Narrative Arcade

When I don't screenwrite, I make videos about screenwriting and storytelling.

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New video essay I produced. Title says it all. My theory is that Halo invented its own genre (by accident). A screenwriting analysis with clips from @Nerdrotics, @TheActMan_YT, @HiddenXperia, @o_sneedy
https://t.co/4Km8dcQAoZ
#HaloTheSeries #HaloInfinite #HaloSeason2 #halo

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution released 15 years ago. It's still a banger, so I had to do a breakdown!

https://t.co/ymFwx4eAyu

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@NikWestinghouse @RealLifeFakeWiz Kosinski is the goat! One of my directing influences.

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@NikWestinghouse @RealLifeFakeWiz True, personally if I was in charge I would simply go back to Gears 1 & 2 roles. I like Gears 3 but it certainly lost a bit of edge compared to the first two games.

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@NikWestinghouse @RealLifeFakeWiz It depends on the worldbuilding. The world of Gears had almost 8 decades of total war before E-Day. It's plausible to have full mobilization by then because they were running out of men (part of the reason the locust exist). So, I can buy it but depends on how it's written.

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@JosephKahn Widow's Bay nailed it perfectly and it seems well received. It is tough to write but not impossible. I have a horror comedy in early packaging, pretty much in the vein of Widow's Bay, a meta narrative makes it easier to pull off.

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I played Campaign Evolved and I regret doing it. https://t.co/wWAMfAk88i

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@JosephKahn Just the one before the collapse 😅

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This!

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

After decades of pitching Hollywood executives, veteran director Joseph Kahn delivers his verdict on the industry in his debut column for THR: The quarter-zips have taken over, the suits have lost their nerve, and the business desperately needs its monsters back.

"The executive’s job is to be the brilliant, greedy, tasteful money animal who funds the dream, and pretending otherwise is what broke the business. The business forgot it is supposed to be a hit-driven, star-driven, spectacle-driven machine, not a lifestyle brand for coastal creatives." https://t.co/l4GY4BZuFU

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@kabutoridermav 2/2 I've seen scripts get rejected for being problematic. I got flack for using grid girls in a racing script. It's unfortunately a lot of dumb nonsense that can ruin any fun concept even if it sounds like a sure hit.

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@kabutoridermav I'm not talking about audience opinions. It's little details that ruin development inside writing rooms. like when the vampires have human slaves, that alone will result in endless discussions on how to portray it. The old series only cared about being fun. 1/2

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@kabutoridermav Bro, having been in these pitch & development meetings, I can tell you they'll find dozens of ways to screw it up. So much stuff in the first movie is considered "problematic" now.

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@kabutoridermav I just watched the first one with Wesley Snapes again. I'm kinda happy they didn't do anything with the IP. They would've fucked it up.

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@o_sneedy Austrian here. For those saying this is Eastern Europe. Literally most of Vienna and almost every German city looks like this shit too because the average European is completely demoralized by collectivism. Americans have no idea how good they have it (well, some do).

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@mtaibbi He's larping as one of the biggest mass murderers in history... let's just be happy this parasite doesn't hold any real power whatsoever (emphasis on real).

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@NeillBlomkamp I think AI will replace animated movies because you can mask it with human voice actors but for live-action, I don't see it going beyond proof of concept or VFX. It would require the AI to understand and have human emotions, right now it's just rehashing data sets.

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@NeillBlomkamp I don't know man, it's the voices. Ignore the moral pearl clutching in the comments for a moment, the voices just sound off. "He told me she was alive..." the way that's delivered, something is off because it's a facsimile of a human emotion. The more I hear it the worse it gets.

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@Variety Now let me see that Odyssey adaptation.

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@IGN

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@X0X_LEAK For a second I thought they gave Zero Horizon Dawn to a dev that isn't afraid of the hour glass shape.