COINCIDENCE?!? Why yes. - by jtr7
jtr7 on 29/7/2009 at 03:50
Timeless images in fantasy, fantastical images to give reality some oomph.
Top image, the Glyphs glow with fiery light as the blind Caduca reads.
Middle, a Hand Mage writes in a journal.
Nicodemus the wizard writes in his journal with magical fire-written words in Don Bluth's
The Secret of NIMH at the bottom:
Inline Image:
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5542/20463622.jpgCecil B. DeMille's
The Ten Commandments.
Inline Image:
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9664/tencommandments.jpgPeter Jacskon's
Lord of the Rings:
Inline Image:
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/2221/onering.jpgFiery words and words written with power or magic or by the powerful are serious serious business. I wonder if the Glyphs glowed with Caduca's draining life force? Naw. Other glyphs glowed, but not golden. Hmmm. Although, she did die charred and smoking.
How many times have we seen this story-telling device?
Just thoughts in my murky dream-drenched unsleeping mind.
clearing on 29/7/2009 at 04:42
Thanks for that! Interesting.
Quote Posted by jtr7
Just thoughts in my murky dream-drenched unsleeping mind.
:D
jtr7 on 29/7/2009 at 18:06
Another thematic coincidence:
Quote Posted by Legacy of Kain: Defiance
Now, at last, the masks had fallen away. The strings of the puppets had become visible, and the hands of the prime mover exposed.
RavynousHunter on 29/7/2009 at 18:23
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Although, she did die charred and smoking.
Maybe she dropped her cigarette? :cheeky:
jtr7 on 29/7/2009 at 18:25
FWHOOOOOMPH!!!
Barbecue! Glyph Surprise al Caduca. :ebil:
:eww:
demagogue on 29/7/2009 at 18:54
At least in the Western tradition, I think it has origins in the bible stories where God writes something, either the stone tablets in Exodus or the warning to Belshazzar in Daniel.
As for the actual visual image, maybe this painting was very influential to that:
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http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/rembrandt-belshazzars-feast)
jtr7 on 29/7/2009 at 19:20
As far as I know, with inscribing, it is just a special effect to show power, but nothing is set in stone. It would be of interest to find the earliest use of it. Thanks demagogue.:thumb: So, 1637 or whereabouts, eh? Yeah, and people can't see past the famous Christ portrait, either.
So... The first set of stone tablets were written by God himself, the action of which was never described, only that He had, and Moses smashed them... and then Moses had to write the second set.:p
The portentous phrase about seeing "the handwriting on the wall" comes from a message of impending judgment against Belshazzar, the king of Babylon, delivered by disembodied fingers writing on a wall. Just writing on plaster, though.
Fire is usually for sacrifice and purifying and final judgment, but not the inscribing of words. Of course, after the movie came out, a lot of people allowed those images to burn into their mind in place of the text that inspired it, including Moses' massive change in hairstyles.:tsktsk::laff:
A special effect, like how every planetoid-sized explosion in sci-fi has that ring of energy coming off of it now, ahead of the fireball. Never gets old. :nono: :)
RavynousHunter on 30/7/2009 at 04:46
I, personally, would prefer lightning, if only because the whole fire thing is somewhat overplayed.
jtr7 on 30/7/2009 at 04:54
Heh heh. Yeah. Or sputtering slime that evaporates, but not fast enough.
Dan on 3/8/2009 at 00:04
Hmmm...Is it really fire that illuminates the glyphs or the light from the great void beyond? Do we judge by the fire-ish color? ... Yep, lightning and DEFINITELY slime would be nice :)
