How easygoing is it to write a Best Picture - worthy scifi motion-picture show ? As slowly as slapping tried and true tropes together to produce a scuffle drunken Frankenstein of a motion-picture show ! Gird your loins for the most critically applaud scifi film EVER !
Thanks to Avatar and District 9 , there ’s been a lot of hubbub that the 82nd Academy Awards is science fiction ’s coming - out party as critically worthwhile genre . Given that io9 is a science fable site , I have a vested pastime in critics deluge scifi movies with kudos . As a rule of thumb , good reviews equals audience which equals money which equal continuation which equals Burger King plaything which equals me having a job . So out of my own unembarrassed ego - sake , I will give away to you , gentle reader , my clandestine rule to penning a Best Picture - caliber skill fiction movie . I call this “ The io9 Method , ” and to show to you that it ’s 100 % legit , I will pen the greatest scifi film of 2010 … in one afternoon .
What is The io9 Method ? Why , it ’s so obvious that you would n’t even cognise its being apply . It ’s like atomic number 7 . Almost 80 % of the atmosphere is atomic number 7 , but do you ever pause to think , “ Fuck , look at all this nitrogen ! ” No , you do n’t . It ’s just one of those that you implicitly accept . Obvious , yet unseen . Nitrogen is watch you lavish . Nitrogen is see you sleep .
The io9 Method is the same as N – invisibly ubiquitous . You simply take a mountain of time - screen great ideas and ramrod them together like Tetris occlusion . It ’s the natural extract of cinema . When the Method works , nobody observe . But when it flunk , it conk out stunningly . When James Cameron made Avatar , he amalgamated dancing With Wolves with FernGully with Paul Schrader ’s Cat People , and see how that turn out!Everyone ’s getting upset !
Now , for the io9 Method to work , you must be surreptitious but discerning . Here ’s a inclination of scientific discipline fable films that were constitute for Oscars . I ’ve included other speculative fiction pic due to a paucity of “ pure ” scifi nominees . Winners are in bold :
– The Wizard of Oz
– Doctor Dolittle
– A Clockwork Orange
– The exorciser
– jaw
– Star Wars
– Raiders of the Lost Ark
– E.T. the Extra - Terrestrial
– Ghost
– Beauty and the Beast
– The Green Mile
– The Sixth Sense
– The Lord of the Rings : The company of the Ring
– The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers
– The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
– embodiment
– District 9
– Up
Whew ! Now that we ’ve got our master lean of acclaimed movies , we ’ll cherry pick the good tropes . Science fable will be given more consideration , as will films about talking pigs .
1 . ) Title
Most of these flick include the word “ The ” in the title . Four of these works star some iteration of warlock ; one is about an evil shark . I ’m seeing a bunch of “ ofs . ” We ’ll go with The Wizard of The Babes . With a title like this , we ’ll see a windfall good manners of the “ confused unmarried man ” demographic .
2 . ) pose
Many of these films hap in space or some alternate dimension . Babe take situation in New Zealand . Middle Earth – for all aim and purpose – is in New Zealand . Ergo , our film will be lay out on a planet called “ Nouveau New Zealand . ”
3 . ) MacGuffin
In many of the nominee , the MacGuffin is some fantastical twist . Think ruby slippers , the One Ring , the Ark of the Covenant , Unobtanium , or Christopher Johnson ’s tin . Let ’s immix all of these lickety - rent and presto ! Our MacGuffin is a deep red anti - gravity band that talks with the vocalism of God and transforms you into an extraterrestrial dare you assume it . What shall we call this ring ? Artoo .
4 . ) The Hero ’s Alien Transformation
This class ’s harvest of scifi nominee need the hero mysteriously transmogrifying into an extraterrestrial species . In Avatar , it was a positive development – Marcus Wright got to leap around the Tree and zahelu with Uhura . In District 9 , Wikus wrench into something that live between Cthulhu ’s toenails . For The Wizard of the Babes to win the Oscar , our Cuban sandwich must become the glad mass medium between Lovecraftian and toyetic . Hey , I got the just the thing :
5 . ) The Hero
All of the champion in the above film have some made - up nonsense name like “ Frodo ” or “ Wikus ” or “ Luke . ” I know these are strong word given what ’s on my nascency security , but come now . It ’s like Hollywood has a squad of highly - paid gibberish writer or something . I ’m just not going to name the hero . Too bothersome .
5 . ) The Villain
The villain is a shark .
The Final Plot
In The Wizard of The Babes , an unnamed human from the major planet Noveau New Zealand has stumbled upon Artoo , a magic anti - gravity gang that speak with the phonation of Yahweh . Artoo transmute our protagonist into a distasteful albeit vendible alien . For reasons that are n’t wholly clear , a shark wants the ring . At some period , there is a Pixar - animated dream sequence starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood ( as themselves ) . John Williams does the grudge .
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