Comment on Shazam’ Star Zachary Levi Calls Out Hollywood For Output Of “Garbage” Content

Haus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• BudgieMania@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One of my biggest regrets in life is studying storytelling and scriptwriting because it made me aware of the freaking save the cat thing and ruined movies forever for me.

  I can't watch a movie that is following the model non-cynically, and since most movies do follow it, well...

  It's also made me dislike when an industry tries to push that there's an objectively correct way of doing something in an artform, but that's another story entirely.

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  • HellAwaits@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is why I can’t stand the MCU. Because it’s so painfully formulaic and everyone ACTS like it’s all original material in every movie.

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    • BudgieMania@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      see the thing is, you see it like that, but the industry sees it like this

      https://imgur.com/TbfM1po

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I made the mistake of pointing out the Blue and Orange marketing trick to my wife, and goddamn it once you see it, it’s EVERYWHERE.

    tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/OrangeBlueContrast

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    • BudgieMania@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Next up, tell her about color theory in general and how valid color combinations for characters are more limited than you thought. Show her how green goblin, piccolo and the joker share color identity due to this. That's why Spider-Man and Superman go to the same tailor! Etc etc

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      • kingmongoose7877@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That stems more from the limitations of the four-color process than anything else. That’s why Superman and Spider-Man share the exact same red and blue (cyan). I wouldn’t really use comic books as a yardstick for valid color combinations nor graphic design in general, of course with (few) exceptions.

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  • Mr_TheMoviePhone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My biggest regret is that I have boneitis

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    • aaron_griffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same, man, same

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• MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I hadn’t heard of the “Save the cat” method before. Hello rabbit-hole.

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  • TheCopiedCovenant@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just spent two hours researching it. Shit, now I’m gonna notice it EVERYWHERE …

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  • rockhstrongo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same. After a bit of reading, I’m now certain I will see this structure in everything.

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• RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Save the Cat! formula

  Huh. I’ve never heard of this before. I played through The Matrix in my head while reading a Save The Cat guide and it’s strikingly accurate.

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