And what you see is not what you get! Movies and tvshows rarely take the time to show you all the tropes, and then go “but actually, it’s a lot more complicated than that!”.
Like, in the making money adaptation, we never see reacher gilt being a deliberate construction of ‘evil business man’ by the man himself. It gets played pretty straight.
Or, same movie, we see otto, looking like a spirit halloween vampire. Kinda weird, but okay. But we dont see the bit from Thud!, where vimes realises that that too is a very purposeful playing into harmless stereotypes.
Things like that means taking time, in a genre story, to built up expecations and then change things, while still being sincere.
There’s no ironic fourth wall break, “well that just happened”, i cant believe we have to fight an evil wizard on top of a tower, thats such a clichee", the subversion is that the evil wizard is a kid with a shitty dad.
Pretty simple to me, he’s an author full of paradoxes
Visually, the universe is incredibly goofy in appearance (and expensive to CGI) while feeling very alive and real
This is illuminated by prose that breaks the fourth wall when it is not deeply grounded and meaningful.
Personally the D&D movie got kinda close, even closer with better production.
And what you see is not what you get! Movies and tvshows rarely take the time to show you all the tropes, and then go “but actually, it’s a lot more complicated than that!”.
Like, in the making money adaptation, we never see reacher gilt being a deliberate construction of ‘evil business man’ by the man himself. It gets played pretty straight. Or, same movie, we see otto, looking like a spirit halloween vampire. Kinda weird, but okay. But we dont see the bit from Thud!, where vimes realises that that too is a very purposeful playing into harmless stereotypes.
Things like that means taking time, in a genre story, to built up expecations and then change things, while still being sincere. There’s no ironic fourth wall break, “well that just happened”, i cant believe we have to fight an evil wizard on top of a tower, thats such a clichee", the subversion is that the evil wizard is a kid with a shitty dad.