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brightknightie) wrote2026-05-31 07:55 am
brightknightie) wrote2026-05-31 07:55 am
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Imagining the Zelda movie will be good
Imagining with hope that next year's live-action The Legend of Zelda movie could be everything good and nothing disappointing, I then imagined myself later bringing a DVD copy on a visit to a friend who doesn't often go to theaters, and saying something like:
I know you're not likely to ever play the games, but thank you for making time to watch the movie with me and maybe understand my interest a little from the movie. I'm sure you know some of the biggest elements from cultural osmosis and because you're a Tolkien fan (Tolkien was a primary inspiration for the first game, and one of the subsequent games is an out-and-out Tolkien/Jackson homage). Beyond that, I'll just say, this movie is not the same story as any of the games and that's the way it's supposed to be. The way this story universe works is either that it is a "legend," retold and reimagined and reclaimed, every incarnation independent yet intertextual, or that it is a timeline that, oversimplified, diverges into three branches -- one in which the hero triumphed, one in which he failed, and one in which he wasn't there -- each cursed to endlessly repeat the battle with primordial evil.
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I know you're not likely to ever play the games, but thank you for making time to watch the movie with me and maybe understand my interest a little from the movie. I'm sure you know some of the biggest elements from cultural osmosis and because you're a Tolkien fan (Tolkien was a primary inspiration for the first game, and one of the subsequent games is an out-and-out Tolkien/Jackson homage). Beyond that, I'll just say, this movie is not the same story as any of the games and that's the way it's supposed to be. The way this story universe works is either that it is a "legend," retold and reimagined and reclaimed, every incarnation independent yet intertextual, or that it is a timeline that, oversimplified, diverges into three branches -- one in which the hero triumphed, one in which he failed, and one in which he wasn't there -- each cursed to endlessly repeat the battle with primordial evil.
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