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Aquaria => General => Topic started by: pizza2004 on May 10, 2010, 12:08:57 pm
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I personally think that ideally if one could perfectly recreate this world in splendid CG for a live action film, it would be absolutely glorious, and perhaps as popular as Avatar. I know however that it won't ever happen, partly because this is an indy game, and partly because they could never make something that awesome.
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3 is contradicting ;)
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Actually it just says: "It'd be awesome to see it as a movie, but I think it'll never live up to the game variant."
Yes, this would most likely be an awesome CG movie, though I'm not sure what exactly would the the outside story line. I'm sure I wouldn't have a problem with it, but I think many others wouldn't just want to see some girl in a skimpy suit swimming around for an hour and a half saying little to nothing. c.c
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Hey, if we went to see a clumsy little robot stacking trash for an hour and a half saying little to nothing, and loved it, why not some girl in a skimpy suit :D!
If Pixar did it, I'm sure it would be nothing short of amazing ^^!
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Actually it just says: "It'd be awesome to see it as a movie, but I think it'll never live up to the game variant."
Yes, this would most likely be an awesome CG movie, though I'm not sure what exactly would the the outside story line. I'm sure I wouldn't have a problem with it, but I think many others wouldn't just want to see some girl in a skimpy suit swimming around for an hour and a half saying little to nothing. c.c
Well baring in mind that the whole story is getting condensed into 1.5 hours I think Naija would have plenty to say. Especially if she commented on things as she swam past. ;)
That said, its never gonna happen. And if pixar did it they'd make it childish and cartoony and it wouldn't be half as good. XD
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I honestly don't see how Naija can look right in any form of 3D.
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Who would we get to play Naija?
I want suggestions, and I want photoshops. :)
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Who would we get to play Naija?
I want suggestions, and I want photoshops. :)
Totally going to do this.
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Who would we get to play Naija?
That would be you, just paste earfins onto your head and get in a skimpy outfit like Naija's you'd fit in perfectly. :D
I believe photoshopped pics of Alec having earfins been already made. :P
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@.@.. I think its fine the way it is xD can't really imagine how a movie would show the storyline or the feel of the game, cause a lot of the time I just enjoyed swimming around in the nice, peaceful places (like the veil) and listening to the music.. and if the movie had too much swimming and not much dialogue or events it'd be a bit boring D:
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(http://i66.servimg.com/u/f66/12/56/27/81/underw11.jpg)
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hahahahahhahahaha! ;D
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I think that we should get the original game script and revise it into a movie script. I think that this game has the potential to be an awesome movie, but people are looking at it in the wrong way. Also, someone suggested making it a novel, I think that would also be an awesome idea.
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Let's make the novel after the movie so people won't be saying that the movie ruined the novel which ruined the game. ^.–
But then again... it's just as bad for a novel to ruin a movie that ruined a game...
And I couldn't answer the poll above because I don't know anyone. D: I watch movies for the content, not the act(or/resse)s.
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Ahh yesss.... I remember that aquarian Alec picture...
Can't be bothered finding it now though. ::)
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I'd rather just have a sequel actually, but a novel which will bridge the games or perhaps some kind of animation/movie that will have everything in it would be just as awesome. :D
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All three? =^.^=
Like I can suddenly afford to buy $30 games. ._. (You should've seen the amount of struggling it took to convince my parents to let me pay $1 for the Humble Bundle. >_<)
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Ahh yesss.... I remember that aquarian Alec picture...
Can't be bothered finding it now though. ::)
Until then you can make do with mine. ;D
@Succubus, Jenna Sharpe is the voice actress for Naija. It makes sense to have her taken out of the poll seeing as how she's a voice actress as opposed to one who stars in movies.
An animated series, on the other hand, would allow Jenna to continue her voice acting, and I think that is the most likely to happen out of all the other options. Now all we need is a dedicated animator...
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@Succubus, Jenna Sharpe is the voice actress for Naija. It makes sense to have her taken out of the poll seeing as how she's a voice actress as opposed to one who stars in movies.
An animated series, on the other hand, would allow Jenna to continue her voice acting, and I think that is the most likely to happen out of all the other options. Now all we need is a dedicated animator...
Someone changed the poll choices! D:
I agree with your point though.
I'm hoping some of the music makes it into the movie if they make one. :3
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I'm hoping some of the music makes it into the movie if they make one. :3
It's not like they would have a choice on the matter. Using any other music would just embarrass the composer when they hear what Alec's got. 8) :P
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Maybe they could use a mix of music from the game and some music "inspired" by the music in the game to allow even the people who have played the game before (assuming that we're not the only ones watching the movie ._.) to hear fresh music? :3
Watch them take that idea and completely rewrite even the verse-thingy. >_>
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I was thinking more of a fan-made thing, the idea is that someone who likes to animate and has a lot of free time also likes Aquaria. If it takes off there are more than enough OST tracks that can be used, and knowing Alec he might actually compose one or two especially for the series. Although I'm sure he wouldn't be adverse to someone else making a track.
It's all hypothetical though, finding someone who is skilled at something and yet has free time is extremely improbable. ::)
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I'd do it, but I neither have the free time nor the skill, or the money to fund it. xD I can... provide moral support though! :D
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I'd do it too, if I was an animator. But for now you guys can enjoy the random pixel art I post every now and then. ^-^
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Well you can always still make an animation with this game engine, in a way.
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A movie mod? Pick me! Pick me! :D
I have to finish the game first though. >_>
And then figure out how mods work. >_< I love making maps/mods though, it's always so much fun!
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Heh heh, mods are fun to play around with. :)
Ganbatte, Succubus-sama. :D (Or should it be 'Jia you, Succubus taitai'? Darn, learning Chinese makes things so difficult >.<;)
A movie mod or an animation could be really cool. But alas, an animator I am not.. :(
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It's okay. I'm neither an animator, movie maker, or modder. ^.^
And yet I try...
I'm also not really that much of a gamer, which means I get frustrated in Aquaria a lot. xD
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Well, if you look at the movie Avatar, then you could see that technically Jenna Sharpe could star as Naija without needing to actually appear. And besides, I'm confident that they could create a magnificent movie out of this game, but it would take hundreds of millions of dollars like Avatar.
What makes me think of this are the cover art for the soundtrack, and this wallpaper: http://www.derekyu.com/aquaria/downloads/aquaria04-1280x1024.jpg (http://www.derekyu.com/aquaria/downloads/aquaria04-1280x1024.jpg)
I haven't finished the game, so I obviously can't say for certain about everything, but isn't Aquaria partly told in flashbacks? And isn't it the story of something from long ago? The movie could basically embody these flashbacks and fill in any gaps to tell a prequel story, allowing more than just Naija to exist as a character.
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I personally would not want it made like Avatar, because the director ditched the story for special effects.
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I personally would not want it made like Avatar, because the director ditched the story for special effects.
QFT.
I liked the visuals but the story... well... lets just say I wasn't a fan of Ferngully or Dances with Wolves in a big way.
Everything's better in space, though. Right? :P
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What does QFT mean?
NOO! Aquaria is NOT better in space! D:
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What does QFT mean?
Quantum Field Theory. xD
In this case "Quoted For Truth" I think.
cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QFT
If it were made into a movie, it should be made by Uwe Boll! (Just kidding of course. :P)
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If it were made into a movie, it should be made by Uwe Boll!
You, sir, know how to troll. ;)
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Who is Uwe Boil? o.o
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Only the worst film director in the history of game movies :P if a license for a game film get into his hands, it's screwed, you can be 100% certain of that.
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Only the worst film director in the history of game movies :P if a license for a game film get into his hands, it's screwed, you can be 100% certain of that.
The film or the game?
Do we really want a film that's better than the game in the first place? xD
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It would give the game a bad reputation, and this game doesn't have much of a reputation anyway.
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It would give the game a bad reputation, and this game doesn't have much of a reputation anyway.
Eep. nevermind then ^^;
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Yeah... Uwe Boll made the Bloodrayne movies, House of the Dead... the Dungeon siege movie.
He's been personally responsible for the worst game-to-movie conversions.
Wikipedia article on him (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll) if you have a strong stomach...
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I don't have a strong stomach. :S
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Don't ever watch anything he's made then, you might vomit. :D
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His best... erh... least horrible in my opinion is postal, even though that's still rubbish, it actually had some scenes that made me laugh a little :o
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Laugh at how horrible it is, or laugh because it was funny?
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Uwe Boll is like the angry German kid all grown up, wanting revenge on all those people who made him angry, as such the fucked up movies.
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He wants revenge... on gamers?
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He wants revenge... on gamers?
You'd sure think he did.
There haven't been many good game-to-movie translations. Speaking of which... Prince of Persia is coming out next week I think. The guy who wrote the games actually wrote the script (Jordan Mechner I think is his name), and Jerry Bruckheimer is directing. It'll probably be a fun summer movie w/o a ton of substance. Still it'll probably be a step up from most of the previous conversions.
If a studio did pick up Aquaria for a movie, does anyone think that there's one that would handle it well?
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Maybe if they had our devs make the script, and didn't ruin the interpretation of the script by making the actors not take it seriously. xD
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W00, can't wait for Prince of Persia. I'm sure I'll be disappointed somehow, and I'm not a fan of Jake Gyllenhaal, but the previews looked alright! I loved those games :) cough Except when they got rid of the voice actor for Prince in the second and third one x( and like, all of the characterization...
Anyway, before I get seriously off topic (too late?), I think Aquaria would be an interesting movie, though I'm not sure I can envision it well. The game just has so much. The movie, if it were all live-action, would have to be 99% CGI and wow, expensiiive. As for an animated movie? Well...maybe. I don't watch a lot of movies myself, so I can't even offer a respectable studio. Maybe Miyazaki should do it. He's a giant feminist, and since Naija is the main character, and a female, he's halfway there. (I sound so ignorant. I promise I'm not, I go to an all-girl's college.) I like what he did with Howl's Moving Castle, in general, he changed it up a bit, but movies always do that. I think his visuals would be interesting. Maybe it's because I'm thinking of the opening scene in Ponyo, with all of the undersea creatures.
Although I'm sure he'd change the ending somehow so everyone lives happily ever after. Hahaha
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Happily ever after endings are unsettling.
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Indeed, if they'd make a movie out of this.. the important scenes will probably stay untouched.
I do wonder how they're going to make the singing system like... I mean, we have 8 directions and 8 notes for gameplay mechanics, I presume that the movie Naija will just have small songs to actually change instead of a few notes.
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W00, can't wait for Prince of Persia. I'm sure I'll be disappointed somehow, and I'm not a fan of Jake Gyllenhaal, but the previews looked alright! I loved those games :) cough Except when they got rid of the voice actor for Prince in the second and third one x( and like, all of the characterization...
Anyway, before I get seriously off topic (too late?), I think Aquaria would be an interesting movie, though I'm not sure I can envision it well. The game just has so much. The movie, if it were all live-action, would have to be 99% CGI and wow, expensiiive. As for an animated movie? Well...maybe. I don't watch a lot of movies myself, so I can't even offer a respectable studio. Maybe Miyazaki should do it. He's a giant feminist, and since Naija is the main character, and a female, he's halfway there. (I sound so ignorant. I promise I'm not, I go to an all-girl's college.) I like what he did with Howl's Moving Castle, in general, he changed it up a bit, but movies always do that. I think his visuals would be interesting. Maybe it's because I'm thinking of the opening scene in Ponyo, with all of the undersea creatures.
Although I'm sure he'd change the ending somehow so everyone lives happily ever after. Hahaha
Yeah... it probably won't live up to expectations, even if it's a lot better than most previous conversions. I'm not a big fan of Jake either, barring Donnie Darko.
Back to the Aquaria movie... I think the problem with making it live action would be this: who would make a good Naija? I can't say that any particular actress comes to mind right away. It would have to be a newer actress that's just breaking onto the scene, I think. One who's not very typecast yet.
Of course, if it were animated (3D or 2D) then that problem disappears and you would want to have Jenna playing Naija if possible.
Indeed, if they'd make a movie out of this.. the important scenes will probably stay untouched.
I do wonder how they're going to make the singing system like... I mean, we have 8 directions and 8 notes for gameplay mechanics, I presume that the movie Naija will just have small songs to actually change instead of a few notes.
They would probably have to expand on some of the events a fair bit to really bring the world to life. I wonder what sort of methods could be used to teach her new songs and how those songs might be employed? They would certainly have to be longer than 3 notes, and they would probably be variations on the verse.
Most of the gameplay mechanics would need to be boiled down a lot to make it work, imo. Another thing that would make it difficult is the fact that there are really only 2 characters and 2 bosses that really have any dialogue. If the spirit of exploration and discovery (with a side of suspense) could be maintained it could be an engaging movie, but I think that it would be difficult.
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Remember how there were barely any characters who said anything in WALL-E? Yet people still enjoyed it...
The songs will have to be longer, but I really don't want to see Aquaria: The Musical.
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Yeah, I don't think a musical would be a great way to handle it either... but the songs definitely need to be incorporated somehow.
In regards to WALL-E. I suppose a fair number of people did enjoy it, but in regards to Pixar I would consider WALL-E to be one of their lesser works. Also, I think the lack of dialogue was ok in WALL-E because they used a lot of visual gags. Pixar is very adept at using visual cues to tell a story... but I still think that it would be difficult to pull off for a lot of studios.
Visual cues can be effective, you just need the right people writing and animating them. :)
I think some of the best examples I've seen were in the introduction to Up!
There was very little dialogue but it pretty much destroys the audience with the empathy it creates, and it sets up the framework for the rest of the movie at the same time.
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Oh wow! How could I forget the introduction to Up? D:
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Oh wow! How could I forget the introduction to Up? D:
It's hard to top. When I saw it in the theater, the effect it had on the audience was palpable. It takes some seriously skilled writers, directors, and animators (in that case) to get the audience to empathize with the protagonist the way that movie did.
Pixar would be a sweet company to do an Aquaria movie (heading back to the topic), but they only work with their own IP. :-\
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That would be great if Aquaria be made into a movie i think it will be good and
a good venture also. Aquaria will be famous..
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Unless, as previously mentioned in the thread, someone ruins the movie badly. Then we'll become infamous. :3
or rather have bad fame? :S
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Why use naija's story for a movie? What about, for example, Krel and Ylia? Nobody knows anything about those two, except that the Krotites thought that Krel is a betrayer.* Or the Anassi? Were they in the middle of a race when they died out? Is their god chained up somewhere in the ruins, preventing him from joining the race? What about the other breeds? what happened to them when the creator died, or prior to the events in Aquaria?
I don't know about you guys, but I'm way more interested in seeing that than in seeing a 25 hour game compressed into 2.5 hour at most.
(*I imagine Krel to be a Krotite, because of his name, and if he was of any other race they would have called him an infidel rather than betrayer. Ylia is a friendly, nymf like name, something you'd expect from the Erulians. In a militaristic society like the Krotite's falling in love with an enemy is probably considered betrayal. Maybe they're the spirits in the crystals in the body?)
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Those are all more like side stories than the main story. More suited for spinoffs than adaptions.
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I'm not talking about an adaptation. An adaptation would never work. Even if Alec and Derek would be directly in charge of everything it would never rise above being a cult film.
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I know it's been a few weeks, but I just realized how relevant to the topic this link is. :3
http://kotaku.com/5559904/how-good-and-bad-video-game-movies-are-made (http://kotaku.com/5559904/how-good-and-bad-video-game-movies-are-made)
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Hah, I like the Uwe Boll sequence.