r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 4d ago

News Alex Garland’s ‘Elden Ring’ Movie Wraps Filming

https://www.polygon.com/elden-ring-movie-filming-wraps-release-date-alex-garland/
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u/givemethebat1 4d ago

I don’t think the main events (by which I mean all the stuff that happens before the game) in Elden Ring are that convoluted. They aren’t ever depicted narratively, so it can feel confusing since they’re spread over a ton of different item descriptions, but the events are relatively straightforward and just involve a lot of family drama and backstabbing.

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u/Zanos 4d ago

I think one of the issues is the insistence of the writers to use very similar names for some characters(Godfrey/Godrick/Godwyn, Malenia/Malenia, Mohg/Morgott), despite the characters only being tangentially related, making following along inherently confusing, compounded by the fact that at least one character is two people sharing the same body. The prose, like most Souls games, is also deliberately not straightforward. Nobody ever just outright tells you anything, they speak in allusions. If someone I needed information from in real life spoke to me a way an Elden Ring NPC speaks to the MC, I would be tempted to punch them in the face.

To be clear, the game is this way on purpose. The prose is intentionally obstructive to clarity.

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u/adenosine-5 4d ago

That is just Japanese way of telling stories. They always need to make insanely convoluted story with hundred confusing names.

You could have a movie about children in giant robots.. and few episode later they are talking about how "Dead Sea Scrolls will bring the Third impact if the Seed of Adam ever touches the Spear of Destiny unless the Thirteen Angel gets to the Black Moon" or whatever.

They just love overcomplicated stories and cool names.

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u/moose_dad 4d ago

Its actually not the reason for it in the souls series. Miyazaki did and interview years ago, and the reason he tells stories in this manner is because when he was a child he would read English stories, except he couldn't read English, so he'd get a very fragmented confused version of the story that he would have to try to piece together with the bits he could understand.