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andrew smash posted:They do. The male anophelii have butthole mouths but their spoken language is described as whistling and hooting sounds iirc. So a kind of fart I guess I guess it depends on if you focus on the language smelling like a fart or sounding/looking like a fart. I stand corrected - there are deeper nuances to bugfolk fart speak than I remembered.
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Not going to lie, all I could picture for the Anopheles-guys in the Scar were these dudes:  I'm not entirely convinced that China didn't use them as the basis either.
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mitochondritom posted:Not going to lie, all I could picture for the Anopheles-guys in the Scar were these dudes: unfortunately all i could think about was normal dudes who have anuses for mouths
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mitochondritom posted:
Wikipedia posted:Futurama: Bender's Big Score (or Bender's Big Score) is a 2007 American direct-to-video... Wikipedia posted:The Scar (novel) 🤔
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This thread is a glittering panorama of things I never, ever want to put into google image search
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scary ghost dog posted:unfortunately all i could think about was normal dudes who have anuses for mouths that's a subcategory on xhamster now not any of the other ones, just xhamster for some reason
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just finished a reread of The Scar and while i said earlier that PSS was eminently unfilmable, i think The Scar might actually be perfectly suitable for adaptation
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I really like everything about the scar for filming except uther. I don't think he even really worked on the page, on the screen what nuance he has will vanish and he will end up a generic "brooding man with dark backstory who owns everyone with a magic sword" figure
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That's very true but I'd give a toe to watch someone play an even B-tier adaptation of the Brucolac.
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May 17, 2019 03:08
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I want to watch The Scar filmed and created in the same style as Mad Max Fury Road
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andrew smash posted:I really like everything about the scar for filming except uther. I don't think he even really worked on the page, on the screen what nuance he has will vanish and he will end up a generic "brooding man with dark backstory who owns everyone with a magic sword" figure all you need to do to fix uther is cast alexander skaarsgard
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Quandary posted:I want to watch The Scar filmed and created in the same style as Mad Max Fury Road 
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May 17, 2019 04:42
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A film version of the Armada vs Morning Walker et al battle would be just lovely.
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May 17, 2019 04:45
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Quandary posted:I want to watch The Scar filmed and created in the same style as Mad Max Fury Road "I live! I die! I live again!" would work as a quote for Hedrigall and the Brucolac, come to think of it.
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May 17, 2019 04:47
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It would finally give me the duncleosteus action scene I've always wanted to see. (O come on we know what a "bonefish" is, don't lie.) Also now I'm imagining Dominic West as Tanner Sack and that owns pretty hard.
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scary ghost dog posted:just finished a reread of The Scar and while i said earlier that PSS was eminently unfilmable, i think The Scar might actually be perfectly suitable for adaptation I think it'd be really hard to capture the wtf moment at the end when Bellis realizes that Uther either manipulated her or else is just a terrifying improviser. It's a very The Usual Suspects kind of revelation.
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pseudanonymous posted:I think it'd be really hard to capture the wtf moment at the end when Bellis realizes that Uther either manipulated her or else is just a terrifying improviser. It's a very The Usual Suspects kind of revelation. its very confusing for sure. but u could just make her letters voiceovers and it would work
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You might as well change the ending if you are going to adapt it, it is absolutely the worst part of the book.
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The folks who made the first season of American Gods could probably do a decent job with the Scar. The budget though, Christ.
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May 17, 2019 06:22
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I want Robert Sheehan to play Brucolac
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Oasx posted:You might as well change the ending if you are going to adapt it, it is absolutely the worst part of the book. even if its the worst part idk how it could be changed to be better
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Oasx posted:You might as well change the ending if you are going to adapt it, it is absolutely the worst part of the book. Can you elaborate as to why you don't like it?
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The Scar would be an incredible movie. I think PSS might be too dense and weird to film at the moment though.
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pseudanonymous posted:Can you elaborate as to why you don't like it? its very anticlimactic.....the titular scar is only seen in a might-have-been. in reality armada turns around right before reaching it, after spending the whole book seeking it......however, the attempted mutiny right before is very thrilling
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Yeah, endings super colour my point of view on a book, and The Scar's ending is really loving bad. I actually liked it of all his book's the least, and I guess I was surprised when I found out I was definitely in the minority on that front.
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pseudanonymous posted:Can you elaborate as to why you don't like it? I hate it when at the end of a book/movie/tv show the author suddenly turns around and tells me that everything he got me to care about was false. Pretty much the entire plot of the book is about people tricking Bellis, and thereby the reader into thinking something is happening, and it turns out to be a ruse. It in many ways makes the entire book feel like a practical joke, and for everything you read to be pointless. I still think the book is great, and these days I can mostly ignore the bad ending, but it still contributes to me thinking that it is the weakest Bas-Lag book by far.
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Oasx posted:I hate it when at the end of a book/movie/tv show the author suddenly turns around and tells me that everything he got me to care about was false. Pretty much the entire plot of the book is about people tricking Bellis, and thereby the reader into thinking something is happening, and it turns out to be a ruse. It in many ways makes the entire book feel like a practical joke, and for everything you read to be pointless. that's interesting, I think it's the best/strongest of the three personally. scary ghost dog posted:its very anticlimactic.....the titular scar is only seen in a might-have-been. in reality armada turns around right before reaching it, after spending the whole book seeking it......however, the attempted mutiny right before is very thrilling I'd pose this question to both of you, I guess, did you like The Usual Suspects or was that a frustrating shaggydog story for you as well?
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i think the usual suspects is a bad movie with no plot, yes
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andrew smash posted:I really like everything about the scar for filming except uther. I don't think he even really worked on the page, on the screen what nuance he has will vanish and he will end up a generic "brooding man with dark backstory who owns everyone with a magic sword" figure He needs to be acted in the broadest possible sense, to reflect his Possible Acting, get Nic Cage or something. e: I'm a vampire, I'm a vampire, I'm a vampire
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pseudanonymous posted:I'd pose this question to both of you, I guess, did you like The Usual Suspects or was that a frustrating shaggydog story for you as well? I have not seen that movie, but in general I hate these kinds of endings. Neil Gaiman's American Gods went from good to crap simply because of the ending. It's simply a pet peeve of mine.
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Perhaps The Scar is all about the voyage, not the destination. (Ugh.)
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pseudanonymous posted:that's interesting, I think it's the best/strongest of the three personally. I don't think he ever aimed at a satisfying ending - I know he admitted to hating happy endings that lead to prolonging the status quo and he's got a point there with the whole "why the hell write fantasy if you just want to reaffirm people's views" but I'd say the name of the game is clever disappointment. And that's perfectly fine. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 10:32 on May 20, 2019 |
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I wouldn't say that Embassytown fizzles out and to me it has the strongest ending of all his books since the change at the end is so dramatic. After the resolution of the main plot there's an epilogue but I wouldn't really count that as the main narrative ending of the book. Although I might be biased because Embassytown is by far my favourite of his books.
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Yeah, there is nothing wrong with the ending to Embassytown. The Bas-Lag books and Railsea are the ones with real issues.
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Tekopo posted:I wouldn't say that Embassytown fizzles out and to me it has the strongest ending of all his books since the change at the end is so dramatic. After the resolution of the main plot there's an epilogue but I wouldn't really count that as the main narrative ending of the book. Although I might be biased because Embassytown is by far my favourite of his books. I don't want to say I like it more than the Bas-Lag books, but I think I probably do.
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PSS has an extremely climactic final act
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Oasx posted:Yeah, there is nothing wrong with the ending to Embassytown. The Bas-Lag books and Railsea are the ones with real issues. I'll agree with you on Bas Lag but Railseas ending was absolutely hillarious and basically a big troll
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I thought Iron Council's anti-climax was fantastic. It ended with the defeat of the revolution, but an vivid and visceral promise of a future revolution in the form of that incredible frozen train, motionlessly poised to hurtle once more towards the city. It might be because I really liked that image, but I was left really satisfied with Iron Council. I should mention I also didn't dislike the Scar's ending, but I get that it has way more of a "what even was the point of all this" vibe.
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