The Worst Adaptation Ever Made - The Art of Adaptation Pt. 3 | Video Essay

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  • čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
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    PART 1: • What Makes a Good Adap...
    PART 2: • Why Do So Many Adaptat...
    The Last Airbender is an unholy film that caused me to reconsider how bad an adaptation can truly be. Moreover, it made me question what steps can be taken in order to ensure that an adaptation this bad is never produced by humanity ever again.
    Credits:
    Written, voiced, and edited by me.
    Music Used: docs.google.com/document/d/1C...
    All clips used belong to their respective copyright owners.
    Timecodes:
    0:00 - Reintroduction
    4:40 - Last Airbender | The Intro
    9:18 - Last Airbender | The Pacing
    13:15 - Last Airbender | The Characters
    18:12 - Last Airbender | The World
    20:00 - Last Airbender | Scene Comparison
    25:20 - Last Airbender | Conclusion
    27:53 - What Should be Adapted?
    39:37 - The Adaptation Formula
    49:25 - Bias
    52:22 - Everything is an Adaptation
    55:05 - Outro
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Komentáře • 72

  • @ellac.949
    @ellac.949 Před 2 lety +33

    yeah i didn't watch avatar when I was a kid either - my boyfriend introduced me to it when i was 19, we binged over the pandemic, i loved it, and then instantly he made me watch the film. worst whiplash in the fucking world.

  • @btarczy5067
    @btarczy5067 Před rokem +37

    Holy shit, that Syrim cut of the dialogue was funny.
    Thanks Better Call Saul for making me discover this channel, as if that show needed even more going for it.

  • @funniusername4355
    @funniusername4355 Před rokem +37

    The dialogue in this movie sounds like Shamalan took lines from the show, put them through Google translate two or three times and used whatever came out

  • @DiamondKingStudios
    @DiamondKingStudios Před rokem +4

    The way Sokka’s name is pronounced in the film reminds me of in high school when I had to memorize sine as opposite over hypotenuse and cosine as adjacent over hypotenuse (SOH+CAH).
    Holy precalculus, Shyamalan!

  • @renaigh
    @renaigh Před 8 měsíci +3

    GoT's biggest flaw was adapting the entire first book in one season, cramming every plotline into the same timeframe is ultimately what lead to the adaptation losing sight of whatever the heck it was trying to do.

  • @Hvaile420
    @Hvaile420 Před rokem +8

    someday this man is gonna blow up. This is another gem of a youtuber that is criminally underrated

  • @damienlarson4145
    @damienlarson4145 Před rokem +3

    My reaction to movie Sokka: look how they massacred my boy.

  • @kappacat2506
    @kappacat2506 Před 2 lety +11

    the patented verdana adaptation formula is also an adaptation, very disappointed kind sir.

  • @sammypercy388
    @sammypercy388 Před rokem +3

    24:45 editing choices like this are gonna end up making you my favorite youtuber

  • @SamHaugen
    @SamHaugen Před rokem +1

    "We believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs."
    How did this get greenlit?

  • @kierraellis6570
    @kierraellis6570 Před rokem +1

    The phrase "There's nothing new under the sun" really needs to be preached more. Most hate is derived from ignorance after all.

  • @VampyKitsune
    @VampyKitsune Před rokem +4

    Excellent video by the way. most of these steps revolve around the acronym P.A.S.S.L.O.R.D.S
    Plan
    Arrange
    Sketch (draft)
    Step back
    Look over
    Omit
    Redraw (rewrite)
    Detail
    Submit

  • @biglebrovnik7519
    @biglebrovnik7519 Před rokem +1

    I watched this when I was quarantined. Best time of my life. Love your videos

  • @chiefblacklung1120
    @chiefblacklung1120 Před rokem +1

    Ay just found this channel was listening to this at work. It's hella good dog. Please keep making long form shit like this. This shit keeps me going through my shitty job yo.

  • @pingpongboi8144
    @pingpongboi8144 Před 2 lety +5

    Skyrim joke was class hahahaha

  • @jesuisbegtodiffer
    @jesuisbegtodiffer Před 2 lety +21

    AWESOME video, loved it.
    Also, Arcane is an interesting new adaptation mainly because, whereas most adaptations are looking to translate the success of a story / characters from one medium into another, Arcane was made to expand the storytelling potential that is limited in an MMO. They were making something new and so all they had to focus on was preserving the characters, there was nothing superfluous to cut for time or ruin lol.

  • @roastbeef1416
    @roastbeef1416 Před rokem +3

    I can't tell if 21:57 is a reference to the card scene from American Psycho the way you said it or extremely coincidental

    • @VerdanaVideos
      @VerdanaVideos  Před rokem +3

      Shit dude I didn’t even notice that but you’re right, I said it almost the exact same way. Maybe I am Patrick Bateman after all

  • @sapphireparcival5428
    @sapphireparcival5428 Před rokem +2

    I walked into Walmart for the bathroom and walked out with Atla the complete series on DVD

  • @balued9624
    @balued9624 Před rokem

    You have to be the most underrated content creator on the platform man I enjoy all of your videos all the way through every time and they only get like 500 likes

  • @blissfuldj7627
    @blissfuldj7627 Před rokem +6

    The avatar movie was my first taste of disappointment from someone other than my parents, and that was a new experience

  • @Beegeezy144
    @Beegeezy144 Před 2 lety +4

    You should do one about Eragon. What a dumpster fire.

  • @CobwebbyCurve
    @CobwebbyCurve Před rokem +2

    found this thanks to your tiktok, this series is very well made and good

  • @mikefine619
    @mikefine619 Před rokem +2

    I'm just starting episode 3 of this after binging your stuff all afternoon and you truly are great at what you do. Great introspective videos and funny creative topics as well. Glad I found your stuff.

  • @KaneMidge
    @KaneMidge Před 2 lety +2

    Another beautiful video my guy

  • @damienlarson4145
    @damienlarson4145 Před rokem +1

    Ung: My name is Ung.
    Me: Son of a BITCH!!! YOU SAY YOUR NAME RIGHT! RIGHT NOW!

  • @damienlarson4145
    @damienlarson4145 Před rokem +1

    Akira is another example of an adaption that was made before it ended. Only four volumes were made before the movie was made. Like Scott Pilgrim, the ending of the movie influenced the ending of the manga. I don't personally think of the Akira movie as an adaptation of the manga but rather an different telling of the same story but the beats of the manga in there.

  • @johannvonbabylon
    @johannvonbabylon Před 7 měsíci

    4:10
    Appa was the movie's most unforgivable sin. Animated Appa is the sweetest floofiest cuddlebeast that could warm the heart of Hitler. Movie Appa is a frightening monster.

  • @Zenith_697
    @Zenith_697 Před rokem

    man the scene where the prisoners using earth bending is worse than I remember, all that bending only a chunk of rock slowly flies towards an enemy

  • @damienlarson4145
    @damienlarson4145 Před rokem +1

    ATLA should never be in live action. It should always stay in animation because it was meant to be like.

  • @johnwright148
    @johnwright148 Před 9 měsíci +1

    This trilogy was far better than The Hobbit, subscribed!

  • @DJtheLoaf
    @DJtheLoaf Před rokem +2

    So not that I want to defend much the trainwreck that is the live action airbender movie, buuuut... you're wrong about one point about it:
    The name Aang isn't just a name the animated show made up-- all the character names are actual names from the various Asian cultures they were drawing from in the world building and, uh... the animated series is actually the one that got it wrong. The live action film, as terrible as it is, actually has the correct pronunciation of the name Aang. The change in pronunciation between show and film was basically just correcting the show's mistake (all the more baffling tho with the whitewashing of the cast, but hey...)
    A friend of mine actually could not stand to sit through the original animated series because the repeated mispronunciation of the name Aang in that show she found incredibly distracting and pulled her out of the experience constantly, in much the same way that the the way it's pronounced in the live action film bugged the shit out of fans of the animated series who didn't know that the animated series had actually pronounced the name wrong the whole time.

  • @SaiScribbles
    @SaiScribbles Před 11 měsíci

    Only one thing: I wouldn't say all art and stories are adaptations but iterations.

  • @aaronl4935
    @aaronl4935 Před 2 lety +9

    This video is amazing.
    They probably skip the scene where Aang introduces himself to Sokka/Katara cuz they cant afford to make Appa look good lmao
    After seeing the cowboy bebop Live action (4/10 imo) I feel like they are doomed to fail. We already know what they are supposed to look like and sound like in animation, so there doesnt feel like much of a point like there is with book adaptations. The people who are making the Netflix ATLA seem very passionate on every level of staff, but the best it could be is like a 6/10.
    Also they have a limited budget of prob 80-120 million, split between 10 episodes, so how are they gonna afford to make Appa/Momo look good aswell as the action and sets. It feels like a mess in the waiting
    Edit: I think Katara and Sokka went along with Aang in the show, not only cuz they realize how important he is, but also because Katara wants to learn waterbending. This makes it so it doesnt feel weird that they are just throwing everything away to help this kid, but also preserve the art of waterbending in their tribe.
    The youtube channel "Hello future me" also made a video critiquing the movie its pretty good aswell

    • @VerdanaVideos
      @VerdanaVideos  Před 2 lety +4

      Thank you for the thoughtful comment! And yeah, there seem to be some major red flags in the development of the ATLA show that imply it’s not going to be…uh…good. It’s truly difficult to name adaptations of animated properties that don’t suck, because animation in itself is part of the identity of those properties. Stripping it away just feels like a crime.

  • @wag4940
    @wag4940 Před rokem +1

    dune. jojo. Atla. Witcher. It's giving me an aneurysm seeing all my fave media within the same video

    • @wag4940
      @wag4940 Před rokem +1

      also I think 84 dune gets a pass bc he's the funny old grandpa of the movie adaptations.

  • @doubt2022
    @doubt2022 Před rokem +1

    we just can't comprehend the genius of Shyamalan😂😂🤣

  • @DracaliaRay
    @DracaliaRay Před 5 měsíci

    I remember watching the movie as a kid FIRST. I couldn’t for the life of me understand why people hated this awesome world and the cool concepts presented in the movie. Then I watched the show. *pikachu face*

  • @Xpwnxage
    @Xpwnxage Před rokem

    The scenes are so bad I didn't even want you to play them, I just wanted you to keep talking about how bad it is.

  • @renaigh
    @renaigh Před 8 měsíci

    was that... **blinks rapidly** ...Nicholas Cage in blackface?

  • @cooliostarstache5474
    @cooliostarstache5474 Před 10 měsíci

    12:23
    Is that Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 music? Holy shit based

  • @lordpistonia
    @lordpistonia Před rokem

    I waaaaited for the scene where 6 (SIX!) earth benders were needed to move a small rock 😂

  • @JH-wg2dc
    @JH-wg2dc Před 2 lety +9

    I watched ATLA last year and yeah it good.

    • @VerdanaVideos
      @VerdanaVideos  Před 2 lety +2

      Yeah I was apprehensive about it at first because of how goofy it is, but I eventually warmed up to it and it totally still holds up today.

  • @ennayanne
    @ennayanne Před 9 měsíci

    but game of thrones had enough source material, it went to shit because D&D decided to just... ignore it. The idea that they ran out of books to adapt is false

  • @jackleech5946
    @jackleech5946 Před 2 lety +2

    Why doesn't this have more views!?

  • @jTiKey
    @jTiKey Před 7 měsíci

    When will you have youtube memberships?

  • @kaykutcher2103
    @kaykutcher2103 Před 2 lety +3

    Cats.

    • @VerdanaVideos
      @VerdanaVideos  Před 2 lety +1

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    • @kaykutcher2103
      @kaykutcher2103 Před 2 lety +3

      @@VerdanaVideos Interestingly enough that can also be used as a concise review of The Last Airbender movie.

  • @erichmyles4481
    @erichmyles4481 Před 5 měsíci

    I could've forgive the white washing and the mispronounced names... ig... but the bending.... and Zuko's scar, and the dialogue, and the energy.... and everything. It's so baaaad.

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan Před rokem +1

    Last Airbender movie SUCKED SO MUCH WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY.

  • @Undeadaccount
    @Undeadaccount Před rokem

    i dont think it was about white and brown people, it was something like real races equated to what shamalan felt should be the characters races, like fire middle eastern, snow folk white, air some sort of asian, totally ass tho man and the races in the show already fit perfectly.

  • @totalstranger9880
    @totalstranger9880 Před rokem +3

    netflix blackwashes all their shows

  • @yourmother897
    @yourmother897 Před 8 měsíci

    Katara was still bad af tho

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan Před rokem

    Wonder how well the netflix live action will do - at least it will have room to do whatever. Hope its not woke/bad... We shall see. O_o; can't be worse then this... can it? UwU.

  • @1800mexicano
    @1800mexicano Před rokem +1

    tbh i felt nothing for yue in the cartoon either. she has a total of like 10 minutes with sokka and none of it goes beyond them being teenagers who seem drawn to each other. then they have heartfelt moments and she dies. it could have been turned into a genuine friendship instead of a romance and it would have been more believable

  • @VampyKitsune
    @VampyKitsune Před rokem

    At certain points I get some Cosmonaut vibes from the music like 46:25.

  • @dandytron2000
    @dandytron2000 Před rokem

    ong

  • @colorblockpoprocks6973
    @colorblockpoprocks6973 Před 8 měsíci

    For the beginning, to be fair, *no one* was meant to be "white". No one is meant to be anything but some level of melanin, this isn't our planet we're talking about. Fire nation is definitely more pale, but suits more eastern Asian traits whereas the Water tribes are meant to be based on Inuit cultures. Like, while the skin tones would be more accurate if reversed, at least *someone* was melanated in the cast. That seems to be pretty important to a lot of people so it's almost like he got half a point there!

  • @BesoffenerIslamist
    @BesoffenerIslamist Před rokem

    Sooo...race swapping bad now?
    Or just in this particular case?

  • @avenger31x93
    @avenger31x93 Před rokem +1

    Imagine being the poor girl cast as azula to be in the last scene for 3 seconds just to set up a sequel that will.never happen

  • @goddesscarolyn19
    @goddesscarolyn19 Před 11 měsíci

    To be completely fair... Aang's name is pronounced wrong in the Avatar show. Ung is the way it should be properly pronounced.