tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post4729942395119784360..comments2024-01-05T05:02:20.353+00:00Comments on CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: RICHARD FREEMAN FLICK'S: Age of the DragonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-42482468340216227542011-04-08T13:25:53.813+01:002011-04-08T13:25:53.813+01:00The problem with films is that you have to get all...The problem with films is that you have to get all the necessary concepts into the head of the thickest film-goer, and you only ever get the one chance to do it. In a book, the reader can flip back and re-read pages; there's no way to do that in a film. Worse, when you're doing fantasy you're aiming at a teenage market, not one traditionally good at soaking up particularly difficult concepts.<br /><br />Dragons in books are a very, very different class of creature compared to filmatic ones. A good example would be the dragons of, say, Mr Moorcock's Elric series where they are immensely powerful, immensely long-lived animals which have to spend a huge amount of their time asleep in order to survive. Negotiation with them is possible, but fraught with danger especially since to a dragon, humans all look very similar and the last time that dragon encountered one the human was busy trying to kill said dragon.<br /><br />Steven Erikson's Malazan series also makes a very good job of describing dragons; his are again immensely long-lived, intensely magical and extremely opposed to the concept of cooperation. Since his world-scenario is effectively one of a very, very long series of wars with dragons intimately involved in most of them, you end up with a scenario where a dragon will by default assume that any other sentient it encounters is an enemy, a threat and quite often lunch as well. Add in a magical system which quite often slots any sufficiently powerful creature into one of its "job-roles" as a god of some description whether the creature fancies the job or not, and you begin to understand why dragons are traditionally extremely bad news.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618328278732100203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-89184630777894923022011-04-07T20:44:34.665+01:002011-04-07T20:44:34.665+01:00Mr. Freeman, you have implied that you were not to...Mr. Freeman, you have implied that you were not too impressed by this film, why not tell us all exactly what you thought of it.Sydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633341353878192556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-24775768956414357422011-04-07T13:43:15.310+01:002011-04-07T13:43:15.310+01:00A Great White Drgon ONLY 30 Feet Long?? You have G...A Great White Drgon ONLY 30 Feet Long?? You have GOT to be kidding me! Probably if they did Moby Dick with an actual whale it would turn out to be an all-white Orca and not even an awe-inspiring outsized sperm whale. Nosiree, it's got to be three hundred, maybe five or six hundred feet long, like the bigger Sea-Serpent reports, a true Leviathan.<br /><br />Trouble is then it is no contest and very soon no Ahab.<br /><br />Incidentally Godzilla laid an egg from which Minya hatched. Godzilla is therefore a female and probably parthenogenic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com