: [snip]
: I think it a Myth movie would best be done in a manner
: similar to how we see the game. Basically, take every
: descriptive scene written in the journal that could be
: transcribed to film, and use that in place of actual
: journal text. Only places where visual scenes would
: not be appropriate - mentions of past history and such
: - should be spoken, and then in a simple narrative
: voiceover fashion, as the entire movie is the
: visualization of a written narrative (the journal).
: I would begin it with a slow zoom in over Crow's Bridge.
: Voiceover speaks, "Wednesday, September 3rd,
: Crow's Bridge..." and begins the narration. It
: fades out where appopriate, to be replaced by the
: actual scene where the Legion enters the village and
: the peasants plead with them to stay, etc. When that
: scene is over, it could cut to the Narrator sitting
: under a tree in Crow's Bridge, writing the last lines
: in journal entry "16 of us are to say now,
: perhaps to fight boredom instead of the fallen lords,
: and watch the bridge here for two days". Then a
: bit of waiting around to illustrate the boredom,
: leading up to when the Dark forces arrive and the
: actual battle begins. We would have to decide for sure
: who the narrator was, of course, to do this, but I
: don't think we would have to keep him out of battle.
: He does fight Myrmidons in Forest Heart, remember.
: Where appropriate, scenes would begin with breif excerpts
: from the journal. In some scenes, such as "Out of
: the Barrier", when Alric finishes delivering his
: crazy rant to the Champions, the narrator would
: interject his comment about how Alric's story
: contradicts what he knows of history. Then the next
: scene would shot Alric and the Champions battling out
: of the barrier, etc.
: The movie would perhaps get a lot longer because of all
: the extra scenes that would have to be thrown in - the
: Battle for Madrigal, etc - which wouldn't just be
: mentioned in passing as in the game. But that's not a
: bad thing - as it stands, the movie would be primarily
: a long line of pure action sequences with no real
: consequences, interjected by consequention sequences
: (the scripted battles and things mentioned in the
: journal). So the long strings of redundant battles
: could be shortened to allow the rest of the valuable
: plot information to fit in.
To keep the epic feeling of the movie they'd need to remove a few of the levels because they would seem to be out of place and after the seen is over htey would be met with a "OK, what eh hell was that all about." Two levels I can think of right away are A traitor's Grave and Ambush at Devil's OVerlook. To me these levels always seemed kind of away from the actual story and not a major event. People would want to see the battle for madrigal more than Traitor's Grave and they may even want to leeve out the whole Comfort business with distracting the Fallen. That all seems too in depth. Ocourse it could be argued that that would be best, but keep in mind that most of the people who would see this movie wouldn't know the story to begin with (that is considering that people other than Myth fans go at all) so these small side show scenes wouldn't truly make any sense. "Why'd they put THAT in?" is what people will be asking. In short, the movie wouldn't live up to the game and a lot of scenes would have to be cut out.
Plus consider the fact that in each level the Legion seems to have different people in it and some levels theres only 8 and suddenly theres 30 or maybe just 15. This brings me to this scenario: Pretend #1 is a hardcore Myth player and he brings his butt-ugly (besides the point) girlfriend to see the new movie called "Myth: The Fallen Lords Movie"
#2"I thought the Legion was big, theres only 5"
#1"The Legion is in the backround. Just watch"
#2"But the man said he was the Legion and theres no Legion"
#1"Its a detachment. They're out moving somehere else"
#2"What about that Head thing. Where is that?"
#1"Its in Madrigal... I think"
#2"Well where did the Legion come from! They just came from the North? Whos even commanding it and who are the Nine?! They only mentioned 5!"
#1"We don't know who the other four is just like we only know who four of the Fallen Lords are"
#2"But I thought there were 6 Lords"
#1"There are."
#2"::blank stare for about 3 minutes:: I NEVER WANNA SEE YOU AGAIN!!"
#1"FINE DAMMIT NOW GIMME MY 3.50 FOR THE MOVIE TICKET!"
::goes on until they are kicked out of the theatre::
So you see, a Myth movie could very well bring about the end of society from endless questions of "why" and "but."
:P
Thoth-
