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Post by Charlie on Mar 25, 2013 2:21:42 GMT -5
I think it was a fail. Just because it was distressing to actually watch. It was like "Oh my god, why are you doing this to one of my favourite stories. Argh the pain." It felt very overdramaticised. I think an anime might'nt be the best suited to it. But hey, I just haven't seen a lot of serious anime, so I'm probably wrong
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Mar 25, 2013 6:52:11 GMT -5
I think it was a fail. Just because it was distressing to actually watch. It was like "Oh my god, why are you doing this to one of my favourite stories. Argh the pain." It felt very overdramaticised. I think an anime might'nt be the best suited to it. But hey, I just haven't seen a lot of serious anime, so I'm probably wrong Yeah. My friend (who likes ASOUE) told me it was confusing and it was mixed up. She said,"It's alright from the beginning, but then it suddenly moves to the second book, without the first being complete! Then after Monty dies we move to the third (book), and only after Olaf finally gets those orphans (specifically Violet) and finally the marriage part is there. And why the marriage thing is changed?!!! It's like, totally ruined." Yeah, but I just thought anime will be better suited. Ah, the plot.
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Post by Dante on Mar 25, 2013 8:30:51 GMT -5
To be honest, I think the movie's approach to the chronology of the books it adapted was the best way it could adapt them; the episodic approach of the original books could only really be replicated in an episodic format, like, indeed, a cartoon or anime (or television series).
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 25, 2013 9:35:15 GMT -5
I am inclined to agree. Moving the marriage scene to the end of the film gave the movie an overall continuity not present in the scenes selected from the early books; the rearrangement allowed for the three novels to be put together without giving the appearance of three films combined into one.
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Post by Strangely on Mar 25, 2013 12:11:15 GMT -5
I am inclined to agree. Moving the marriage scene to the end of the film gave the movie an overall continuity not present in the scenes selected from the early books; the rearrangement allowed for the three novels to be put together without giving the appearance of three films combined into one. I agree as well. There's no studio crazy enough to greenlight thirteen movies. And even if some movie studio magically decided to make thirteen movies there's no way child actors would look the same age long enough to film them. All in all the movie we got was pretty much the only way to handle a movie version. While it may not be a great adaptation of the books it is still a very good movie by itself. Ultimately the books were better suited for a miniseries or show rather than a movie. And undoubtedly animation would be the only medium that could keep the characters the correct ages for the entirety of the story. But again I don't see the point of making it an anime specifically. And what about anime really lends itself to ASOUE. After all the books already have it's own visual style, so what is anime really going to do for it that any other form of animation wouldn't?
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Mar 25, 2013 12:43:05 GMT -5
I agree as well. There's no studio crazy enough to greenlight thirteen movies. And even if some movie studio magically decided to make thirteen movies there's no way child actors would look the same age long enough to film them. All in all the movie we got was pretty much the only way to handle a movie version. While it may not be a great adaptation of the books it is still a very good movie by itself. Ultimately the books were better suited for a miniseries or show rather than a movie. And undoubtedly animation would be the only medium that could keep the characters the correct ages for the entirety of the story. But again I don't see the point of making it an anime specifically. And what about anime really lends itself to ASOUE. After all the books already have it's own visual style, so what is anime really going to do for it that any other form of animation wouldn't? Well, yes, so that's why ASOUE should be an animated series or whatever. We're not talking ASOUE here, it's WCTBATH and its gang (ATWQ) Well, they can pull it off pretty nice if it's dominated by blue, white, or, idk.
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Post by Strangely on Mar 25, 2013 13:12:31 GMT -5
We're not talking ASOUE here, it's WCTBATH and its gang (ATWQ) Well, they can pull it off pretty nice if it's dominated by blue, white, or, idk. Oops, skidded off topic there. Anyways, what is it about Anime that lends itself to ATWQ? I mean we already have this visual style from the illustrations. We have this detective Noir thing from the books. So what would an Anime version give us that any other style wouldn't.
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Post by Dante on Mar 25, 2013 16:21:00 GMT -5
Perhaps Tryina's simply curious about a Japanese cultural perspective of ATWQ - or maybe she favours their working practices as producers of animations that can be comparatively serious, whereas much western animation - but not all - is aimed firmly at a younger age group, to the extent that it exists at all rather than having been displaced by CGI.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Mar 26, 2013 2:32:39 GMT -5
[Anyways, what is it about Anime that lends itself to ATWQ? I mean we already have this visual style from the illustrations. We have this detective Noir thing from the books. So what would an Anime version give us that any other style wouldn't. Yeah, I'm thinking Layton-esque or something combined with Seth influence. Perhaps Tryina's simply curious about a Japanese cultural perspective of ATWQ - or maybe she favours their working practices as producers of animations that can be comparatively serious, whereas much western animation - but not all - is aimed firmly at a younger age group, to the extent that it exists at all rather than having been displaced by CGI. Yeah, I'm curious at it.
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