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amonitrate

I think I might be a little in love with

Apr 05, 2009 13:53

The Hathor Legacy. I spent large chunk of my non-room-cleaning time yesterday reading through posts at random.

Another gorgeous day. I actually spent some time outside this afternoon, walking to the public library, which actually had the book I was looking for. Gasp. I haven't been terribly impressed with my local branch so far, but I can't complain ( Read more... )

iron man

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I fucking love this topic svilleficrecs April 5 2009, 18:27:03 UTC

There's a really good (if a bit dense and hard to grasp on the first couple read throughs) book out there on this topic called "A Story is a Promise" that you might enjoy. It's about book, screenplay and playwriting, but the principles in it remain the same, and it's one of those sets of concepts where, once you wrap your brain around it, seems *so* obvious and intuitive. The basic idea is that a *story* is "a vehicle that carries us on an engaging, dramatic journey to a destination of resolution we find satisfying and fulfilling. When we find a particular story/journey to be dramatically potent and pleasing -- more "true" than life, or life as we would like it to be -- we can desire to re-experience the same story/journey over and over ( ... )

Re: I fucking love this topic amonitrate April 5 2009, 22:01:07 UTC

wow, that is awesome. thank you.

I've been realizing that I'm stronger on story than I am on plot, as a writer myself, but that I really need to beef up my story skills.

amycooper April 5 2009, 19:50:41 UTC

You haven't meet Betacandy (the owner of Hathor Legacy) yet? She's on my flist and is so full of awesome it is ridiculous.

amonitrate April 6 2009, 01:36:32 UTC

no, i haven't. it's a great site, though.

obsession_inc April 6 2009, 03:00:41 UTC

Oh, man, I also love this topic. I enjoyed watching TDK the first time through, but it has little re-watch value for me besides keeping an eye on Chicago. Great plot, sure, great acting, but it has no noticeable emotional journey, so once I actually know what's happening next, it's no longer interesting.

I think this fits in well with my theory that when it comes to co-workers, people will always prefer a pretty-good person that they like over a really good person who is a dick to everybody. Yeah, technical precision is great and all, but humanity will generally go with solid emotional connections with the "pretty good" over poor emotional connections with the "very good ( ... )

amonitrate April 6 2009, 03:07:40 UTC

talk on, babe.

Point being, emotional validity will trump plot complexity every time, and Iron Man had that in freaking spades. Yes, this exactly. And yeah, I enjoyed the spectacle of TDK, but I never really felt involved with any of the characters. At all. A little bit with Harvey, but I felt they tried to do too much, so Harvey's arc was rushed at the end and any emotional resonance lost with his death ( ... )

amonitrate April 6 2009, 03:13:40 UTC

OH, and I noticed more anvils in Batman Begins as I was idly watching a bit of it -- Nolan seems to really love spelling everything out for the audience. HE'S A DARK KNIGHT. GET IT? DO YA GET IT ( ... )