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Its wild to me. it's almost like going "Moby Dick is a story about a man trying to catch a whale, but for some reason the author wasted a bunch of time on other stuff. In our remake we're only gonna show what matters: That bit where the whale drags him under."
Or really just "we're gonna cut to the bone and show the only thing that matters: The climax".
Did this producer grow up watching vines exclusively?
"Avatar is about fighting fire lord ozai, so we've cut everything that isn't the fight"
Uh, spoilers much?
I was going to get around to reading it, honest.
Most of the book can be skipped truthfully. There's about 80 chapters of whale facts and the first of those starts with "I know all there is to know about whales, so let me set the record straight: whales are fish" and then he goes on to list things which whales are larger than.
He also stops the narrative dead in its tracks to go into an essay about the symbolic power of the color white, in case you, the reader, didn't get it.
It's nice to have a story that isn't full of all the symbolism or metaphors. Just a guy trying to catch a whale
I mean I guess it doesn't count as subtext if the author is going to the trouble to spell out what he means
Only cowards use subtext!
I know all the ways to cook whale.
Gumbo whale
Fried whale
Coconut whale…
Now imagine they didn't have a time skip fast forwarding thru all the ways to cook shrimp, but just had 80 chapters of ways to cook shrimp. And the first of those chapters being demonstrably wrong.
Chatgpt vegan outdoor cat cookbook time
Tbf, that's also how my brain works when i'm trying to concentrate.