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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Kirk and Khan are incidental characters to each other in this movie; Khan has no beef with Kirk here, and if anything, Kirk has more motivation for 'wrath' after what happens in the briefing with Robocop.
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Exactly, I've got no reason to feel invested in the conflict between them. It's like taking two random guys off the street and making them fight, or taking Spock and Kirk and making them fight. One has deep context and meaning and drama and tension, the other is just a spectacle.
And nowadays in sci-fi, meaning and drama and tension and characters are hard to come by.
I get what they tried to do with Kirk, but even that we're just beaten over the head with. It's like they're not showing me the character development, they're just telling me what it is.
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
In all of these scenes, nothing happens with any speed whatsoever, yet the tension in all three exceeds anything a few fast edits and a non-existent CGI enterprise could muster. Ask yourself why this is. And then ask why Hollywood insists on doing business the way they do.
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Great creativity often comes out of constraints and boundaries, rather than a blank slate.
Ask why Pixar can pull off more emotion between Wall-E and Eve. They understand a blank slate with unbridled imagination does not equal creativity, listen to the commentaries on Pixar films and you'll hear them talking about not what they created, but what they cut to get down to the essence of the story. Good authors talk all the time about tearing out parts they love because they don't serve the story.