“But where’s that light coming from” BITCH IT’S FANTASY WHO CARES
Ok but also from a like, theatrical storytelling perspective, there’s a thing called “willful suspension of disbelief” which is basically the concept that in order to let ourselves be immersed and enjoy a story, we need to turn off our knowledge that it’s all fake anyway.
like yes, we all *know* it’s unrealistically bright for a night time war, but it needs to be so we can SEE the story being told, and the lighting designer used blue light to show it was night time. We KNOW that Sir Ian isn’t actually a wizard but we SUSPEND that DISBELIEF because we want to be entertained.
theres the moon, theres the stars, in this fantasy world the stars might be four times as bright or there might be two moons
or, considering this is a land without electric lights, its assumed that everyones eyes, including those of the viewers, have adjusted enough to the darkness that yes normal ass moon and stars provide sufficient illumination to actually see that the elf king is not wearing sweatpants like youd be able to tell or who the hell was that who just got stabbed thats kind of an important detail in an action scene
Elijah Wood said he brought this up with Andrew Lesnie, cinematographer on LOTR, once and asked him where the light was coming from in a particular scene, and Lesnie just smiled and said “same place as the music”.
for reasons that aren’t important right now, i had to get on the wiki list of all hockey nicknames to look something up. this turned out to be a treasure trove of joy. i have compiled my favorites for you now
how the hell do you remember which fire emblem is which number when literally none of them have said number in the title and there’s like over a dozen of them
imagine if people called Breath of the Wild “Zelda 15″
don’t forget that not all of them released in the West so we start at FE7 and skip FE12
3 contains a remake of 1. 7 is a prequel to 6. 11, 12 and 15 are remakes of 1, 3 and 2 respectively. 5 takes place at the same time as the beginning of 4’s second part.
The game of keepaway immediately induces an irrationally homicidal response in me. A girl will try and flirt by taking my hat (it’s always the hat!) and I have to physically take a moment to pause these primordial rip and tear protocols. No idea why this happens. I don’t even have deep seated trauma around it.
I figured “other people touching your stuff” would be enough
BREAKING: Joe Biden today signed an executive order ending new federal contracts with private prisons.
This is great news, and a reminder of one of my three favorite memories from LEVERAGE (longtime humans know this one, you can skip)
The S2 finale – which would have been a perfectly good series finale – left Nate Ford in the hands of law enforcement. And Portland had this perfectly good empty prison sitting there. So S3 started with an episode about Nate, in prison, discovering a cash-for-inmates scam.
So @Dean_Devlin as was his wont, arranged for the premiere episode to be shown in a proper theater, but party, etc. It was (insanely) shot on 6k, so why not?
At this screening I was sitting next to an older Hollywood agent …
During the screening he leaned over to tease me. “This one is a bit much, isn’t it?”
“No, this one is real,” I whispered back.
He stared at me.
“Except in real life, it was kids.”
A beat, then in full voice, in a crowded theater, he exclaimed “IN AMERICA?!”
Yeah, man. Welcome to the country you don’t know exists, in the dirty little corners of your shining city on the hill.
I don’t think we changed his politics. But we opened up his world a little. So I’ll take that win.
