How is it like fan-fiction? It's an original work. Doesn't a fan-fiction requre basically taking someone else's character (plus your own mary-sues) and messing them together for better or more likely much worse? Yes there are homages/references to games, bands and comics but it so vague that it doesn't really fit that description.Vortigar said:I'm still on the fence on this movie and the comic.
I'm an avid comics reader but this smells too much like fanfiction gone wild to me. The idea that a book like this sells and a movie like this was made is more interesting to me than the actual book or movie itself.
But I must agree, it's very interesting to see such a niche film produced. It's really only targeted at majority of twenty-somethings, but it captured the nature/attitude of that generation/group amazingly well.
I know a whole bunch of indie kids as well as wannabe hipsters and what I noticed is bass is disproportionatley popular with them. No idea why, most can play both, I wonder if it's a similar thing with Bryan O'Malley, or something he's experienced. Also it works better in the film if he's not lead singer/guitar, his abscence and replacement in the band is less noticeable and it creates a parallel between him and the bassist of The Clash At The Demonhead.Everybody is always interested in guitar solos so they decided to change it up and do bass guitar instead. That's it. Beginning and end of story.
It has nothing to do with musical theory or any kinds of whys and wherefores. There's no intelligent debate to be had here. The author of the book probably plays bass guitar and wanted to put them in the limelight for a change.