😂 I love your awesome drawing. Thanks for this. My main bugbear with creature features is the believability. I think my budget is low. I'm cool with jurassic Park etc but if the people in the film have been in even one explosion and are alive and well without so much as a bit of concrete dust in their hair, I'm out. I struggled with the Godzilla films and the superhero films. How much collateral damage to buildings and infrastructure when they have a street brawl? Too much!
Absolutely! For me it doesn't even have to be an explosion, it's the 'shot in the shoulder' hero who somehow two scenes later can scale a building and fifteen defeat ninjas. I understand that injuries heighten the struggle of a hero, but if the injury doesn't impede them then the whole thing is devolves into nonsense - rather than becoming more vulnerable, the writer has made the character seemingly invulnerable and the stakes have been lowered, not raised.
Of course, then there's also those genres where the budget of believability keeps getting topped up by wry smiles and knowing looks. I'm thinking along the lines of those comedy-horror-sci-fi films like Sharknado or a multitude of "[monster] vs [other monster]" titles. I guess they become a little bit meta (your doppelganger?), and the audience sits down expecting their budget to go into the red in exchange for some laughs and silliness.
Ooh,. I like that angle - yes, I think the appeal of some films is 'how far can this blow my budget and still tell the story?' Even with something like Sharknado, it still needs to tell the story and deliver on the premise - if the characters shifted away from their typical sily-but-earnest trajectory it would destroy all interest.
It could be that some genres actually almost invert this model: for example, I vaguely remember a scene in one of the Sharknado films where a guy holding a chainsaw dives into the mouth of a shark in midair (for some reason this was necessary before the shark hit the ground, I think...). The budget actually demands that level of ridiculousness. To be *less* ridiculous would actually break the genre style and potentially push the budget into the red... It's a curious thought - thanks for adding this!
😂 I love your awesome drawing. Thanks for this. My main bugbear with creature features is the believability. I think my budget is low. I'm cool with jurassic Park etc but if the people in the film have been in even one explosion and are alive and well without so much as a bit of concrete dust in their hair, I'm out. I struggled with the Godzilla films and the superhero films. How much collateral damage to buildings and infrastructure when they have a street brawl? Too much!
Absolutely! For me it doesn't even have to be an explosion, it's the 'shot in the shoulder' hero who somehow two scenes later can scale a building and fifteen defeat ninjas. I understand that injuries heighten the struggle of a hero, but if the injury doesn't impede them then the whole thing is devolves into nonsense - rather than becoming more vulnerable, the writer has made the character seemingly invulnerable and the stakes have been lowered, not raised.
Yes. I honestly think the directors just get carried away in the fun 😅
Of course, then there's also those genres where the budget of believability keeps getting topped up by wry smiles and knowing looks. I'm thinking along the lines of those comedy-horror-sci-fi films like Sharknado or a multitude of "[monster] vs [other monster]" titles. I guess they become a little bit meta (your doppelganger?), and the audience sits down expecting their budget to go into the red in exchange for some laughs and silliness.
Ooh,. I like that angle - yes, I think the appeal of some films is 'how far can this blow my budget and still tell the story?' Even with something like Sharknado, it still needs to tell the story and deliver on the premise - if the characters shifted away from their typical sily-but-earnest trajectory it would destroy all interest.
It could be that some genres actually almost invert this model: for example, I vaguely remember a scene in one of the Sharknado films where a guy holding a chainsaw dives into the mouth of a shark in midair (for some reason this was necessary before the shark hit the ground, I think...). The budget actually demands that level of ridiculousness. To be *less* ridiculous would actually break the genre style and potentially push the budget into the red... It's a curious thought - thanks for adding this!