Instead of the foreword:
Oh my gosh, you are already over 150! Thanks to each one of you, my dear followers. I've already mentioned how I admired the friendliness and warmth of people here, but I did not even imagine that I might become interesting to so many people in such a short time! Thank you. It captivates, impresses, inspires and motivates. And let it not bother you that so far I myself have signed up for just a few people, as regardless of this, I look through the news feed and pay attention to everyone and everything that I notice. ❤️
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The film industry never stands still. One can debate for a long time that nothing new can be created, “everything has been invented before us”, new ideas are old ones and so on. This is just the tip of the iceberg, and the iceberg, as you know, most of it is not visible to us. Trends are changing, the development of technology and commercial aspects affects the whole cinema process, including the presentation style, the proportionality of the art content and visual surroundings. I am not even mentioning the affection of the individual political, ethical and cultural aspects and - especially - the "popular" hyperbolized scandalous topics about tolerance and so on... The financial component has always had a great influence on art, but nowadays, due to the constantly developing technologies, economical needs and the mentioned above, this influence has enlarged enormously. Marketing seeks to sell the perfect picture, equipped with an ongoing stream of emotions and action; viewers are becoming more demanding; loud names, realistic special effects and huge financial investments are clearly becoming more important than ideas, plots or even an adequate sense. And again, one can debate for a long time on the pros and cons of this through reviewing the quality indicators development or a kind of “degradation of perception” (you'll see later here what I mean)... But the facts will remain the same.
Referring to this, we can come to one of the simplest examples depicting the presence of such changes and their impact. Excessive requirements for the visual component today affect our perception so much that it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to watch and appreciate films that were shot 15, 20, 30 or more years ago. We forget how to fantasize, think out, guess, “draw and smooth out uneven corners” - in other words, our ability to perceive the plot without a strong reliance on the picture is constantly decreasing. And this is not the fault of technology, business or fashion, but our own one. Of course, the younger generation suffers the most from this, as kids seem to be surrounded by all these lovely colourful images all the time. Thus, they have become accustomed to books with 80% illustrations and 20% text, they are more likely to play video games with detailed graphics, and they will surely watch a fresh remake of the old movie - even if this remake turns out to be, again, just a beautiful video sequence flavored with special effects.
But there are good points too - significantly good! For example, the opportunity to push a good idea to the masses through high-quality visual advertising, movie contests and festivals, to see a good adaptation of your favorite book (and watch it with someone you have long advised reading the book, but he or she refuses because of laziness or lack free time or whatever), and so on. And as for the book adaptation point... Yes, that means a lot to me, since it became today's theme for my blog post.
I deeply love Terry Pratchett's books. His unique universes, fantasy worlds, irony and peculiar timeless narrative relevance are close to me. That's why I would really loved to see a movie adaptation of his Discworld series, especially those separate books which tell the stories about the Grim Reapers. For me, Death is described in a very interesting way; I like the description of His desire to understand the world of people. I can't help mentioning the excellent transmission of the very importance of living and dying which both need to exist. Everything should come to an end, otherwise Chaos will spread and nothing good will come of it. After all, why try to do something and become someone if your existence does not know the end? .. Your desireable eternal life needs to be earned, first of all, through your willingness to accept such gift and use it wisely. note the excellent transmission of the importance of death itself as a process, an end and at the same time a beginning. Everything should come to an end, otherwise Chaos will spread and nothing good will come of it. After all, why try to do something and become someone if your existence does not know the end?.. Such an eternal life needs to be earned, first of all, through our willingness to accept this gift and use it wisely. And here we meet the very heart of famous Pratchett's irony, which glides even in the description of deaths. I was especially struck and touched by the death of rats, as you may quess due to the illustration here :)
And here is the semantic connection of my current story about the movie adaptation and the and previous general description. In the end, I am also influenced by current trends, about which I wrote earlier. And as a fan of the book series, I would like to see a high-quality adaptation. It means, a maximum compliance with the book version and specious visualization. I’m not talking about the obligatory set of computer graphics or too much action, which is not important here, actually. At least, there must be well-developed costumes, believable death images and speaking animation (in particular, a apeaking raven). I can clearly imagine the Death's granddaughter clothing. Such a Gothic Lolita! And all those landscapes with fields and underwater worlds, and the House of Death in another dimension, and, again, the Death of rodents, a rat skeleton wearing classical Death outfit and a scythe...
As a result, I see an atmospheric movie with many landscapes and details shown, as well as having the impressive depicting of the fantasy features. Maybe the movie is even shot by Scandinavian authors or on Scandinavian lands, I think these folks are one of the best at creating the great movie atmosphere, both dreamy and nervous, beautiful and terrifying, calm an dramatic. Or, maybe, someone like Chris Weitz would be a nice director to this movie of my dream, as I liked his Golden Compass a lot. I thought about other directors, such as Del Toro or Burton, but in my opinion they are not very suitable (due to the excessive complexity of the plot interweaving and more attention to the picture, or too serious storylines and drama, whatever). Of course, it has been just my current opinion; in fact, even a random director could make an amazing film adaptation - and it would be doubly magnificent!
The ability to be surprised is one of the valuable aspects for market, referring to the initial theme about its affection on art. You will definitely gain success if you can surprise your potential client. The same is here. We're still humans if we can feel the life through being easily surprised. And I want to feel it so much!
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