Yeah! I was wondering why they let this one in, it absolutely was a Disney movie. I think it is MUCH better than Titan AE, as a simple comparison, and would put it low in my A-tier of Disney animated movies (it's certainly not S-tier).
haven't seen Intentionally Blank in a year now, it is good to be back i should start reading last chapter of Stormlight, it has already been checked out by everyone here i suppose P.S. Guys, type in the comments your region or country that has a Brandon's translation in its native language Scandinavians here, btw
Wait, Treasure Planet is Disney too. It was the passion project of the guys responsible for most of the Disney Renaissance movies that they finally got to make, they'd been campaigning to get to do it for years, if I remember correctly.
Pratchett was a big part of me getting back into reading, multiple times. I'd read a few Discworld books when I was younger, and my college roommate recommended a few more when I decided to get back into reading for pleasure over a spring break trip with my family. I later got back into them again when I was in the Peace Corps and found a few on the shelf of the library of our office lounge. Given how many there are, and how daunting that can seem, I definitely think picking a sub-series is the best way to start, rather than publication order, just to get it into a more manageable chunk.
Not into Legos but... a set of Szeth runing along the walls of a corridor while leaving guards killed behind would be incredible... My favorite prologue of all time in Lego form. So everytime we look at it we can go like: "Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king." 🤣
@danielkirienko1701 What an incredibly important correction. Thanks for the great addition to the point. 👍 (Not to mention you ALSO spelled it wrong. Its Artisanal)
just on the off chance that you’ll see this! i’ve watched all of your lectures and the way you explain the craft of writing makes it so accessible! here’s the question: how do you balance description in prose? for example, if you have a room, and people in the room, how do you know how much to describe what you can “see” in the room, without overloading the reader, but still creating a picture in their mind. how much is too much description, basically. and if the answer is just “be good at writing” then… lie to me.
Not Brandon, but a fellow writer wanting to help! The first thing is probably not what you want to hear but: practice. You'll start to develop a sense of what's important and what isn't as you write. Aside from that, if you want to describe a room, make a list for yourself of everything that's in the room. Then cut that list down to three to four things of what the character would consider important. For instance, if a character goes to a party, are they going to look for the food table first? Or look for a friend? Or are they introverted and looking for the nearest corner to hide in? Ground settings in the character's perspective and what they consider important. Secondly, start with the overall vibes of the setting and how it makes a character feel. Is it a safe place? Dangerous? Neutral? Then introduce the various details that either challenge that initial feel, or reaffirm it. Doing this can also help the pacing since you're not frontloading the details all at once. Start small and as the character perceives more, you can introduce more details. Especially details that relate to the character's background or expertise. Moving in a massive hallway of a castle? An architect would admire the buttresses and the carvings, maybe even admire the materials used; an assassin would be looking at all the shadowy corners to hide in, or where someone else might hide. Also, be aware that sometimes characters omit details because it's normal for them. What would your character consider commonplace, and what things do they do that show that? It's okay to leave a few details out and let readers fill in the gaps with the rest. You don't need to be perfectly accurate in every setting. I also tend to underwrite settings so this advice is as much for me as it is for you. I hope this helps! Good luck!
Dan's philosophy, which he's explained on Writing Excuses (which hopefully you're also enjoying) is to focus on what's strange or interesting about the room/setting. The current season of Writing Excuses no longer has Brandon, but they're doing deep dives.
Highlight experience, not place. What does the character notice. Think of what you would notice, or what’s in your head to point out. I usually give mundane details one or two sentences, or stuff with significance (or that the POV character really appreciates) time to breathe. But it should all tell the story, tell the characters, tell important geography etc. If you add too much, go ahead and edit it down. Or up, if that’s what you need.
I got some glee out of being able to pause this and put on The Body Electric from all the Rush I had downloaded on my phone so that I could refresh myself on it without going out of this video on UA-cam. My personal favorite story song would probably be Red Barchetta off the top of my head, but regardless Rush made a lot of cool Sci Fi songs and I love to see the appreciation for them here.
Wow, so cool my comment got commented on! 😃 Maybe a better podcast about narrative songs is: which narrative songs should be adopted into movies? I mean, 'The River' is a standout for that if you ask me. 'Where the Wild Roses Grow' another. I'm sure Dan and Brandon would have some good input in this!
As much as I would like a food heist t-shirt, a part of me also wants the promise of t-shirts to be a running gag like the podcast having a title any day now.
i LOVE the Flying Karamazov brothers!! I've seen them live and have a friend who performed with them. I used to be a performing juggler and I'm elated whenever Brandon includes juggling in his books!!
I studied hamlet at theatre school, it’s actually so fascinating to look at it in the context of the era it was written in. Hamlet is a “Revenge Tragedy” which was a very common genre in the Elizabethan era, but Hamlet’s internal turmoil is a subversion of the genre. In most versions the protagonist just goes for his revenge without much thought. What Shakespeare did was similar to what Brandon and Dan have talked about with “Jaws” and “The Godfather” - taking a “pulp fiction” (in this case pulp play) genre and elevating it. PS - IF shakespeare’s plays were written by “a committee” it is most likely they were written by the theatre company he was part of - collaborative theatre was and still is very common. If this was the case, Shakespeare was likely the one that wrote them down and the other men in the troupe were most likely fine with it. He also probably did most of the heavy lifting as far as the poetry and other elements that make Shakespeare so special.
Brandon is forgetting that Hollywood would rather overspend on IPs that are “proven” rather risk the money for a new original idea. And that a lot of our movies are being reshoots two, three, or four times, driving the movie costs also.
On the first comment, The Mandalorian used Unreal for the "volume" set backgrounds, but still they used minis for the ships. They say there's something about it that's irreproducible in Unreal. What exactly? No idea.
Dan, wasn't it The Comedy of Errors that was performed by the Flying Karamazov Brothers at Lincoln Center? That has to be my favorite performance of a Shakespeare play.
My favorite thing about Hamlet is that the entire play changes depending on how you interpret Hamlet's inaction. Is he a sane young man paralyzed by an insane situation? Is he driven insane by grief and/or an Oedipal Complex? Does he just overthink himself at the crucial moments of action ("If i kill him while he's praying, will he go to Heaven?") especially since his one moment of action turned out so badly ("Is there a rat in the arras?")? I can't read, say, Julius Caesar from different angles like that. Although Brando's Marc Antony was an interesting bend.
@DavidGFalzarano I at least learn a lot about what is trendy for rich people. Also, tequila and coffee makes sense for celebrity businesses. I totally believe Hollywood, at least, knows what all the best drugs are. These are just (some of) the legal ones.
I think the biggest disservice to any Shakespeare that someone could possible do is have a bunch of highschoolers read it out loud on their own. They don’t know the language or how to get the meaning out of the meter. In my English lit class, we watched Ian Mckellen and Judi Dench’s Macbeth, and it was utterly terrifying. Seeing it actually performed is an entirely different level of context. Also, my character name for every video game I have played for the last decade or so is “Elsinore”, after the city in Denmark that Hamlet takes place in.
I love Shakespeare! But I will say, part of the reason it’s been so popular is because really good, deep stories were fairly rare at the time. It was the 1500s, after all.
Hey Brandon, play Baulder's Gate 3 and then get Larian Studios to make a Stormlight RPG. You break records. They break records. They're privately owned. You're picky. It's a match made in the Tranquiline Halls.
Mel Gibsons Hamlet was my favourite for a long time, but now I think I prefer the David Tennent one. The black and white Much Ado is great. Love Amy Acker, and Nathan Fillion is hilarious!
My dream lego set came to be with the legend of zelda set! Sadly it is like $300 and I don’t have the space in my small room for it 😂. But it is super cool cuz you can build either the ocarina of time version or the breath of the wild version. It comes with 3 versions of link; botw, adult OOT link, and young OOT link, along with zelda. It even has the little deku tree that shows in the credit roll!
28:18 That list is sadly partly bogus. That is, from what I have heard, it was originally made with way to little efforts to look elsewhere. Shakespeare used lots of neologisms, but not all of them where created by him. It's just that finding the previous uses can be tricky or impossible.
If you're looking for songs that tell stories, find unrelated songs that tell a story arc, like Wheatus's "Teenage Dirtbag", Sixpence None The Richer's "Kiss Me", and Melissa Etheridge's "I'm the Only One".
Dan must listen to Big Iron immediately. Or Five Brothers. Heck even El Paso. Basically the Marty Robbins collection for story songs. I’m here to defend you Donald.
Please think of doing a Stormlight adaptation with Animation similar to style or direction as Arcane (League of Legends) on Netflix. I believe Stormlight and the Cosmere could benefit greatly with Imaginative CGI over live action. Love you Brando Sando
Guys... Treasure Planet is made by Disney too.
Yeah! I was wondering why they let this one in, it absolutely was a Disney movie. I think it is MUCH better than Titan AE, as a simple comparison, and would put it low in my A-tier of Disney animated movies (it's certainly not S-tier).
Yep, Disney put out the classic 1950 Treasure Island live action film, so this was a return to home of sorts for them.
@@Ryotsu2112dont forget the classic muppet treasure island was also disney, I believe was sometime in the 90s
I'm glad I'm not the only one yelling at the screen "TREASURE PLANET IS DISNEY!"
haven't seen Intentionally Blank in a year now, it is good to be back
i should start reading last chapter of Stormlight, it has already been checked out by everyone here i suppose
P.S. Guys, type in the comments your region or country that has a Brandon's translation in its native language
Scandinavians here, btw
A Cosmere LEGO series would ruin my bank account haha
Need that Urithiru lego set
you're in luck look on lego ideas it hit 10,000 votes
Wait, Treasure Planet is Disney too. It was the passion project of the guys responsible for most of the Disney Renaissance movies that they finally got to make, they'd been campaigning to get to do it for years, if I remember correctly.
Was going to say this, glad someone already did.
Dan. For the food heist perpetrator. You had "Tequila Mockingbird" _right there_!
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one! It’s so obvious!
Brandy Sanderson is a celebrity alcohol in a different universe.
Lego Urithiru scaled like the lego Burj Khalifa at Legoland would be majestic
Pratchett was a big part of me getting back into reading, multiple times. I'd read a few Discworld books when I was younger, and my college roommate recommended a few more when I decided to get back into reading for pleasure over a spring break trip with my family. I later got back into them again when I was in the Peace Corps and found a few on the shelf of the library of our office lounge. Given how many there are, and how daunting that can seem, I definitely think picking a sub-series is the best way to start, rather than publication order, just to get it into a more manageable chunk.
Not into Legos but... a set of Szeth runing along the walls of a corridor while leaving guards killed behind would be incredible...
My favorite prologue of all time in Lego form. So everytime we look at it we can go like: "Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king." 🤣
I don’t often find myself in 100% complete and total agreement with Dan, but when I do, it’s regarding chile rellenos!
Ahuevo que si. 🎉
Al chile si
"Artisonal Ding-Dongs" is a fantastic bandname.
Artisinal
@danielkirienko1701 What an incredibly important correction. Thanks for the great addition to the point. 👍
(Not to mention you ALSO spelled it wrong. Its Artisanal)
Lego set of Brian Jacques Red Wall. The Abbey, logalogs water shrew camp, Salamandastron with badger lord and long patrol.
That would be awesome!
just on the off chance that you’ll see this!
i’ve watched all of your lectures and the way you explain the craft of writing makes it so accessible! here’s the question: how do you balance description in prose? for example, if you have a room, and people in the room, how do you know how much to describe what you can “see” in the room, without overloading the reader, but still creating a picture in their mind.
how much is too much description, basically.
and if the answer is just “be good at writing” then… lie to me.
Not Brandon, but a fellow writer wanting to help!
The first thing is probably not what you want to hear but: practice. You'll start to develop a sense of what's important and what isn't as you write.
Aside from that, if you want to describe a room, make a list for yourself of everything that's in the room. Then cut that list down to three to four things of what the character would consider important. For instance, if a character goes to a party, are they going to look for the food table first? Or look for a friend? Or are they introverted and looking for the nearest corner to hide in? Ground settings in the character's perspective and what they consider important.
Secondly, start with the overall vibes of the setting and how it makes a character feel. Is it a safe place? Dangerous? Neutral? Then introduce the various details that either challenge that initial feel, or reaffirm it. Doing this can also help the pacing since you're not frontloading the details all at once. Start small and as the character perceives more, you can introduce more details. Especially details that relate to the character's background or expertise. Moving in a massive hallway of a castle? An architect would admire the buttresses and the carvings, maybe even admire the materials used; an assassin would be looking at all the shadowy corners to hide in, or where someone else might hide.
Also, be aware that sometimes characters omit details because it's normal for them. What would your character consider commonplace, and what things do they do that show that?
It's okay to leave a few details out and let readers fill in the gaps with the rest. You don't need to be perfectly accurate in every setting. I also tend to underwrite settings so this advice is as much for me as it is for you.
I hope this helps! Good luck!
Dan's philosophy, which he's explained on Writing Excuses (which hopefully you're also enjoying) is to focus on what's strange or interesting about the room/setting.
The current season of Writing Excuses no longer has Brandon, but they're doing deep dives.
I recommend Writing Excuses! Brandon did that podcast for a while, and it’s got great writing advice.
Highlight experience, not place. What does the character notice. Think of what you would notice, or what’s in your head to point out. I usually give mundane details one or two sentences, or stuff with significance (or that the POV character really appreciates) time to breathe.
But it should all tell the story, tell the characters, tell important geography etc. If you add too much, go ahead and edit it down. Or up, if that’s what you need.
Yay for a Rush shoutout! :) As for a song that tells a story, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" has to be on the list
DESPICABLE ME AND MEGAMIND ARE FIRE!
Also, as someone who isn’t really a fan of legos, I’d LOVE to see some Cosmere sets!
Big Iron is my favorite song in the New Vegas Soundtrack, I see you, man, and I love you.
BIIIIG IIIIIIRON... BIG IRON...
El Paso and Big Iron absolutely count as narrative songs; they're ballads!
I personally love ballad of the Alamo!
33:17 Dan: Those are numbers, Donald.
LOL. funniest guy in the company Dan is.
was just researching the other day if food heist shirts ever happened! whenever both teams are ready, we’re ready too!
I got some glee out of being able to pause this and put on The Body Electric from all the Rush I had downloaded on my phone so that I could refresh myself on it without going out of this video on UA-cam. My personal favorite story song would probably be Red Barchetta off the top of my head, but regardless Rush made a lot of cool Sci Fi songs and I love to see the appreciation for them here.
Wow. Deep cut Rush. I haven't ever heard of anyone outside Rush fandom mention "The Body Electric" in passing.
2112 by Rush fits the bill for the narrative song that is fantastic!
The Lego set looks great, Dan!
Brandon, we need a reversible set with Rothar and Shadesmar!
A Cosmere lego set (or three) would be awesome.
You both are way nerdier than I thought and I love it
Wow, so cool my comment got commented on! 😃
Maybe a better podcast about narrative songs is: which narrative songs should be adopted into movies? I mean, 'The River' is a standout for that if you ask me. 'Where the Wild Roses Grow' another. I'm sure Dan and Brandon would have some good input in this!
As much as I would like a food heist t-shirt, a part of me also wants the promise of t-shirts to be a running gag like the podcast having a title any day now.
i LOVE the Flying Karamazov brothers!! I've seen them live and have a friend who performed with them. I used to be a performing juggler and I'm elated whenever Brandon includes juggling in his books!!
Adore this series! Also omg love the lego set :D
Hand made ding dongs is killing me! 😂😂😂 Sorry, I'm five.
I don't have a favorite Hamlet. However, I maintain that the best Shakespeare adaptation is "10 Things I Hate About You"
My ideal Lego set would be a Mighty Morphin Megazord.
Popcorn popped on the stove in ghee is fantastic.
My favorite Hamlet: Strange Brew
Laughed out loud at homemade artisanal ding-dongs
I studied hamlet at theatre school, it’s actually so fascinating to look at it in the context of the era it was written in. Hamlet is a “Revenge Tragedy” which was a very common genre in the Elizabethan era, but Hamlet’s internal turmoil is a subversion of the genre. In most versions the protagonist just goes for his revenge without much thought. What Shakespeare did was similar to what Brandon and Dan have talked about with “Jaws” and “The Godfather” - taking a “pulp fiction” (in this case pulp play) genre and elevating it.
PS - IF shakespeare’s plays were written by “a committee” it is most likely they were written by the theatre company he was part of - collaborative theatre was and still is very common. If this was the case, Shakespeare was likely the one that wrote them down and the other men in the troupe were most likely fine with it. He also probably did most of the heavy lifting as far as the poetry and other elements that make Shakespeare so special.
As someone named Ben, the ending was a touch unnerving.
It's a travesty that Brando's Brandy will never be a thing. 😂
I would argue that Romeo and Juliet is the most famous of Shakespeare's plays.
We definitely need more responding to comments in further episodes.
Brandon is forgetting that Hollywood would rather overspend on IPs that are “proven” rather risk the money for a new original idea.
And that a lot of our movies are being reshoots two, three, or four times, driving the movie costs also.
Big Iron by Marty Robbins is the best narrative song. Texas Red was a son of a gun that got what was coming to him.
I immediately went to old country. Johnny Cash has a few contenders for me. I prefer Big Iron as a song, but Boy Named Sue is the better story imo.
On the first comment, The Mandalorian used Unreal for the "volume" set backgrounds, but still they used minis for the ships. They say there's something about it that's irreproducible in Unreal. What exactly? No idea.
Just west of Bordeaux, south of Champaign, lies the beautiful region of Ding Dong, France.
Dan, wasn't it The Comedy of Errors that was performed by the Flying Karamazov Brothers at Lincoln Center? That has to be my favorite performance of a Shakespeare play.
My favorite thing about Hamlet is that the entire play changes depending on how you interpret Hamlet's inaction. Is he a sane young man paralyzed by an insane situation? Is he driven insane by grief and/or an Oedipal Complex? Does he just overthink himself at the crucial moments of action ("If i kill him while he's praying, will he go to Heaven?") especially since his one moment of action turned out so badly ("Is there a rat in the arras?")?
I can't read, say, Julius Caesar from different angles like that. Although Brando's Marc Antony was an interesting bend.
I must be out of touch because I didn’t know that celebrity alcohol was a trend. It's funny that I learned about it here, of all places.
I get all my news from this podcast
@DavidGFalzarano I at least learn a lot about what is trendy for rich people.
Also, tequila and coffee makes sense for celebrity businesses. I totally believe Hollywood, at least, knows what all the best drugs are. These are just (some of) the legal ones.
I think the biggest disservice to any Shakespeare that someone could possible do is have a bunch of highschoolers read it out loud on their own. They don’t know the language or how to get the meaning out of the meter.
In my English lit class, we watched Ian Mckellen and Judi Dench’s Macbeth, and it was utterly terrifying. Seeing it actually performed is an entirely different level of context.
Also, my character name for every video game I have played for the last decade or so is “Elsinore”, after the city in Denmark that Hamlet takes place in.
I love Shakespeare! But I will say, part of the reason it’s been so popular is because really good, deep stories were fairly rare at the time. It was the 1500s, after all.
Midsummer Nights Dream is my favorite..also because of an absolutely stellar performance
I’m assuming Brandon is referring to Vic’s Popcorn. It is our second best export right after Brandon Sanderson himself.
If I ever had a celebrity, artisanal food, it would be a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese where the noodles are shaped like my face.
I'd love more episodes like this
Sandercorn! Also Dan should endorse coffins. Well’s Coffins.
Best Narrative song: The Saga Begins by Weird Al (parody of American Pie).
Don Maclean & George Lucas both love it.
Brandon Sanderson's Brandy Sans Brandy Brand. The product? Reused empty brandy bottles filled with tap water.
Hey Brandon, play Baulder's Gate 3 and then get Larian Studios to make a Stormlight RPG. You break records. They break records. They're privately owned. You're picky. It's a match made in the Tranquiline Halls.
34:00 But... Treasure Planet is also Disney lol
7:20 -- Dan Aykroyd is the first one I remember hearing about, he's had his crystal skull vodka for years
Rare Dan win on his assessment of Rescuers: Down Under
Artisinal Dingue-Dongue region of France, indeed.
I think Brandon would like the Rivendell set if someone in the office hasn’t taken that one already.
Omg the dan kiss at the end sent me
Mel Gibsons Hamlet was my favourite for a long time, but now I think I prefer the David Tennent one. The black and white Much Ado is great. Love Amy Acker, and Nathan Fillion is hilarious!
You should do a "How's that Ben?"-episode where he tier lists some of your most watched episodes
A The Last Battle Lego set with 80 000 pieces would be great.
No one ever perfoms it but my favorite Shakespeare play is As You Like It.
I know it didn’t win, but I desperately want a book called “The Great British Fake off: Based on the T-Shirt”
I was screaming The Body Electric when they mentioned a Rush song about robots
Brandon popcorn can debut when films start releasing
My dream lego set came to be with the legend of zelda set! Sadly it is like $300 and I don’t have the space in my small room for it 😂. But it is super cool cuz you can build either the ocarina of time version or the breath of the wild version. It comes with 3 versions of link; botw, adult OOT link, and young OOT link, along with zelda. It even has the little deku tree that shows in the credit roll!
On the subject of narrative songs, Fool for Love by Lord Huron is a gem.
Treasure Planet is actually marvelous!
Treasure planet is Disney!!!!
Split between listening to this or Wind and Truth
Can't believe they didn't mention Albuquerque for narrative songs
The greatest narrative song of all time.
Corridor Digital is awesome. Both the people and the productions.
i still remember them contemplating about calling this podcast popcornture or stubad
Came for his popcorn takes, stayed for his books
Zeffirell's Hamlet is the one with Mel Gibson. So good
The Fall movie that only cost $3m was a decent indie movie for the cost.
But like Brandon said, it's the exception not the rule.
Honestly I'd like a Brandon Sanderson popcorn
Treasure Planet was a Disney movie
Idea for the popcorn name: Cosmere Corn
MacBeth is my favorite tragedy and Othello is my 2nd favorite
22:30 I’ll handle ordering and proofing!
OMG please release Brandon Sanderson Non-Alcoholic Wine!
The movie would be called “tequila mocking bird”.
28:18 That list is sadly partly bogus. That is, from what I have heard, it was originally made with way to little efforts to look elsewhere. Shakespeare used lots of neologisms, but not all of them where created by him. It's just that finding the previous uses can be tricky or impossible.
When you need to rhyme and pun, but the language isnt cooperating, just make up new words.
Never works when I do it
100s of Beavers proves that indie film making is here
Hamlet is the best because it's based on an old norse story lol
Sammy Hagar started the tend in 1997 with Cabo Wabo
We WILL buy that corn 🌽
If you're looking for songs that tell stories, find unrelated songs that tell a story arc, like Wheatus's "Teenage Dirtbag", Sixpence None The Richer's "Kiss Me", and Melissa Etheridge's "I'm the Only One".
Treasure Planet is Disney and I won’t accept “okay” about it
Dan must listen to Big Iron immediately. Or Five Brothers. Heck even El Paso. Basically the Marty Robbins collection for story songs. I’m here to defend you Donald.
I comment on these all the time, bit frankly I would much rather vet another Sanderson novel than a response lol
As authors, I’m sad neither of them tried to call the food thieves the Tequila Mockingbirds.
Please think of doing a Stormlight adaptation with Animation similar to style or direction as Arcane (League of Legends) on Netflix. I believe Stormlight and the Cosmere could benefit greatly with Imaginative CGI over live action. Love you Brando Sando