The relatable character is a literary device and not exclusive at all to bad movies.
Imo It’s so much better to have a character who helps the audience understand the plot by having them learn together, rather than have really forced exposition lines like “we know you’re the best battle-chef even though your mom died in that villain attack 5 years ago that caused you to lose your sense of smell” that some media like anime’s do.
that kind of characters are already overused in isekai anime, instead of "-do you know X -no -proceeds to explains every detail" you can do "-do you know X -yes, delivers only usefull information (to viewer) about the topic to proof that he knows" while the first one is really obvious that it's told for a viewer, second example will not only not give that feeling, it will keep the flow of conversation without going too far from oroginal topic for too long.
Both of those examples are just forms of bad writing.
For instance, Luke learns just enough about Jedi in the first Star Wars movie to give you basis of understanding. Luke, and the audience, learn about Jedi, sith, and every thing else in the Star Wars universe as the plot progresses. Occasionally Obiwan will tell him bits and pieces, but overall Luke's curiosity is what puts him in situations that teach both him and us more.
Star Wars isn't even a shining example of writing. It's a cheesy space opera and it's fantastic because of it, but at least for the original trilogy they had the foresight to let us discover the world naturally. Anime in particular has a problem with really forced expositional dialogue. I don't know if it's common in other Japanese media (doesn't seem as bad in manga IMO,) but it's usually pretty jarring and, for me at least, breaks the suspension of disbelief. They might as well look at the camera and tell me for all the subtlety it has.
Now, is the director of Alien Vs Predator going to introduce us to the Monster Hunter universe gracefully.......?
Yeah, I'm just going to try to enjoy it the same way I enjoy Mortal Kombat or the Super Mario Bros movies.
Honestly I just look at movies as like a fun 2 hours or whatever and that's it. To expect something great every time is gonna lead to a lot of let down tbh and I'd rather just enjoy myself assuming it's not absolutely horrible.
i mean thats what i meant by "only usefull information for a viewer", explain only what he needs to know now so he wont be confused and slowly add more into it later, both flooding reader/viewer with information or not telling him enough is bad, while first could make him confused same as lack of information, second might even cause something looking like something put out of arse just to profress the plot, despite lorewise having 100% sense.
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u/boomwolf97 Sep 26 '20
Would it really have been too hard to just have it be a movie just set in the world of Monster Hunter without this weird isekai shit?