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Post by skyeraptor59 on Dec 2, 2010 21:48:11 GMT -5
Yeah, which would explain some of the thinness the movie had. It's hard to make a nearly 2 hour movie from a short story, but someone did it.
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Post by Dullahan on Dec 2, 2010 21:49:29 GMT -5
True. It can be done, but it's not easy.
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Post by WildKnight on Dec 2, 2010 21:52:14 GMT -5
They make movies from short stories all the time. Arguably, it's better than making them from books, as books tend to be more deeply detailed than short stories, and the place where most movies tend to fall apart (or lose the fans if its based on a previous work) is in the details.
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Post by Dullahan on Dec 2, 2010 21:53:00 GMT -5
True. With a short story, there's plenty of room to expand, and you don't have to worry about compressing anything.
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Post by skyeraptor59 on Dec 2, 2010 21:58:46 GMT -5
True points, I agree, but if there's a sufficient lack of length to a short story, trying to stretch it out over almost 2 hours doesn't do it justice.
There were also too many characters to do them all sufficient justice and expand on them more. *ignores the fact that he puts massive amounts of characters in his own story*
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Post by WildKnight on Dec 2, 2010 22:01:53 GMT -5
Short stories aren't short in length (necessarily). A short story is defined by having limited characters and locations. When you think about it, most movies only have 4 or 5 relevant characters and 2 or 3 important locations.
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Post by skyeraptor59 on Dec 2, 2010 22:11:51 GMT -5
Again, very true. My point is, they had too many relevant characters to sufficiently develop them in the time provided. They added tidbits about each character here and there, but that seemed like it was more of an attempt to make them more than 2d rather than fleshing them out.
Sorry if I'm not making sense. I'm sick right now, so my writing and perception's a little off. *grumbles about hating being sick, is interrupted by a round off coughs*
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Post by browwiw on Dec 2, 2010 22:12:27 GMT -5
F-Bomb, have you read the works of Dr. Bart Ehrman or Dr. Robert Price? Fascinating and erudite scholars on historical and contextual criticism of the Bible. I'm really fascinated by Mediterranean mythology right now.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2010 0:12:22 GMT -5
I don't know if I've read them specifically, but I've read about the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia mythology. I think Mesopotamian lore explains civilization everything the best possible way.
They pretty much said their “gods” came from above and taught them how to be a civilization. Of course, most civilizations say this, but Mesopotamia names a planet that they came from.
I’m not part of the scientology movement, but I do believe when translated into modern terms that something like that was more likely to happen than divine intervention.
I don't believe the rubbish about brain washed alien souls causing our problems, but I wouldn't be surprised if another race didn't if an alien race did help out our primitive ancestors by showing them things about livestock, farming, and so on. Pretty much every civilization records that some things like that were taught by “gods.”
I mean do disrespect to anyone’s beliefs, but I understand about space travel, and think there could be more advanced races than us out there in the universe. The thing about deities and all that seems to go over my head. As some would point out that’s a matter of faith. I’ve always leaned more toward fact that faith.
There’s no hard proof of alien life forms, but there’s enough reasonable doubt that our planet isn’t the only in the entire universe that could sustain life for me not to rule out that possibility.
It’s cool that people believe differently, but I do not claim to know exactly how any of it happen. I do however believe that one example is just as likely as the other, and the complete truth is not in any one particular work. The world’s too massive.
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