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Post by thathoboravioli on Aug 5, 2020 23:26:14 GMT -5
Over the next couple of weeks I'll be posting all the information I have on the film's deleted sequences, original drafts, and dropped concepts so that we can have it all in one place. Goodie. I am extremely interested in this, especially considering the nuts stuff that ended up making it into the Netflix show from the early drafts (like the James Brown quote during the rock retriever scene)
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Post by thathoboravioli on Aug 4, 2020 22:33:48 GMT -5
I've seen this movie over 100 times, and I even saw it in theaters when it came out. I remember almost everything in it, even the deleted scenes and footage only seen in trailers. Honestly, this is a very...mixed film for me. On one hand there's childhood nostalgia, a really nice atmosphere, an amazing soundtrack, and some endlessly quotable dialogue. On the other, you have a messy structure, some really awkward child acting, and of course the infamous "adaptational" changes made to the story at the cost of simplifying the stories and making them lose their subversive style. I heard a lot about the troubled production, and I won't lie, it's so crazy it deserves a documentary series.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Jun 4, 2020 21:06:39 GMT -5
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Post by thathoboravioli on May 18, 2020 16:04:21 GMT -5
By "extended main theme" I meant the longer version of the credits theme that shows up at the start of The Bad Beginning. Not sure about Lucky Smells variations, though.
If you get around to doing the movie, here are some of my requests: -An Unpleasant Incident Involving a Train (Film Version) -Lachrymose Ferry I (Lousy Lane) -Resilience II (Monty explaining sanctuaries) -Lachrymose Ferry II (Fickle Ferry - Film Version) -A Woeful Wedding I (Making the grappling hook)
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Post by thathoboravioli on May 16, 2020 20:31:57 GMT -5
Lucky Smells, Extended Main Theme/End Credits, Beatrice Finale (ending of the show)
...will you do this for the movie as well?
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Post by thathoboravioli on Mar 18, 2020 16:10:18 GMT -5
I myself am writing a D&D/Tolkien-style fantasy story in a generic as *potato* fantasy world, though I kinda did that on purpose and wanted to sort of jab at or satirize tropes or common traits of said fantasy worlds (i.e. there are constructed languages but they are all based on real languages i.e. elves speak a Celtic-esque language, dwarves and giants speak Old English and Old Norse, cat and dog people speak a Semitic language that resembles Hebrew and Arabic thrown in a blender with the other "semlangs", and human languages tend to be either Romance languages or Middle English).
I haven't thought much on the story yet besides a water goddess choosing an elf lady to prevent a world war and defeat a dark lord who ultimately turns out to be a role-playing farmer, but for the most part I made it about how generic fantasy works have tended to be, how utterly stupid societies can be, and how imperialism is bad. However, the execution is what matters, so I don't know how to handle that.
I still haven't read Paolini's works, but from what I hear they are kind of typical fantasy stories in a typical fantasy world, though the first one is less of a LOTR rip-off and more of a Star Wars rip-off.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Mar 6, 2020 0:35:22 GMT -5
Eragon was very much copied off of the Lord of the Rings and the Valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey. I reccommend LotR a little over the other two series. Don't forget Star Wars. Eragon is basically Star Wars in a Tolkien world. The later books are a bit less derivative, but they are still pretty derivative.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Mar 6, 2020 0:29:29 GMT -5
An animated ATWQ series would be a dream ... An animation in the style of Netflix's Carmen Sandiego ...Would it be too expensive? Would the general public watch with interest? I hope so. Look at Netflix's surprisingly pretty good Green Eggs and Ham series. It has absolutely gorgeous animation and was apparently pretty expensive, and the result was a surprisingly engaging though bizarre show filled with plot twists and some heartfelt moments. So maybe an ATWQ adaptation in that style could work, but it might have to be a bit edgier or a bit darker than Green Eggs and Ham.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Nov 4, 2019 20:12:43 GMT -5
This is quite impressive
I find it funny considering how much I got a handful of the historic references (a prophecy from a guy named Daniel about Alexander of Macedonia...the iron legs, I'm quite familiar with the work of Josephus), so I'm quite interested in seeing how this goes.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Jan 11, 2019 22:11:30 GMT -5
The complete soundtrack recordings (plus demos and alternate tracks) However, you're in luck when it comes to the soundtrack. Not only is there a very good chance that it may be released, but it might also be through official channels and be out a little bit sooner than you may think. There are quite a few music companies nowadays -LaLaLand and Intrada, for example- that make most of their business from re-releasing the scores of movies in their complete form, often including material like alternate tracks and demos. And in the last couple of years, Paramount and Dreamworks (who financed the film together) have been licensing a lot of their music out to these companies, especially for their films from the late 90s and early 2000s. It could just be a matter of time... <iframe width="28.079999999999927" height="9.319999999999993" style="position: absolute; width: 28.079999999999927px; height: 9.319999999999993px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 15px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT1_76109985" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="28.079999999999927" height="9.319999999999993" style="position: absolute; width: 28.08px; height: 9.32px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1339px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT1_48475074" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="28.079999999999927" height="9.319999999999993" style="position: absolute; width: 28.08px; height: 9.32px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 15px; top: 401px;" id="MoatPxIOPT1_39206932" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="28.079999999999927" height="9.319999999999993" style="position: absolute; width: 28.08px; height: 9.32px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1339px; top: 401px;" id="MoatPxIOPT1_26847235" scrolling="no"></iframe> Oh right...I kinda don't know if ASOUE will EVER get a complete soundtrack release, but I did get La La Land's Harry Potter box set for Christmas (and it's amazing) Here are the tracks on my "wish list" for a possible complete soundtrack release of A Series of Unfortunate Events: 1. Justice Strauss/Chez Olaf (film version) 2. Chores (Puttanesca part 1?) 3. An Unpleasant Incident Involving a Train (film version) 4. Regarding the Incredibly Deadly Viper (extended/film version) 5. The variation of the ending of the soundtrack version of "An Unpleasant Incident Involving a Train" that plays in Aunt Josephine's death scene. 6. The complete Olaf band recordings (including The Marvelous Marriage and the music only used in the deleted scenes. "The hoards are here!") 7. The Woeful Wedding (Part 1) 8. This unused recorded track from "The Sad Score" that sounds like the opening of "The Regretful Episode of the Leeches" mixed with a more complete version of the ending of "Lachrymose Ferry"
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Post by thathoboravioli on Jan 9, 2019 21:51:23 GMT -5
Agreed. Honestly, the White Faced Women were the best part of the movie, and they had all their funniest bits removed. "I am so much more milkier!" "I'm more desperate." "Are you KIDDING? I was BORN to play that part!" "It's the milkmaid, not the cow." (laughter) "You smell like garbage."
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Post by thathoboravioli on Jan 8, 2019 23:30:17 GMT -5
Upon hearing these comments, now there's two things I want from the movie to be released that will likely never be released
1. The complete soundtrack recordings (plus demos and alternate tracks) 2. The complete version of A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Movie with all the deleted material put back in
Both of these will probably be gone forever, lost into the Great Unknown.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Jan 6, 2019 19:39:54 GMT -5
Thanks for clearing it up, StrangelyI think I almost forgot how much of a mess the movie's production was (I think the only thing that wasn't a mess was the music, and even then there are a ton of alternates in the film vs. the official release and the recording sessions haven't leaked AT ALL), so I didn't keep that in mind. I do know the original ending was in the deleted scenes, but I wish I could find the version from the test screenings, especially with Lemony Snicket's narration.
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Post by thathoboravioli on Jan 5, 2019 23:48:46 GMT -5
I remember hearing somewhere that the 2004 movie originally had an alternate ending.
I own a DVD of the movie that contains in the "Orphaned Scenes" feature an alternate ending (I don't remember if it was "Dismal Deletions" or "Obnoxious Outtakes") with Olaf escaping, but I found it odd that it was mostly just random cuts of different scenes and then there was the video game, which ended with Olaf's escape and a narration from Lemony Snicket about how he was going to continue his investigation into the Baudelaires' lives...as the screen shows a sketch of the Baudelaires sitting in a train station.
Somehow, I think the ending might have been changed either because of someone realizing the movie wasn't gonna do that well or because test screenings, but I'm not sure.
Does anyone know anything about this?
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Post by thathoboravioli on Jan 1, 2019 21:47:25 GMT -5
I'M BACK!
...Okay, what was up with that season? I have no clue how to describe what I saw in Season 3. For the most part it was just absolute madness that felt out of place in the books, and don't get me started on the discovery of what was in the sugar bowl this whole time. I don't know if the show really is supposed to be canon or anything considering the involvement of Daniel Handler, but quite a bit of it felt like either strange adaptation choices (Harry Potter 3-7 Part 2) or just full-on executive meddling (the Percy Jackson and the Olympians films). On the bright side, the show still managed to be quite interesting despite the weird visual style and writing.
P.S. "That's Not How the Story Goes" was quite a nice touch
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