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August 28, 2005

"Narrative Causality? Not for this film, thanks!"

Just saw The Brothers Grimm... the more and more I think about it, the more and more I wonder how in the world I was entertained watching it. It's because I can forgive about anything if it's based on a good concept. But they barely even used the concept. Fuck, I dunno. Watch it at your own risk.
Fanfiction again tonight. I'm judging, though, so I think I'm going to fiddle with the Crappyasst webpage for a bit. I think I've come up with a format for the 'cast. I think the most focused yet entertaining part was the horrid roundtable question asked in the first episode. So I think my plan is to create a list of part horrid, part not roundtable questions for each episode. We'll be more focused, and, I dunno. We'll see if it helps. Essner seems to have faith we can do a decent podcast, and I believe the man.
But seriously, how did I enjoy it... maybe because I'm... I dunno.
Have you ever flipped through the Discworld Roleplaying thingy? I wouldn't necessarily suggest it, but it has some interesting thoughts about how Terry Pratchett sets up his world, since he wrote a large portion of the book. And the most interesting concept to me in it is the concept of "Narrative Causality." The book spends about a page or so discussing what this means, but I think I can pretty well sum it up in a sentence, so I'm going to now try. Narrative Causality is the fact that the universe is following a plot, determined by how people want to see stories end, and if you can come up with a more interesting plot than the one that's currently occuring, the universe's plotline will fall in line. This concept is definately used in the Discworld novels, if you've read any of them. Perhaps not thrown at you, but it's there.
If The Brothers Grimm had used this concept throughout the movie, it would have been amazing. But it vaugely hints at it, but doesn't. And this is why I could love it when I was watching it (because I could pretend it WAS there, active) but then afterwards, looking back, it looked so completely retarded in my mind. A shame to see the concept go to waste.
Alright, off to the bad HTML that I do.

Posted by poetfox at August 28, 2005 07:21 PM

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Bad movies happen. There’s nothing we as a movie going public can do to stop them from happening. It’s not necessarily the movie’s fault that it’s bad. It might even have a bevy of talented people working on it, but it will still be bad. This is the story of one such bad movie.

Stealth was born in a small suburb of Chicago called Clarence. His parents Tony and Bernice Mory were both school teachers, and they hated him. Stealth was ugly, and not easy to get along with. He was also incredibly stupid, but he made up for it by being pushy and arrogant. Stealth would frequently set fire to his neighbors and eat their mail. One time he totally stabbed a guy for no reason at all.

"When the aircraft fly by the camera going Mach 3, we hear the sound of them passing right as they go by. This would not happen because Mach 3 is three times faster than the speed of sound; therefore we would hear the planes *after* we saw them pass by."

"When the Private Corporation's hangar explodes, and everyone outside is thrown backwards, you can see where the harness wires are on the men that "fly" backwards. Their flannel jackets "tent" outwards behind their shoulder blades."

The following is paid message from the people who liked stealth society:
"I eat my feces and don't have a brain"

Here's an ASCI art tribute to Stealth:

^%%^
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PENIS

*the art is now over*

Posted by: piman at August 28, 2005 08:42 PM

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