auroraexpress | Bond Post: Gifts and Movies

Who: Heroes
When: Day 40 Afternoon To Evening
Where: Lounge Car

[So this afternoon, there will be a smell in the lounge car. Namely, Pizza. After a little bit of trial and error for some of the extra ingredients, Dusk had figured out the right ratios for pizza dough and the rest was just not burning the whole thing. Which he managed to succeed at, judging by the rather good smell.]

[As the last of the pizzas were cooking, he jogged the length of the train, knocking on team doors with a call of 'movies in the lounge car' through the door before he was off to pass the message. For those curious, they will come to find Dusk in the lounge car, having brought a few more tables from the dining car upstairs to the public lounge, setting out pizza and carbonated drinks. Chairs and couches and various form of sitting has been pushed to more easily see the large TV.]

[Once a decent number of people have gathered, Dusk will be by the TV.]

So I've been informed a number of you don't know what movies are. Today, we're going to fix that. For reference, what we're going to watch is a fictional story.

Its called Star Wars and those of you know the story? No spoilers.

Let's get started.

[Cue Music]

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I'll spread them out over some months. Mixed with other stuff.

Sounds like there's a lot to look forward to, then. ♪♫

Oh yeah.

I'll get the clone wars too, you'll probably enjoy them.

[See Anakin's style.]

The Clone Wars...? I'm guessing that's not one of the movies.

[ He will absolutely love the Clone Wars. ]

It was a series. Movies like Star Wars was made to be seen in theaters, with giant screens and bigger budgets. But people had screens like this, but generally smaller, in their homes and there was daily shows playing on them.

That's television. You could tell a longer story, but spread out over time with shorter chunks. Somewhere between fifteen and sixty minutes, but smaller budgets.

The clone wars is a series based on the Star Wars universe. Obi Wan is in it, and a lot cooler, as well as some others, but that might be ruining some surprises. It's also animation, so they can do pretty much whatever wild thing their budget can cover.

Animation?

[ You've lost him again, sorry. ]

You ever see those flip books? Like you have a bunch of the same drawing, but slightly different so when you flip the pages, it looks like it's moving?

I don't directly remember the concept but it feels familiar enough that I'm gonna say "yes" anyhow.

Well, if you can imagine that.

It's that.

For thirty minutes with sound.

Oh! Okay, yeah I think I get it now.

Yeah. And instead of having to play with angles and models to do things like explosions or a bunch of make up for aliens, you can just draw them.

Is that how that works in these movies?

[ He'd thought they were using Arts or something. ]

Man, they should just animate all of 'em. Sounds a hell of a lot easier.

[Not everyone has not!magic.]

Yeah. Took a while to literally film in space. This was made over a century before space travel was that viable.

Both have pros and cons. I think good animation takes longer than most movies because everything comes from scratch. And a lot of movies take place in real settings. Like most romances don't need to figure out to make a building explode, a lot easier to just film with real actors. And real explosions are cooler than a drawn one.

Sometimes it's cool to make things come to life. Sometimes its better with animation because you can just do more creatively.

That makes sense. Well, it looks good for what they've got so I guess they know what they're doing.

Oh yeah. Some movies may not always put in the effort, but the ones that do always have something fun to admire, at the very least. And there's a reason these spawned so many sequels.

I figured it was just the story-- oh, the hot chick's back!

[ Leia, he means Leia. ]

Her name is Leia.

Right, that was her name. Leia.

She's pretty awesome.

I take it that happens later? Mostly she's just been a captive so far.

Oh yeah. She does plenty later.

I'll look forward to it, then.

[ He'll definitely find her even hotter when she's doing stuff. ]

[None can deny the power of Carrie Fisher.]

[Nodding and gonna focus more on the movie again.]

[ He's going to focus, too. He'll even manage to be quiet through the end of Episode IV and into the start of Episode V. ]

"The Empire Strikes Back," huh?

Hey, gotta bounce back somehow, right?

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