Repelling Spider wrote:Duke Boy wrote:3. Violence for the sake of violence. The violence in so many brickifilms come across to me as a little kid shouting: "lol, killing people is kewl, right?! right?!". This usually happens in the aforementioned 'Starwars/Indiana Jones/Batman brickfilms.
This brings up an interesting point. I've also noticed just how many Brickfilms involve violence. I've also noticed that so many new filmers and younger people on this site are completely focused on action and violence in their shorts. This isn't to say that some nice action isn't good, because if used correctly it's great.
Right, violence can be used to be cool, or for 'da lulz' if it's used correctly. But most of the time it seems immature, or overly brutal. For instance I recently watched a commonly generic Star Wars brickfilm where two stormtroopers play a "prank" on Vader. One of them starts hitting Vader with a metal pipe, and blood spatters all over the floor. The other stormtrooper looks on in horror as his fellow stormtrooper pulls out a gun and shoots Vader. This sort of setup could be humorous, but it was done wrong. The violence wasn't funny, it was bloody and cringe worthy. And the other stormtroopers reaction isn't funny, because all he did was stand there and vomit. All of this made a already boring and generic brickfilm just unpleasant, something I don't think the creator was going for (maybe he was, I don't know). A better example of violence being funny in a recent brickfilm is Zach FB's Ninja Dare. But yeah, i've probably been going on about this for too long so, i'll stop now.
Rusty wrote:In my opinion swearing does nothing to make a brickfilm better.
In most cases yes. But in my opinion, swearing/language/cursing/idon'tknow is a literary tool to be used very sparingly, and only at the proper times.
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