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>The first Half-Life movie treatment pitched to us," reveals Laidlaw, "climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children."

This makes a lot of sense from a screenwriting perspective. Positions Gordon as more of a John Carter type, helping liberate an oppressed alien race from the bad aliens.

The last one I saw had Black Mesa invaded by a cavalry unit, just so as to feature a scene of bullsquids tearing into armored horses... Which I admit is sort of cool," Laidlaw concedes, "but it has nothing to do with Half-Life

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climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children

what the fuck. What does Hollywood writers smoke?

Are you saying it's a problem? Makes a lot of sense. One of the issues with the original HL as a story is that it has no real emotional arc. It doesn't actually build to anything. There's no meaningful stakes for the audience to get invested in. Thus "Gordon saves the alien slaves" is born.

shut up you idiot jew

You can do that without getting sappy, have him free the slaves and they help him out

Resident Evil is really the template for making Half-Life work as a film. Completely original cast who are blatantly characters from the game with name changes. Something goes very wrong in a laboratory. The main character has memory issues.

Audiences want sappy. Look at how much the Avatar films really lean on the angle of the blue space cats having families.

Avatar is fucking shit, I would have walked out of 2 if I wasn’t with others

Gordon has never been an actual character. Laidlaw is right. He's not even one dimensional.

He is, of course, correct.
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black mesa (the modern engine remake of hl1) is pure ludokino specifically because it succeeds at giving the story a meaningful emotional arc that lives up to the emotional elements of hl2 and the episodes. if you haven't played it check it out, the soundtrack alone is a masterpiece

Action/horror movies don't need emotional arcs. The struggle for survival evokes emotion own its own

I agree with you to an extent but black mesa really does show how much an emotional arc lifts half life up

I always post: if you want to do a HL movie/series, tell a different story, not the one from Gordon's perspective. Just like they released two expansion packs with parallel stories, both of which crossed paths with Gordon, you can do the same. Make it about a group of scientists/security guards who are doing their day jobs, then the resonance cascade happens, and they have to fight their way across BM to get to the Lambda complex as well to make it operational.

This, having tone of these lil niggas latch on to you is scary enough

Laidlaw is right. The appeal of Half-Life is an unbroken sequence where you are the survivor against alien and man made horrors. Making it third-person and starring The Rock or some shit is just making it generic slop. If Gordon was a silent protagonist it would be a start.

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Why not just film it like Hardcore Henry then

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this but for the shephard movie

in that case you may as well literally just watch somebody play the game

Here's your Freeman

They're waiting out the quip era, probably a good decision. When it becomes ok to make an action movie with humor again, he can be like Chev Chelios. A serious man around the office, to whom funny things just seem to happen. Enough character to make you feel the viscera, but not enough to block the view.

The DOA movie is awesome

that is why you dont use gordon but make a new main character set in the same world

or this . hardcore henry was fucking awesome

apparently there are a lot of whiny bitches that get sea sick watching first person footage while sitting still. But on the other hand the concept has never gone through mass approval. Hardcore Henry made a decent buck compared to its budget but was constrained by obscurity

shame too as the cast and crew clearly had a lot of fun making it and wanted to do another one

Idiot.

immediately kill off Gordon

make it about Alyx instead

directed by JJ Abrams

Valve says it's canon

How mad would that make everyone?

They just take the guy from Opposing Force or Blue Shift or some other POV
Writers are free to do what they want with the character, they’re not constrained by the game’s plotline and nobody gets mad
You can have cavalry, Gordon just didn’t get to see them, I mean Black Mesa is supposed to be huge

that would have been the way. Just having real life Alyx walking around in tight pants for 90 minutes would have sold a lot of tickets.

I'm scared to look up what she looks like now.

Half Life was never about Gordon Freeman. It was about the world building, all weird shit, aliens and horror and action scenes. The protagonist does not really matter, it is gonna be some paki/indian or negro anyway in this woke century anyway.

What matters is the concept of Half Life, alien invasion and portals and shooting stuff. That is what the plot should be.

I agree that any kind of half life movie shouldn't be about gordon, but I feel like you're both massively understating how iconic gordon is to the half life IP and how central he is to the story. the whole point is that he's simultaneously one of the single most important characters in-universe, and yet also entirely malleable to what the player imagines him to be when they play. that's the beauty of it. the story IS at least to a significant degree about gordon.

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