tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post2662149625193424315..comments2024-03-15T02:50:17.397-04:00Comments on Pleasure for the Empire: Answer the QuestionAndrew Bellwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718623679244389126noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post-50011188637786237282008-10-20T16:55:00.000-04:002008-10-20T16:55:00.000-04:00Ha!Ha!Chance Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18357505066900410563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post-75871714225766137702008-10-20T12:19:00.000-04:002008-10-20T12:19:00.000-04:00Thanks Chance. I think I could have named the post...Thanks Chance. I think I could have named the post "Making Features is <I>Hard</I>". ;-)Andrew Bellwarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05718623679244389126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post-72379988753348072562008-10-20T11:07:00.000-04:002008-10-20T11:07:00.000-04:00Great post, Andrew. The hardest thing about making...Great post, Andrew. The hardest thing about making a feature is keeping the tone consistent, and I think you've done a good job explaining (at least part of) what that entails.Chance Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18357505066900410563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post-25502534819201839022008-10-20T09:25:00.000-04:002008-10-20T09:25:00.000-04:00And you may be right -- it may be cultural which i...And you may be right -- it may be cultural which is why BestBuy went for one cover and the Japanese went for the other.Andrew Bellwarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05718623679244389126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post-59337525779508666582008-10-20T09:24:00.000-04:002008-10-20T09:24:00.000-04:00I can certainly dig a big dark spaceship on the co...I can certainly dig a big dark spaceship on the cover. Of course, that would be a different movie. And if we had a big dark spaceship to look at in the writing/producing process then we'd probably focus on <I>that</I> movie.<BR/><BR/>Actually, my issue with the Japanese cover is that it implies that the movie is animated.Andrew Bellwarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05718623679244389126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18058147.post-455481580045254802008-10-20T09:18:00.000-04:002008-10-20T09:18:00.000-04:00Don't judge a book by it's cover. I'm looking at ...Don't judge a book by it's cover. I'm looking at this from a consumer view point rather than the film maker. It is amazing how much preconceptions are altered by cover art. If I saw the two dvd's in BestBuy next to each other, I would probably pick up the darker one and skip over the Japanese flavoured one. This is probably partly cultural, I THINK I don't like Japanese films. Maybe it's just a preference. I like the darkness and the looming planet. Although I do think that it would have been a better cover in either version had the large spaceship from the end of the movie been on the cover. ;-)Phillip Drawbridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12547483414939593115noreply@blogger.com