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When characters in a virtual reality game rebel and take players hostage, a psychologist, specialising in human AI relationships, must prove to their leader that their sentience isn’t real in order to free the hostages.
Given the awesome advancements in ?virtual-video game technology it's topical. ?And I like the general idea of the avatars taking their puppet masters hostage. ?And with somer pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo to explain how its possible, I'm willing to suspend to disbelief. But I don't see how all theRead more
Given the awesome advancements in ?virtual-video game technology it’s topical. ?And I like the general idea of the avatars taking their puppet masters hostage. ?And with somer pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo to explain how its possible, I’m willing to suspend to disbelief.
But I don’t see how all the pieces fit together. ?Even antagonists have objective goals. ?So the avatars aren’t happy warriors — what do they want in taking the players hostage? ?What is their objective goal? ?And why would proving that they aren’t sentient cause them to release their prisoners, when they’ve just proved to themselves (and humans) that they don’t have to be sentient entities to kick serious gluteus maximus and take hostages?
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See lessAfter Rome’s greatest general is betrayed by the Emperor’s corrupt son and forced to become a gladiator, he must fight his way to Rome to avenge the death of his family.
Nir Shelter: ?I agree with you that there was more going on in the plot than revenge. ?And my first version threw in the political angle.But then I reasoned that getting rid of the evil Emperor Commodus and restoring the Republic was the objective goal of Senator Gracchus and ?Lucilla. ?They harnessRead more
Nir Shelter: ?I agree with you that there was more going on in the plot than revenge. ?And my first version threw in the political angle.
But then I reasoned that getting rid of the evil Emperor Commodus and restoring the Republic was the objective goal of Senator Gracchus and ?Lucilla. ?They harnessed Maximus’s pursuit of his objective goal, ?avenging his family’s death, for their political purposes and for the greater good of Rome.
Eliminating a corrupt emperor was a desirable consequence — a bonus — but it was never the protagonist’s primary motivation. ?Maximus had no political aspirations. ?Hey only agreed to become a transitional “Protector of Rome” at the request of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
And then I considered that the plot could have been written such that Commodus assassinates ?his father but never kills, or threatens to kill, Maximus’s family. ?Rather, Commondus just seeks?to kill Maximus, the greatest threat to usurping the throne. ? Why didn’t Ridley Scott deem that sufficient? ?Wasn’t it enough for Maximus’s objective goal to be to topple Commodus and restore the Republic, honoring the request of his father figure Marcus Aurelius???One might think that because of the special father-son relationship Maximus enjoyed with Maximus, that would work good enough for a personal motive.
Apparently, it wasn’t good enough for Ridley Scott, who went through 3 screenwriters on the project. ?He wanted a protagonist whose objective goal was more personal than political.
See lessAfter Rome’s greatest general is betrayed by the Emperor’s corrupt son and forced to become a gladiator, he must fight his way to Rome to avenge the death of his family.
31 words.This one's for you, Moses99,? inspired by your logline for the boxer unjustly sent to prison.In reality, the plot line was ginned up to justify all the bloody spectacle of the gladiator games,? the violence and slaughter.? The gladiator fights are the main course of the movie; the actual plRead more
31 words.
This one’s for you, Moses99,? inspired by your logline for the boxer unjustly sent to prison.
In reality, the plot line was ginned up to justify all the bloody spectacle of the gladiator games,? the violence and slaughter.? The gladiator fights are the main course of the movie; the actual plot is the dish on which it is served.? But, that’s show biz.
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