Moonbird
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I do think there is a bit of wasted potential in this movie though.
The concept about the island itself being a land designed to split up Nakamas and pitch them against each other is a great idea for a One Piece movie.
If you had played more into the fact that it was the island itself, and all these pre-planned and set-up events that was manipulating and playing them against each other.
The villains one and only objective being to make these people feel how devastating it is to be betrayed by nakamas before he kills them for good, so they can feel his pain. Good idea.
And then if you had the big solution, NOT being Luffy pushing through solo for all of them, but the straw hats themselves as a group finding back together and stand together claiming it would take a lot more than that to really tear them apart, fighting as a unity or at least do some-thing together by the end, showing how strong their bonds really are, and they actually never really had been in the danger zone of splitting up, in spite of how they had been manipulated.
If they had really gone through with that plot-line, it could maybe have been a great movie instead of just a decent one.
the idea was great, a great way to put all the straw-hats into play and make it about them, a great way to get the audience emotionally involved, because well, the most painful thing to witness in this manga is when the straw-hats themselves are suffering.
Of course the manga all-ready kind of sort of all-ready did this plot line to perfection in the Water Seven arch, where the straw-hats as a group hit their lowest point, being teared apart from within thus leaving them weak and even make the remaining ST's question whether it's worth continuing, only for them to pull together the moment they have some-thing fighting for.
But.. I think there would be room for a movie to do the plot-line to, the Straw-hats is a big diversed group and they do fight a lot among themselves like real families do, so if they landed on such a manipulative island trying to break them up, there would be a million ways to do it, and a million ways for the straw-hats to react at first, then react in a new way when they realise they have been played.
I'm not sure if it's a movie plot that would work for the new world at all, now when the stakes have become higher and the characters larger, kind of larger than life, so any story-lines has to reflect that to make it feel worthwhile.
The more personal confined stories are kind of some-thing that seems to belong to post-time skip.
So yeah.
The concept about the island itself being a land designed to split up Nakamas and pitch them against each other is a great idea for a One Piece movie.
If you had played more into the fact that it was the island itself, and all these pre-planned and set-up events that was manipulating and playing them against each other.
The villains one and only objective being to make these people feel how devastating it is to be betrayed by nakamas before he kills them for good, so they can feel his pain. Good idea.
And then if you had the big solution, NOT being Luffy pushing through solo for all of them, but the straw hats themselves as a group finding back together and stand together claiming it would take a lot more than that to really tear them apart, fighting as a unity or at least do some-thing together by the end, showing how strong their bonds really are, and they actually never really had been in the danger zone of splitting up, in spite of how they had been manipulated.
If they had really gone through with that plot-line, it could maybe have been a great movie instead of just a decent one.
the idea was great, a great way to put all the straw-hats into play and make it about them, a great way to get the audience emotionally involved, because well, the most painful thing to witness in this manga is when the straw-hats themselves are suffering.
Of course the manga all-ready kind of sort of all-ready did this plot line to perfection in the Water Seven arch, where the straw-hats as a group hit their lowest point, being teared apart from within thus leaving them weak and even make the remaining ST's question whether it's worth continuing, only for them to pull together the moment they have some-thing fighting for.
But.. I think there would be room for a movie to do the plot-line to, the Straw-hats is a big diversed group and they do fight a lot among themselves like real families do, so if they landed on such a manipulative island trying to break them up, there would be a million ways to do it, and a million ways for the straw-hats to react at first, then react in a new way when they realise they have been played.
I'm not sure if it's a movie plot that would work for the new world at all, now when the stakes have become higher and the characters larger, kind of larger than life, so any story-lines has to reflect that to make it feel worthwhile.
The more personal confined stories are kind of some-thing that seems to belong to post-time skip.
So yeah.