‘Storytelling has become the art of world building’: Avatar and the rise of the paracosm

HareBrain said:
Better quality visually. I don't tend to watch them, because the experience is increasingly distant from watching nature in reality, thanks to e.g. intrusive background music, use of slow-mo and time-lapse, and too much narration. It's become very artificial (even down to shooting footage of animals in captivity and not saying so during the programme).
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Exactly
 
According to the writer,

“More and more, storytelling has become the art of world building,” writes Henry Jenkins in Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. “The world is bigger than the film, bigger even than the franchise – since fan speculations and elaborations that also expand the world in a variety of directions.” As one screenwriter recently commented: “When I first started you would pitch a story because, without a good story, you didn’t really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good character could support multiple stories. And now you pitch a world, because a world can support multiple characters and multiple stories across multiple media.”
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Ironically, that's the reason why many new movies are awful: they assumed that because a world can support so many characters and stories, then those characters and stories will be expressed effectively as long as there's a world that can imagined to allow for them. Hence, no need to "pitch a story."

The result are movies involving worlds with churned out stories and characters that are at best mediocre because of short development time.
 
paeng said:
According to the writer,



Ironically, that's the reason why many new movies are awful: they assumed that because a world can support so many characters and stories, then those characters and stories will be expressed effectively as long as there's a world that can imagined to allow for them. Hence, no need to "pitch a story."

The result are movies involving worlds with churned out stories and characters that are at best mediocre because of short development time.
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We end up with 2 hour long Big screen game cut scenes in the guise of feature films.
 
I haven't seen Avatar: The Way of Water yet. Perhaps after Christmas.
 
Off-topic, but in light of putting together cut scenes, check this out:

"ALIEN: ISOLATION Game Movie (All Cutscenes) 1080p HD" (warning: spoilers)


Who knows, maybe they'll make an Avatar video game where the cut scenes can be turned into a movie.
 
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