Comment on We can dream right
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why? The first one was very experimental. They release a second one they are given two bad choices. They continue the original cinematic vision but being a sequel the plot suffers and it fails or they try something new and it fall flat.
Why ruin a perfectly, self contained, what I would consider masterpiece by trying to expand the universe.
I would be ok with exploring the world some more but maybe in a more traditional heros tale type outline.
Not just experimental, but an afterthought made with leftovers of a partially made movie that production failed on.
The location, props, cgi, and even parts of the story were the scraps of the Halo movie that Peter Jackson started to make before abandoning it.
The result was an excellent movie, but the circumstances of slapping a new coat of paint onto a half produced film make for a very unique and hard to replicate product.
UNY0N@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Most sequels are sub-par, agreed. But this story does seem half-finished at the end of the film, a sequel would practically write itself.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 months ago
Tbh, the sequel is the aliens come back and conquer humanity, but since the whole thing is a metaphor for apartheid politics, the sequel plays into a bit of a different narrative than anti-racism.
Though it’d honestly be pretty great if the sequel was the aliens don’t come back, but Earth tears itself apart worrying about what will happen if they do.
IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Hold up. People assume it’s about apartheid. Remember all those clips of South Africans saying “they should go back where they come from” in that documentary montage at the beginning. Those were real clips of people talking about immigrants from Zimbabwe. District 9 is about immigration.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 months ago
I’d say more refugees than immigration per se, but yeah, it’s about that too. The great thing about a metaphor about “othering” people is it can apply to a lot of things. Racism, immigration, jingoism, homophobia, etc.
It’s taken mostly as a metaphor for apartheid because of the, you know, country and the apartheid they did in recent history and the apartheid done in the movie, but there’s plenty of meaning to be found in “don’t be a bigot and don’t let people starve out of neglect and spite.”
UNY0N@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Actually I thought the aliens wouldn’t come back to conquer earth, that would be boring and a tired trope. I thought it would be about rescuing thier people, and everyone on earth just assumes they are here to invade.
I’m no screenwriter, and I’m not sure what social commentary would be appropriate, but it just sounds like a fun movie. And Wikus deserves some closure.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They said before making mortal combat annihilation
UNY0N@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Touché