If you could make a movie...

What would you do? What is your dream movie?

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For me, it would be a trilogy of Avatar: The Last Airbender done the right way.

I would make it an animated movie with a realistic art style. A cross between live action and animation, if you will. I would use motion capture to fully copy the actor's facial movements and gestures, and then edit them with computers to make them look like a 2d animation and add in real shadows. I think this would allow for an easier and more enticing alternative to full blown 3d CGI since I wouldn't need to put in every detail for insignificant objects. During the day I would have the color palette be colorful and vibrant, and at night it would be dark and gritty, similar to Akira.

I would have all of the inhabitants of the Earth be of all races, but I would make sure that the main characters are of color. Aang would have darker skin than in the cartoon, like a midrange tan since the majority of Tibetan monks have dark skin. Katara and Sokka would be obviously Inuit, but could easily be played by anyone that looks like they are of Native American, Hispanic, or Asian descent. They would also retain their dark skin, just like in the show. Zuko would have light skin, again, just like in the show, but would need to be Asian. Casting almost all Asian main cast members would be for helping the Asian acting community get a chance at large role in a film, not just for sheer accuracy. The actual skin tone of the actors won't matter much, since that can be altered in the editing. They would still have to be of the right ethnicity, or at least close to it.

I would remove all kiddy crap from the films and restrict humor for pure comic relief. For example, no cabbage salseman, no foamy mouth guy, et cetera. Sokka would not do anything idiotic like he did quite often in the second and third seasons. Instead I would keep his character as the sarcastic, intelligent member of the Gaang who always comes up with the plan. In the first movie, he would still have his sexist and debby downer attitude, but overtime (especially after meeting Yue and watching her die) he would mature and remove his prejudices. In the second and third films, this development would constantly improve until the climax of the third when he becomes a hardened, battle worn warrior.

Aang would not change very much, but his random fun time penguin sledding shenanigans would be toned down a bit. He would basically be a happy, carefree, but very secretive child, which would lead to his confession to Katara about him running away from the air temple. He would slowly begin to lose his happiness as he sees more and more of the suffering in the world, and will almost always feel that it is his fault. By the time they lose Appa he becomes very moody, heartbroken, and irrational. This would make his decision between Katara and the Avatar state even harder, due to his broken mind. He finally becomes as wise and disciplined as the Dalai Lama himself halfway through the third film.

Mai and Ty-lee would be a bit different. Mai would be be combined with Jin's character (the chick that Zuko goes on a date with in Ba Sing Se). So she would be less of a ***** and more of a sarcastic, funny, and lovingly *****y character. Ty-lee would be retain the same personality, but a bit less bubbly and a lot less valley girl.

Ozai would have more of a reason for being evil than just for the sake of being evil. Have some more background to the Ursa and Ozai saga, and have that as part of the motivation. Similar to the Anakin and Padme tragedy in Star Wars only a lot more believable and conflicting. Throw in some Titus Andronicus insanity and you have your Ozai.

After that all of the characters would remain the same.

I would show more of the devastation the war has caused, be less brief about the genocide of the Airbenders, and not be afraid to show death. In fact, I would let the elements be more dangerous, like showing blood and letting you hear bones being crushed by earthbenders, etc.

I would aim for a PG-13 rating, and allow for some foul language, since it's very common in the world.

For the score I would hire Clinton Shorter. Reason? Tell me this isn't bad ass and full of Avatar-esque sounds, only at a slower pace (which are around 62 seconds in):



What about you? What is your dream movie?

...What? You don't like the cabbage salesman? At least leave him in while taking all the other crap out. I actually laughed whenever he appeared on the show. But other than that, then I think your idea was pretty bad-ass.

Wasn't there going to be a movie for Avatar already? Has that fallen through or something, because I haven't heard anything about it in a while.

Anyway...

I would like to make a movie version of Okami. I think if it was done in some really nice 3D then someone could pull it off, maybe like the graphics in all these movies that are coming out now like Where the Wild Things Are. Then if you get some good voice actors for them, maybe so they sound like those little voices characters got in the game, it would pull together pretty well. I think you could put in the whole story without removing much at all.

Hmmm, a trilogy that chronicles OOT. If it has to be a book...anybody ever heard of The Host?

Originally Posted by Oni Dark Link

Hmmm, a trilogy that chronicles OOT. If it has to be a book...anybody ever heard of The Host?

You mean that one book by Stephanie Meyer? If that's the book, then it is being made.

Originally Posted by Chari

...What? You don't like the cabbage salesman? At least leave him in while taking all the other crap out. I actually laughed whenever he appeared on the show. But other than that, then I think your idea was pretty bad-ass.

Wasn't there going to be a movie for Avatar already? Has that fallen through or something, because I haven't heard anything about it in a while.

No, I enjoyed the cabbage salesman a lot, as well as Sokka's randomness I just think that that style of humor would be very inappropriate for the serious mood I would be trying to convey. If I could find a place where it could work, then yes the cabbage salesman would be a go go. Of course, witty humor would still be very present in Sokka and Aang, as well as in the occasional Appa and Momo moments, and then eventually in Toph, Mai, and Ty Lee. For the most part I would be using the style of humor used in the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings trilogies. Iroh humor, in more specific terms =). God that character is so badass. And thanks for liking the idea!

And yes, "The Last Airbender" is still going to be released and is already in the editing stage. I just think that it looks like heaping dose of **** and an insult to the original show Plus the cast is ridiculously bad, and an obvious example of Hollywood racism.

I'd probably turn "by the river" by Steven Herrick into a movie.

Originally Posted by Chari

You mean that one book by Stephanie Meyer? If that's the book, then it is being made.

It is? I'll have to check on this.

I'd make an anime FE movie featuring Ike and his mercenaries, of course. :3

Or I'd make a Zelda movie that's in OoT's art style.

Either one works for me. ;D

Remake Spawn into an actual masterpiece than the garbage and joke it's been called out as.

I'd turn The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 into a movie if I had the budget and equipment.