene where <a href="https://youtu.be/z6DJPSW_hok" target="_blank">Max is captured</a>. He says "You underestimated me. And the element of surprise!" And throws a phone, missing the person holding him at gunpoint. Funny. Then he shoves a table and kicks the guys ass. The movie moves effortlessly between the two extremes. So much of that movie is played straight. The villain. Straight. The stakes. Straight. The fights. Straight. Replace Max with a generic spy and most of the movie would flow normally and work just fine. But it would be as generic and unoriginal as &^%$@. One of a thousand other spy movies.</em></p><p><em>Ditto <em>Ghostbusters</em>. The abduction on Dana Barrett is terrifying. Gozer is scary. The world IS ending. The giant hounds are frightening. It wouldn't take much to swap out the comedy lines and make it into a real action movie. Heck, if you watch the film as a kid you totally miss 90% of the humour and it is a straight movie about people fighting ghosts. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>D&D shouldn't be a parody. But playing it straight is a damn risky move because everything in D&D is so, well, paint-by-numbers. If you don't try for intentional comedy it's very, very easy to hit accidental comedy and just make a cheesy ridiculous mess. Or a bland, flavourless, joyless movie without the magic and wonder of <em>Lord of the Rings</em>. After all, there's already generic fantasy movies out there. <em>Willow</em>. <em>Dragonslayer</em>. <em>Dragonheart</em>. That's been done D&D has to offer something new, a twist or variation on the genre. </em></p><p><em>D&D has a lot of novels and stories to its name, but NONE of them compare to the wealth of other novels that are already available, many of which are public domain and the rights could be acquired for nothing. That's not enough of a twist, especially since few of the novels are more than generic fantasy.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6679147, member: 37579"] The influence of TV is understated, mostly because a movie can make so much more money. However, a successful movie has an audience of maybe 2 million people worldwide. A successful TV show (or TV movie) can match that... in one country. Popular blockbusters can clear more, but that's rare. Xena was incredibly influential. Lucy Lawless scored a guest spot on Simpsons. There were a dozen copycat shows in the wake of that program. We could only hope D&D was a third as influential. That said, it's certainly not the tone I want in a D&D film. [I] Buffy is [I]exactly[/I] the tone I'd like. Things were serious in Sunnydale. There were deaths and horror and craziness, but the characters were constantly irrelevant and cracking jokes, and there was a wry wit throughout. Watch the [I]Get Smart[/I] movie again. There's a great scene where [URL="https://youtu.be/z6DJPSW_hok"]Max is captured[/URL]. He says "You underestimated me. And the element of surprise!" And throws a phone, missing the person holding him at gunpoint. Funny. Then he shoves a table and kicks the guys ass. The movie moves effortlessly between the two extremes. So much of that movie is played straight. The villain. Straight. The stakes. Straight. The fights. Straight. Replace Max with a generic spy and most of the movie would flow normally and work just fine. But it would be as generic and unoriginal as &^%$@. One of a thousand other spy movies. Ditto [I]Ghostbusters[/I]. The abduction on Dana Barrett is terrifying. Gozer is scary. The world IS ending. The giant hounds are frightening. It wouldn't take much to swap out the comedy lines and make it into a real action movie. Heck, if you watch the film as a kid you totally miss 90% of the humour and it is a straight movie about people fighting ghosts. D&D shouldn't be a parody. But playing it straight is a damn risky move because everything in D&D is so, well, paint-by-numbers. If you don't try for intentional comedy it's very, very easy to hit accidental comedy and just make a cheesy ridiculous mess. Or a bland, flavourless, joyless movie without the magic and wonder of [I]Lord of the Rings[/I]. After all, there's already generic fantasy movies out there. [I]Willow[/I]. [I]Dragonslayer[/I]. [I]Dragonheart[/I]. That's been done D&D has to offer something new, a twist or variation on the genre. D&D has a lot of novels and stories to its name, but NONE of them compare to the wealth of other novels that are already available, many of which are public domain and the rights could be acquired for nothing. That's not enough of a twist, especially since few of the novels are more than generic fantasy.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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