Saturday, 6 February 2021

In Lulach

The Game Of Empire, CHAPTER THIRTEEN.

Two possible cinematic presentations of human beings interacting with Cynthians: 

live action plus CGI;
animation.
 
The Cynthian town of Lulach is such a quaint, picturesque setting:
 
some buildings under large trees;
others among their branches;
squirrel-like Cynthians leaping between branches;
narrow, twisting, turf streets;
a rambling timber riverside inn with stables for horses and changtus -
 
- that it seems to me to lend itself to cartoon treatment. It as if Diana and her companions have wandered from a realistic environment into a cartoonish one.
 
There are two styles of comic strips: realistic and cartoonish. I used to wonder why the two kinds of characters never met. In fact, imaginative script writers and artists have sometimes found clever ways to combine them.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

This part of THE GAME OF EMPIRE might have been carried over by Anderson from the novella which was all he had originally planned to write.

Ad astra! Sean