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oddly enough that site had my choices for breen and grigori spot on, lol
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Heres the first couple of minutes of the script, tell me what you think...
SCREEN BLACK
FREEMAN (VO)
In the grand scheme of things, I often ask myself, how did I live my life, and what kind of changes did I make to the world.
(beat)
Did I bring light or darkness to the world? Was my time on this world productive?
(beat)
In January 2007, I stopped asking, because i knew that no-one had the answer…
Interference engulfs the image, before finally dying and the SCREEN GOES BLACK. With MUSIC, a single TITLE appears, full across the blackness...
HALF LIFE
PRESENTATION CREDITS appear, then FADE…
Out of BLACK... SHOCK CUT TO:
INT MONORAIL, TIMELESS
GORDON FREEMAN, sitting alone at the back of the transport system in his hazard suit, something seems not right, like GORDON is miles away, far detached from the dirty, rickety, unsafe transport monorail. The camera pushes forward slowly. Superimposed in bottom centre is the date and time…
03/01/2007
08:47
TRANSIT SYSTEM PA
Good morning, and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System. This automated train is provided for the security and convenience of the Black Mesa Research Facility personnel. The time is eight-forty seven A.M... Current outside temperature is ninety three degrees with an estimated high of one hundred and five. The Black Mesa compound is maintained at a pleasant sixty-eight degrees at all times. This train is inbound from Level Three dormitories to Sector C Test Labs and Control Facilities. If your intended destination is a high security area beyond Sector C, you will need to return to the Central Transit hub in Area Nine and board a high security train. If you have not yet submitted your identity to the retinal clearance system, you must report to Black Mesa personnel for processing before you will be permitted into the high security branch of the transit system. Due to the high toxicity of material routinely handled in the Black Mesa compound, no smoking, eating, or drinking are permitted within the Black Mesa Transit System. Please keep you limbs inside the train at all times. Do not attempt to open the doors until the train has come to a complete halt at the station platform. In the event of an emergency, passengers are to remain seated and await further instruction. If it is necessary to exit the train, disabled personnel should be evacuated first. Please, stay away from electrified rails, and proceed to an emergency station until assistance arrives. A reminder that the Black Mesa Hazard Course decathlon will commence this evening at 1900 hours in the Level Three facility. The semi-finals for high security personnel will be announced in a separate secure access transmission. Remember, more lives than your own may depend on your fitness. Do you have a friend or relative who make a valuable addition to the Black Mesa team? Immediate openings are available in the areas of "Materials Handling" and "Low Clearance Security." Please contact Black Mesa personnel for further information. If you have an associate with a background in the areas of "Theoretical Physics," "Biotechnology," or other high-tech disciplines, please contact our civilian recruitment division. The Black Mesa Research Facility is an equal-opportunity employer. A reminder to all Black Mesa personnel: Regular radiation and biohazard screenings are a requirement of continued employment in the Black Mesa Research Facility. Missing a scheduled urinalysis or radiation check-up is grounds for immediate termination. If you feel you have been exposed to radioactive or other hazardous materials in the course of your duties, contact your radiation safety officer immediately. Work safe, work smart. Your future depends on it. Now arriving at Sector C Test Labs and Control Facilities. Please stand back from the automated door and wait for the security officer to verify your identity. Before exiting the train, be sure to check your area for personal belongings. Thank you, and have a very safe and productive day.
FREEMAN stands up and walks away, the camera pauses for a second.
INT TEST LAB C BLAST DOORS, TIMELESS
A HUGE DARK VAULT CARVED OUT OF ROCK… in the foreground lays a steel runway leading towards a huge set of blast doors. This is BLACK MESA. A youthful, almost geeky looking security guard runs over to GORDON, this is BARNEY CALHOUN. He seems rather trodden down in his work, but very welcome to see Gordon.
BARNEY
Morning Mr. Freeman looks like your running late again, about that drink I owe you…
The both of them walk towards the blast doors, we follow them from behind.
Half of Freeman’s face in the foreground, Barney leaning against the wall in the background
BARNEY
Mind your hand and elbows.
FREEMAN gives BARNEY a really cynical look. BARNEY chuckels to himself. BARNEY leans against the rock wall, lighting a cigarette. He breathes out the smoke deeply. we can hear the blast doors, they have obviously stopped.
BARNEY
Have a good day Gordon...
SCREEN BLACK
FREEMAN (VO)
In the grand scheme of things, I often ask myself, how did I live my life, and what kind of changes did I make to the world.
(beat)
Did I bring light or darkness to the world? Was my time on this world productive?
(beat)
In January 2007, I stopped asking, because i knew that no-one had the answer…
Interference engulfs the image, before finally dying and the SCREEN GOES BLACK. With MUSIC, a single TITLE appears, full across the blackness...
HALF LIFE
PRESENTATION CREDITS appear, then FADE…
Out of BLACK... SHOCK CUT TO:
INT MONORAIL, TIMELESS
GORDON FREEMAN, sitting alone at the back of the transport system in his hazard suit, something seems not right, like GORDON is miles away, far detached from the dirty, rickety, unsafe transport monorail. The camera pushes forward slowly. Superimposed in bottom centre is the date and time…
03/01/2007
08:47
TRANSIT SYSTEM PA
Good morning, and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System. This automated train is provided for the security and convenience of the Black Mesa Research Facility personnel. The time is eight-forty seven A.M... Current outside temperature is ninety three degrees with an estimated high of one hundred and five. The Black Mesa compound is maintained at a pleasant sixty-eight degrees at all times. This train is inbound from Level Three dormitories to Sector C Test Labs and Control Facilities. If your intended destination is a high security area beyond Sector C, you will need to return to the Central Transit hub in Area Nine and board a high security train. If you have not yet submitted your identity to the retinal clearance system, you must report to Black Mesa personnel for processing before you will be permitted into the high security branch of the transit system. Due to the high toxicity of material routinely handled in the Black Mesa compound, no smoking, eating, or drinking are permitted within the Black Mesa Transit System. Please keep you limbs inside the train at all times. Do not attempt to open the doors until the train has come to a complete halt at the station platform. In the event of an emergency, passengers are to remain seated and await further instruction. If it is necessary to exit the train, disabled personnel should be evacuated first. Please, stay away from electrified rails, and proceed to an emergency station until assistance arrives. A reminder that the Black Mesa Hazard Course decathlon will commence this evening at 1900 hours in the Level Three facility. The semi-finals for high security personnel will be announced in a separate secure access transmission. Remember, more lives than your own may depend on your fitness. Do you have a friend or relative who make a valuable addition to the Black Mesa team? Immediate openings are available in the areas of "Materials Handling" and "Low Clearance Security." Please contact Black Mesa personnel for further information. If you have an associate with a background in the areas of "Theoretical Physics," "Biotechnology," or other high-tech disciplines, please contact our civilian recruitment division. The Black Mesa Research Facility is an equal-opportunity employer. A reminder to all Black Mesa personnel: Regular radiation and biohazard screenings are a requirement of continued employment in the Black Mesa Research Facility. Missing a scheduled urinalysis or radiation check-up is grounds for immediate termination. If you feel you have been exposed to radioactive or other hazardous materials in the course of your duties, contact your radiation safety officer immediately. Work safe, work smart. Your future depends on it. Now arriving at Sector C Test Labs and Control Facilities. Please stand back from the automated door and wait for the security officer to verify your identity. Before exiting the train, be sure to check your area for personal belongings. Thank you, and have a very safe and productive day.
FREEMAN stands up and walks away, the camera pauses for a second.
INT TEST LAB C BLAST DOORS, TIMELESS
A HUGE DARK VAULT CARVED OUT OF ROCK… in the foreground lays a steel runway leading towards a huge set of blast doors. This is BLACK MESA. A youthful, almost geeky looking security guard runs over to GORDON, this is BARNEY CALHOUN. He seems rather trodden down in his work, but very welcome to see Gordon.
BARNEY
Morning Mr. Freeman looks like your running late again, about that drink I owe you…
The both of them walk towards the blast doors, we follow them from behind.
Half of Freeman’s face in the foreground, Barney leaning against the wall in the background
BARNEY
Mind your hand and elbows.
FREEMAN gives BARNEY a really cynical look. BARNEY chuckels to himself. BARNEY leans against the rock wall, lighting a cigarette. He breathes out the smoke deeply. we can hear the blast doors, they have obviously stopped.
BARNEY
Have a good day Gordon...
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Its just a sneek peek, tell me what you think.
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It seems to be a complete copy of the game....no offence. I think perhaps it would be nice to start Gordon with his family or something (the baby picture in his locker) I think a word for word adaptation of the game is a bad idea. Aslong as you don't "do a Tomb Raider" and change it for the worse. You have taken on an almost impossible task.
Also, change this line:
It doesn't seem to have much cohesion. What relevence does running late have to drinking?
Also, change this line:
It doesn't seem to have much cohesion. What relevence does running late have to drinking?
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Well, for starters I'm not so sure the voice over at the beginning really works. If it truely is Gordon at the beginning, doesn't that make his encounters in the Black Mesa Research Facility less enticing for the viewer (because they know he will obviously make it out alive)? This is one of the reasons why I thought that the G-Man would have been a better choice for the intro speech. In the games whenever he speaks, there's this aura of mystery and confusion in his words. He utters riddles, and small clues that (while not very revealing) still draw your attention. The G-Man is considered to be the glue that holds the events in Black Mesa together, which would make his intro all the more ominous/auspicious.
As Reginald pointed out, the rest seems to be a complete copy of the game. Considering that this is going to be the only "quiet" moment the viewers will get to see Barney and Gordon on screen together, why not add more dialogue to show their friendship. They are afterall supposed to be best buddies. Why not have Barney go on his break, and walk with Gordon to his HEV suit? It would give them a chance to bond.
You also may have to shorten up the PA announceement. It sounds like there's too much additional (useless) information that isn't needed in a movie that should be about 2 hours in length.
Sorry man, I'm just picking you apart.
As Reginald pointed out, the rest seems to be a complete copy of the game. Considering that this is going to be the only "quiet" moment the viewers will get to see Barney and Gordon on screen together, why not add more dialogue to show their friendship. They are afterall supposed to be best buddies. Why not have Barney go on his break, and walk with Gordon to his HEV suit? It would give them a chance to bond.
You also may have to shorten up the PA announceement. It sounds like there's too much additional (useless) information that isn't needed in a movie that should be about 2 hours in length.
Sorry man, I'm just picking you apart.
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ok, just to clear something up...
The script as a whole will be dofferent to the game, the opening got me because i displayed my original script on a previous site. I'd originally written a way different opening, still on the tram. But i got chastised for taking it in a different direction to the games, But if people would like to see something different then im sure i could dig out the old opening. The original script contained Barney and Freeman talking on the tram, I was promptly hated by alot of fanboys for letting gordon talk.
The beer reamark is a subtle reference to the games, in hindsight your right. It does suck, Ill look at that one.
Barney does keep cropping up in the story, occasionally helping gordon out, even saving his life at one point.
Carry on posting, ill rewrite the opening. Im going away for a couple of days but i should be back by monday...
The script as a whole will be dofferent to the game, the opening got me because i displayed my original script on a previous site. I'd originally written a way different opening, still on the tram. But i got chastised for taking it in a different direction to the games, But if people would like to see something different then im sure i could dig out the old opening. The original script contained Barney and Freeman talking on the tram, I was promptly hated by alot of fanboys for letting gordon talk.
The beer reamark is a subtle reference to the games, in hindsight your right. It does suck, Ill look at that one.
Barney does keep cropping up in the story, occasionally helping gordon out, even saving his life at one point.
Carry on posting, ill rewrite the opening. Im going away for a couple of days but i should be back by monday...
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I think having background info on Gordon is a very bad idea. It HAS to start like the game, that mystery and unknowing of what's happening is an awesome intro. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY INTEGRAL TO THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE MOVIE imo.Reginald said:
You'll completely destroy that initial shock/awe if you have some flimsy scene where he's with his family.
IMO the game got the intro perfect, and as such a film adaption for the intro can virtually copy the game exactly.
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Mr-Fusion said:
That is the point where the game/film barrier goes wrong. The fanboys will complain if they just copy the game, but they will complain if they go too far from it. When I think about it, yes, using Gordon's family would be an utter shite idea. But if we just copy the intro from the game, surely we are paying to watch the game with better graphics and less interactivity?
I am sure that it would be a good plan to start the film on some sort or tram, train or cart ride though.
Actually, try this on for size. It opens on a San Francisco tram, and then switches to various cities around the world with a train in each shot or something with G-man talking over the top.... I don't know, just an idea to incorporate trains and still keep far enough away from the game to make it unique.
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No, that's where the movie executive fatcat barrier goes wrong. Read what i've said before. I think the intro can be perfectly adapted for film, i think the rest of the film has to be changed significantly. I'm 100% willing to change things....except the start! You know movie executives wanted The Two Towers to start off with a 5 minute recap of Fellowship of the Ring? Peter Jackson fought nail and tooth to have action pick up where it left off. His decision, imo was far better than getting a boring re-introduction to the characters we already know.
I know lots of films start off with character introduction, their family, their job etc but i find that boring. Films like Unbreakable, (which ironically starts with Bruce Willis on a train) is a much more interesting way to begin. I hate being fed character descriptions on a platter, through boring scenes designed for that sole purpose. For developing Gordons character, yes we're going to create some personality for the film despite him having none in the game i don't want flashbacks to his regular life, or any scene involving his regular life. Why not have simple dialogue when he gets off the train "How's that little niece of yours"? ( I don't want Gordon to be married, his sexual frustration and inner lonelyness creates an interesting geek/hardcore hybrid ready to unleash a torrent of fury onto the invading aliens ok cough)
In the end I'M not making this film, i'm just talking like i am I guess we're all just throwing ideas around, but i'd trust a good adaption of the film in the hands of a fan of the game more than clueless script-writer and director.
I know lots of films start off with character introduction, their family, their job etc but i find that boring. Films like Unbreakable, (which ironically starts with Bruce Willis on a train) is a much more interesting way to begin. I hate being fed character descriptions on a platter, through boring scenes designed for that sole purpose. For developing Gordons character, yes we're going to create some personality for the film despite him having none in the game i don't want flashbacks to his regular life, or any scene involving his regular life. Why not have simple dialogue when he gets off the train "How's that little niece of yours"? ( I don't want Gordon to be married, his sexual frustration and inner lonelyness creates an interesting geek/hardcore hybrid ready to unleash a torrent of fury onto the invading aliens ok cough)
In the end I'M not making this film, i'm just talking like i am
I guess we're all just throwing ideas around, but i'd trust a good adaption of the film in the hands of a fan of the game more than clueless script-writer and director.
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Before you know it this film will be set in Southern Africa and involve an outbreak of a new disease that zombifies people. Gordon Freesmith (name has been changed due to culturally offensive reasons) is sent in, with nothing but a flamethrower to clean up the mess...little does he know the bitch he's ****ing is one of the infected!!
Ohh on that note, who ever saw that Wing Commander film...My god in heaven....
Ohh on that note, who ever saw that Wing Commander film...My god in heaven....
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Those guys who say they dont want a hl movie with gordon.....whats your frickin problem with seeing gordon freeman onscreen???? just because he is in a movie does not mean we have to see the film in FPS view, a movie is not designed to immerse us in like a game...i personally would love to see gordon on screeen...talking ...with a personality thats fits with Valve's creation. I am not going to the movies to be immersed...tell me one movie that makes you feel like your are participating??? movies do not do that, they are a different medium. Games are meant to be "experienced" to feel like you are there, movies are not, you are nothing but a spectator to the action, when you watch a movie. You guys...get your stories straight and stop giving stupid, moronic ideas that having Gordon in a movie will lose immersiveness....."NO Sh#t" ...Its a MOVIE pea brains!!!!!!
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Wow, angry man. I think when people talk about the immersiveness, they're saying that to see Gordon and have him speak in a movie would ruin the immersiveness in the game, as you'd effectively be seeing and hearing 'yourself'.
Peabrain.
Peabrain.
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Mr-Fusion said:No, that's where the movie executive fatcat barrier goes wrong. Read what i've said before. I think the intro can be perfectly adapted for film, i think the rest of the film has to be changed significantly. I'm 100% willing to change things....except the start! You know movie executives wanted The Two Towers to start off with a 5 minute recap of Fellowship of the Ring? Peter Jackson fought nail and tooth to have action pick up where it left off. His decision, imo was far better than getting a boring re-introduction to the characters we already know.
(Long rantings cut to make quote shorter)
In the end I'M not making this film, i'm just talking like i am
I agree with you entirely. I am just thinking of differnet possibilities. How far would you say the actual script follows the game. I'd say up until the Resonance Cascade itself. Then, it kind of goes differently.
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"Wow, angry man. I think when people talk about the immersiveness, they're saying that to see Gordon and have him speak in a movie would ruin the immersiveness in the game, as you'd effectively be seeing and hearing 'yourself'.
Peabrain."
that is a stupid thought, a game is meant to be immersed, watching gordon onscreen will not lose immersiveness because if gordon has a specific personality in the movie!!!....and when YOU play the game YOu are gordon, no matter what personality of gordon you saw in the movie, in the game you still play gordon as YOU right? Are you asking to have a movie where gordon is portrayed the way you see him? if that is the case, how many versions of gordon will there be? thats why the movie gordon would stand alone, from those perceptions created from all he players playing in his shoe. So there should be no conflict of immersiveness...i dont get it, you guys should be begging to see gordon onscreen, to see a game, pixels and objects come to life in a motion picture movie.
I just think that most gamers today are too spoilt. they are spoilt teenage kids who dont know what they want....
I know what i want: to experience the halflife story a different way....a Cinema movie version of Gordons tale, done correctly. That will not hinder my "experience" when playing him in the game. It like saying: seeing the character of Aragorn on screen, watchin ghim talk, and show his personality, takes away from the immersiveness of playing him in the game!!!!!you get my point??
Peabrain."
that is a stupid thought, a game is meant to be immersed, watching gordon onscreen will not lose immersiveness because if gordon has a specific personality in the movie!!!....and when YOU play the game YOu are gordon, no matter what personality of gordon you saw in the movie, in the game you still play gordon as YOU right? Are you asking to have a movie where gordon is portrayed the way you see him? if that is the case, how many versions of gordon will there be? thats why the movie gordon would stand alone, from those perceptions created from all he players playing in his shoe. So there should be no conflict of immersiveness...i dont get it, you guys should be begging to see gordon onscreen, to see a game, pixels and objects come to life in a motion picture movie.
I just think that most gamers today are too spoilt. they are spoilt teenage kids who dont know what they want....
I know what i want: to experience the halflife story a different way....a Cinema movie version of Gordons tale, done correctly. That will not hinder my "experience" when playing him in the game. It like saying: seeing the character of Aragorn on screen, watchin ghim talk, and show his personality, takes away from the immersiveness of playing him in the game!!!!!you get my point??
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Just got back from a film school interview at the other end of the country...
Wow, everyone is bringing up great points, Im glad people are being hounest.
I have had a couple of very angry emails claiming that ill probobly demonize the property and that unless i back down, They'll pay the administrators to remove me from the site.
Personally, i cant really see that happening, and for all i care, they can go onto some other forum, because i refuses to listen to people who tell me that my writing sucks without giving any advice.
I dont mind people telling me it sucks, so long as i get advice...
thanks for the input.
Wow, everyone is bringing up great points, Im glad people are being hounest.
I have had a couple of very angry emails claiming that ill probobly demonize the property and that unless i back down, They'll pay the administrators to remove me from the site.
Personally, i cant really see that happening, and for all i care, they can go onto some other forum, because i refuses to listen to people who tell me that my writing sucks without giving any advice.
I dont mind people telling me it sucks, so long as i get advice...
thanks for the input.
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People have already echoed my feelings (notably Lavaisse and CrazyHarij, at the start of this thread) on making a film, or series of films, out of an HL game, or the entire HL series. Some things are just not made to be turned into films eventually. No offence to anyone who's been trying.
As has been already mentioned, though, I don't think there'd be a great deal wrong with trying to make a movie that worked like a sort of expansion-pack, through a different medium (i.e. film, not game). There's plenty of room for experimentation in the gap between the HL1 and HL2. But even that would have to be the best it could possibly be, for me to like it. Art, not mindless bollocks. I'd rather not have to see some Independence Day-type thing based on the 7 Hour War.
As has been already mentioned, though, I don't think there'd be a great deal wrong with trying to make a movie that worked like a sort of expansion-pack, through a different medium (i.e. film, not game). There's plenty of room for experimentation in the gap between the HL1 and HL2. But even that would have to be the best it could possibly be, for me to like it. Art, not mindless bollocks. I'd rather not have to see some Independence Day-type thing based on the 7 Hour War.
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Trust me, this will work, it wont be mindless bollocks.
ive got rid off the beer remark, ill fir it in somewhere later...
ive got rid off the beer remark, ill fir it in somewhere later...
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TJC Martin said:
haha, who are the morons emailing you that crap?
We want names, names I tell you !!!!
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lol, the email was from someone called john doe.
Im English so it took me a few minutes to realise that john doe is obviously a psydonem, ill root through my deleted bin and try to find an email...
Im English so it took me a few minutes to realise that john doe is obviously a psydonem, ill root through my deleted bin and try to find an email...
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In a HL film, I don't want Gordon Freeman to feature, if he was played by an actor it would be crap and ruin everything.
Rather they could do HL movie as someone else's story, set in the HL universe.
But I'm skeptical a HL movie could be done without being awful and...well Hollywood style.
Valve wouldn't allow a movie to be made if it wasn't great though, I expect.
Rather they could do HL movie as someone else's story, set in the HL universe.
But I'm skeptical a HL movie could be done without being awful and...well Hollywood style.
Valve wouldn't allow a movie to be made if it wasn't great though, I expect.
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Are you people saying that a hl movie without gordon is better just to piss some people off? i dont understand your stupid logic!!!! how will seeing gordon on screen ruin your halflife experience----explain to me in detail how this would be....if you can!!!!to see if your argument holds water or if you guys just like to argue for the sake of it!! Is it because you are afraid that hollywiid might destroy the film like any other game based movie? Well remember one thing: Valve would not let that happen, and i bet that if valve had the money and resources to do so, they would film it themselves, i think they mentioned that once....anyway as long as Valve is holing the keys to the rights to one of the best scifi stories ever, i am sure they will find a director and producer they can trust to stay faithful to the HL universe without turning it into hollywood no-brainer crap.
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I don't think you appreciate the subtleties of the games.
You don't get how important the sense that you 'are' Gordon is crucial to the immersiveness. Seeing him act and talk in ways that are are different to your own behaviour could reduce how much you can really feel you 'are' him in the game. It wouldn't feel like you're some anonymous guy who could easily be you, you'd feel like you're controlling a well defined, fully-formed character, making it less feasible to impose your own identity onto the situation you're playing in...
It's a fairly straightforward concept, so there's no 'detail' to go into, unless you're talking about the psychological principles involved...
You don't get how important the sense that you 'are' Gordon is crucial to the immersiveness. Seeing him act and talk in ways that are are different to your own behaviour could reduce how much you can really feel you 'are' him in the game. It wouldn't feel like you're some anonymous guy who could easily be you, you'd feel like you're controlling a well defined, fully-formed character, making it less feasible to impose your own identity onto the situation you're playing in...
It's a fairly straightforward concept, so there's no 'detail' to go into, unless you're talking about the psychological principles involved...
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TJC Martin said:
Which school?I'm planning on going to the states for my film schooling. Although apparently the Brighton film school is wondeful.
Sorry, this is becoming off-topic. Do you have MSN?
For the beer line: At some point in the film when Gordon and Barney are working together, have Barney say: "Gordon, if we get out of this alive, I'll buy you a beer." Then have him eaten by something....or not.
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lol, i couldnt kill barney off, hes too lovable, ill email you about the film school thing...
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Woot Feel Good Inc!!!
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Here I got a scipt ps: I was listing to Rehash by Gorriliaz
Setting: Black Mesa Research Facility...
It fades in real slow and then it says the subject:freeman age:32 etc,
Gordon looks at his clock and starts muttering about his paycheck.
It goes through the facility and stuff. Gordon is in the little trolly sweating now.
Gordon: C'mon C'mon... Almost there...
It comes to a halt at its destination Barneys in a chair sleeping...
Gordon: HEY BARNEY WAKE UP!
Barney: GAH! I told you not to wake me up sheesh!
Gordon: That was two weeks ago.
Barney gets up and unlocks the door.
Barney: If this whacko expiriment works I'll buy you a drink...
Gordon: Last time you said that the expirment worked and you gave me half a bagel.
Barney: Not true.
Barney types in the in the code and etc.
Barney: Well go...
Gordon: Goes in and the locking thing unlocks and he walks in.
Scientest: Hey you were supposed to be in the Anomyous Materials Lab 20 miniutes ago?!
Gordon looks at him and stares at him for a little and runs away.
Gordon gets to the HEV case.
Gordon: Lets get you on and rolling!
Gordon goes to a stall and knocks on the door.
Man In Stall: Ahem...
Gordon looks at his watch and wide eyed, he waits a little while and frowns.
The man comes out and glares at him and straigtens his tie.
Gordon rushs in and comes out with the sweet HEV.
Gordon: Runs and gets to the airlock...
Im tired I'm going to bed 2morow I will right some more...
Setting: Black Mesa Research Facility...
It fades in real slow and then it says the subject:freeman age:32 etc,
Gordon looks at his clock and starts muttering about his paycheck.
It goes through the facility and stuff. Gordon is in the little trolly sweating now.
Gordon: C'mon C'mon... Almost there...
It comes to a halt at its destination Barneys in a chair sleeping...
Gordon: HEY BARNEY WAKE UP!
Barney: GAH! I told you not to wake me up sheesh!
Gordon: That was two weeks ago.
Barney gets up and unlocks the door.
Barney: If this whacko expiriment works I'll buy you a drink...
Gordon: Last time you said that the expirment worked and you gave me half a bagel.
Barney: Not true.
Barney types in the in the code and etc.
Barney: Well go...
Gordon: Goes in and the locking thing unlocks and he walks in.
Scientest: Hey you were supposed to be in the Anomyous Materials Lab 20 miniutes ago?!
Gordon looks at him and stares at him for a little and runs away.
Gordon gets to the HEV case.
Gordon: Lets get you on and rolling!
Gordon goes to a stall and knocks on the door.
Man In Stall: Ahem...
Gordon looks at his watch and wide eyed, he waits a little while and frowns.
The man comes out and glares at him and straigtens his tie.
Gordon rushs in and comes out with the sweet HEV.
Gordon: Runs and gets to the airlock...
Im tired I'm going to bed 2morow I will right some more...
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Seeing him act and talk in ways that are are different to your own behaviour could reduce how much you can really feel you 'are' him in the game.
"do you really see yourself walking in the game? tell me one instance in the game that shows your personality, can you talk as gordon in your own style, this is stupid"
It wouldn't feel like you're some anonymous guy who could easily be you, you'd feel like you're controlling a well defined, fully-formed character, making it less feasible to impose your own identity onto the situation you're playing in...
"Ahhh...he is a fully created character, defined by Valve, he is not just some anonymous guy!!! He has a face!!! did you know that? if you wanted absoloute anonymity for gordon when playing the game, immersed into the life of gordon....Why the hell did Valve create a face to gordon? if they wanted the character to be absolutely gordon they would not have given him a face....he was created with a backround.....MIT graduate, are you going to hate the game now because his backround doesnt match yours? and therefore you cant feel like your playing as gordon because your backround is maybe: a high school student? a Mcdonalds employee? and department store clerk? Come on....smell the ROSES!!!!! the game immerses you, yeah!! thats why i love it, but that does not justify not having gordon onscreen!!! he does have his own personlaity, he does have his own name: is your name Gordon Freeman????? he has his own distinct look, his own face!!!
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Seeing him act and talk in ways that are are different to your own behaviour could reduce how much you can really feel you 'are' him in the game.
"do you really see yourself walking in the game? tell me one instance in the game that shows your personality, can you talk as gordon in your own style, this is stupid"
It wouldn't feel like you're some anonymous guy who could easily be you, you'd feel like you're controlling a well defined, fully-formed character, making it less feasible to impose your own identity onto the situation you're playing in...
"Ahhh...he is a fully created character, defined by Valve, he is not just some anonymous guy!!! He has a face!!! did you know that? if you wanted absoloute anonymity for gordon when playing the game, immersed into the life of gordon....Why the hell did Valve create a face to gordon? if they wanted the character to be absolutely gordon they would not have given him a face....he was created with a backround.....MIT graduate, are you going to hate the game now because his backround doesnt match yours? and therefore you cant feel like your playing as gordon because your backround is maybe: a high school student? a Mcdonalds employee? and department store clerk? Come on....smell the ROSES!!!!! the game immerses you, yeah!! thats why i love it, but that does not justify not having gordon onscreen!!! he does have his own personlaity, he does have his own name: is your name Gordon Freeman????? he has his own distinct look, his own face!!!
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remember: You are experiencing Gordon's Story......NOt your own...Gordon's!!!
Its been said by Vavle many times, he is his own person and he is.....REAL
Its been said by Vavle many times, he is his own person and he is.....REAL
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I know that gordon freeman is not my character to play with, i know that he is his own seperate entity in the game.
Not wanting to sound rude or troll like or anything but jeez, give me a chance. I havent even finished the script yet and people are allready sending me abusive emails about how im demonzing the property, and people making open messages in the forum about how im taking libirties with gordon's charcter.
No offence, but give me a chance, jeez!
Not wanting to sound rude or troll like or anything but jeez, give me a chance. I havent even finished the script yet and people are allready sending me abusive emails about how im demonzing the property, and people making open messages in the forum about how im taking libirties with gordon's charcter.
No offence, but give me a chance, jeez!
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True, give the guy a chance instead of ripping the shit out of him, im liking the cast, Ray Romano would make a brilliant barney lol, as for the idiot who said Arnold as Gordon, get real, gordon isnt huge and muscular and doesnt walk around with tonk guns without taking damage. Anyway, keep up with the good work Martin.
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Wow,
Thanks Murray...
Besides, its not like im trying to turn it into a sitcom
Hmm, a HL sitcom, could work actually...
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Gman- do not fear boys, for i have a cunning plan
(barney looks up exhasperated)
Barney- G, you wouldnt know a subtle plan if it painted itself purple, jumped on a harpsichord and started singing "subtle plans are here again"
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Hmmm, Nah. maybe not...
Thanks Murray...
Besides, its not like im trying to turn it into a sitcom
Hmm, a HL sitcom, could work actually...
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Gman- do not fear boys, for i have a cunning plan
(barney looks up exhasperated)
Barney- G, you wouldnt know a subtle plan if it painted itself purple, jumped on a harpsichord and started singing "subtle plans are here again"
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Hmmm, Nah. maybe not...
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scarecrow, why did you feel it appropriate to quote my profile information, exactly?
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that was an accident
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TJC Martin said:
It's fair enough, I know I posted much earlier on in the thread with a fairly negative message, but that was more aimed at the way all games have been translated to film thus far - not necessarily at you and your attempt. I did like the cast, and I was surprised hom much I liked the idea of Edward Norton as Gordon - I just don't think Williams would be an appropriate Kliener (I think that guy from Star Trek: Voyager would be perfect).
In all seriousness, bad initial ideas about the soundtrack and fears over how the "experience" of HL could be changed all aside, I wish you good luck. After all, if a really bad film were to be made I could just simply ignore it
but whatever, don't try to be too funny, don't try to be too cool, be sophisticated, be brutal and aim for something the whole community could be proud of. Like I say, if you were allowed to make this film, it would be a massive responsibility. Later!
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scarecrow1 said:
Hmm? Very strange mistake to make, but okay.
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