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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > Warcraft
 
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Baron Bifford
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Lurdiak posted:

Even good film-makers can make lovely movies, and this movie looks pretty lovely. I don't understand what Duncan Jones has done to earn this blind faith.
None of Blizzard's own writers are working on the movie, which means it has a chance to be good.

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Baron Bifford
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Milky Moor posted:

so the orcs are brown skinned savages from another world?

ahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I thought the whole point of giving orcs green skin was to avoid racial connotations. Why would Blizzard reverse this?

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Baron Bifford
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A Buttery Pastry posted:

The green skin was probably just inspired by Warhammer, back when they hoped to obtain a license to make a Warhammer game. If anyone thought about avoiding racial connotations it was probably the early creators of the Warhammer franchise.
I think the first D&D Monster Manual described orcs as "brownish green".

Lurdiak posted:

So they had to put in a bunch of unexplained different skin color humans who live in the tiny European human lands. They don't have their own culture or homeland or anything, and everyone in power is white as snow. But that one guard is black, so it's not racist.
If Lordaeron is supposed to be medieval England or France, then it's natural for everybody to be white, because in those days travel was hard and Africa was far way. Ancient Romans, by contrast, were a very mixed bunch because their Empire was centered around the Mediterranean.

Baron Bifford fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Nov 8, 2015

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Baron Bifford
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Stormwind, OK, but it still looks based on northern Europe in the Middle Ages.

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