Only thing I’d add is that fight choreography and shot framing & beyond that: editing are not the charge of the same person (I know I’m preaching to the choir here!)…he might of orchestrated (very) similar moves but the delivery through final edit (“shot for shot”) is out of his hands. There’s an endless number of ways to capture the same subject matter…

apologies for my abuse of parenthesis! ‘Tis a topic I could easily sink a good pub afternoon into, not necessarily done justice to by web comments

More broadly, I’m not sure I buy the ‘everything is a remix’. Sure, people have styles, influences, and aspirations, and these manifest themselves in the things we create. But there’s a reason people don’t reinvent the wheel, and someone still had to roll one into being in the first place.

“Content is story, but also universe, the universe through which the story arc passes.”

Is everything that I love about Ridley Scott’s sci-fi. I used to have the Alien Quadrilogy* and spent hours poring over the extra features, just watching and re-watching the amount of effort that went into, as you say, creating that universe. Same for Bladerunner… (and perhaps, tangentially, Spielberg’s efforts in Minority Report).

It’s also why I have a soft spot for Pitch Black / Dark Fury / Chronicles of Riddick (DC) too; the courage of defining a universe for your characters (and many others) to exist in is something that I have to sit back and admire, if done properly at least.

Good words Mr Light, as per.

JW.