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Dec 30, 2009 11:23

Must note, love "9". Gotta find a cheap copy somewhere and watch it a few times. It's odd, because although I like steampunky stuff from a stylistic perspective, I have a hard time connecting to it personally. Too much grime and too little green. Leave it to a few big-eyed rag dolls to do it, though. Most of the steampunk I've seen seems to involve ( Read more... )

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sfwriter January 1 2010, 16:50:57 UTC

I thought the short was brilliant, but I had my doubts about the feature length version. Been leaning towards watching it though, I guess you pushed me over the rest of the way. :D

drakeducaine January 1 2010, 23:16:05 UTC

Definitely watch it! I had never seen the short before I watched the movie, and after seeing both (movie first), the short seems like it was just enriched to turn into the movie. It's obvious that Shane Acker has had the entire world, plot, characters etc. constructed for the movie long before even the short was made. So it wasn't, for example, the two characters of 5 and 9 from the short with a bunch of extra characters added in. Everyone plays an essential role. The fact that the characters speak in 9 isn't a bad thing either, because a lot of the interaction between them is nonverbal. Actually, I felt the voice acting was a little weak for some characters, spot on for others, but the non-100% acted characters rarely speak, out of habit. Their awkward voice delivery may have actually been done on purpose, because the characters themselves aren't used to speaking out much. The movie's surprisingly deep. Watch and enjoy!

sfwriter January 2 2010, 02:48:02 UTC

Thanks, I think I will track it down. The fact that they did talk was one of the things bothering me, because (even more so in animation), speech can open the door to so many weaknesses of writing, acting, and so on... (I guess I watch far too many silent movies. And nonverbal cartoons. :D)

drakeducaine January 2 2010, 18:17:20 UTC

I agree with you completely. Quite a few people have wanted to do completely nonverbal feature length pictures (Disney's Dinosaur, when it was originally conceived a half billion years ago :) or in unique languages with no subtitles (Dark Crystal was supposed to be like this originally, I think, although maybe with subtitles ( ... )

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