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Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?
Posted By: Rick BlaineDate: 5/16/02 10:48 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Plot lines? whaddya think? (Mark Levin)

: People tend to die in wars. I don't really see how a modern movie with a
: theme related to humans in wartime can be completely without its
: consequences.

I understand your point. The 'old school' war movies surely are dishonest, because they never showed the true nature of death in combat. We don't have the 'Saving Private Ryan' historical accuracy justification here. From the Pfhor POV, the Battle of Tau Ceti is not a war at all. It's a cattle drive. The Pfhor are slavers, the more BoBs they kill, the fewer they can sell, so they only want to kill those who resist. Killing all BoBs changes the Pfhor into Nazis. BoBs do die, they just do it mostly offstage. The massacre at the beginning is needed to establish the idea of 'no surrender', and we can do it without showing a single drop of red blood. Killing BoBs who show resistance is just 'culling the herd' to the Pfhor. Most of the BoBs we see are running _away_ from combat, since they're so overmatched. Even when they do die when cornered or when fighting next to the cyborg, the wounds are mostly from energy weapons. Little or no blood. Seeing a BoB take a shot from a Pfhor staff, looking down at the bloodless hole, then toppling over would be cool. Every human corpse the cyborg sees is one more 'straw on the camel's back'. Especially if our hero is the one who got them made dead.

: I was thinking more like Robocop. Perfect execution, flawed internals or
: situation.

I'm glad you brought him up. Robocop tells the story of Frankenstein. Robocop is a made thing. A machine. A monster. We can see that our hero is a machine, but we learn he's still very human. We begin to suspect this when we see his first tear. Marathon takes Robocop and stands him on his head. We think our hero is human, but we learn he's really a made thing. How much of a machine can you be, and still remain human? We know the Bungie answer.

The cyborg has to win every fight. Period. If he loses or dies the movie is over. End of story. Your idea about how the cyborg handles a weapons jam is great! The kicker is that the cyborg (and the audience) must think he's fully human for as long as possible. He has to bleed. Once we show the cargo manifest describing the 10 cyborgs aboard (one of the only two terminals we absolutely need, because we must discover this fact 'by accident'), and once Leela tells us about the 9 cyborgs fighting dirtside, our story is complete.

Lose this and all you have left is a another generic bughunt, not Marathon.

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     Plot lines? whaddya think?Shotgun Pete 5/14/02 12:08 a.m.
           Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Mark Levin 5/14/02 2:23 a.m.
                 Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Jonah 5/14/02 7:33 a.m.
                       Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Boomer 5/14/02 9:04 a.m.
                             Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Will 5/16/02 7:04 p.m.
                       Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Pedrof 5/14/02 9:31 a.m.
                             Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Mark Levin 5/14/02 11:10 a.m.
                                   Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Yossarian 5/14/02 1:57 p.m.
                                         Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Steve Levinson 5/15/02 11:59 a.m.
                                               Re: yeah, but...Yossarian 5/15/02 1:58 p.m.
                                                     Re: yeah, but...Boomer 5/15/02 2:15 p.m.
                                                     Re: about the intricate plot.Shotgun Pete 5/15/02 3:30 p.m.
                             Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Jonah 5/14/02 2:29 p.m.
                                   Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Shotgun Pete 5/15/02 3:34 p.m.
                             Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/14/02 11:33 p.m.
                                   Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Mark Levin 5/15/02 1:23 a.m.
                                         Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/15/02 11:02 a.m.
                                               Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Mark Levin 5/15/02 11:23 a.m.
                                                     Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/15/02 5:01 p.m.
                                                           Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Mark Levin 5/16/02 2:21 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/16/02 10:48 a.m.
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                                               Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Shotgun Pete 5/21/02 2:32 p.m.
                 Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/14/02 10:06 p.m.
           Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Rick Blaine 5/16/02 5:11 p.m.
                 Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Shotgun Pete 5/20/02 8:37 a.m.
                 Re: Plot lines? whaddya think?Shotgun Pete 5/21/02 2:45 p.m.
           Re: movie plotJohn Denton 5/23/02 4:49 p.m.
                 Re: movie plotShotgun Pete 5/23/02 10:04 p.m.
                       Re: movie plotJohn Denton 5/23/02 11:06 p.m.
     Re: Marathon Movie (Not!)Mike 6/14/02 12:44 p.m.
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