It Would Work

[Petike]

[quote=Thaliur]Hm, good point on that... But how about the technique of inner monologues ? You know : The camera catches the protagonist, he usualy doesn't speak aloud at all, but there is a voiceover of his, which unfolds his immediate thoughts to the viewers... What do you think ? Would that work (if it wouldn't be overused) ?

Like seeing the events unfold while hearing what Philip wrote about them in the message the game is based on? That could be a pretty good idea, and provides the opportunity to even get some of the notes into the movie.

Yes, that too... You elaborated the idea even better than me. :-) Nice suggestions. What I meant originally with the "inner monologues" were normal scenes of Philip walking, looking around, using the flashlight / glowstick / flares, hiding behind crates and corners, watching the monsters, using stealth, clutching the improvised weapons in his trembling hands... and you would regularly hear his thoughts, as if he normally spoke. But they would of course sound quiet and echoy, to highlight the fact, that they are just his inner thoughts. I sure bet that when you play the game, the remarks that he makes, when you examine objects, are just for himself, because there is no reason to speak them out loud. So, in the film version, he would normally talk just in the beginning (still at home in England) and during the rest of the story in the Greenland underground, he would only occasionaly speak verbally, e. g. with Red through the walkie-talkie... Because it would be illogical (and hilarious), if he would keep commenting everything he sees down there aloud. Every monster would then chase him and the whole thing would turn into a parody. So he simply needs to stay a silent protagonist through the majority of the film, not speaking for 80 - 85 % of the time, just thinking things for himself about his situation, about who the hell is Red, the Archaic Elevated Caste, and what dark mysteries of the past lurk in this underground base. And of course, he would have regular flashbacks, strange dreams (when he falls asleep, or at the beginning, when he falls down the entrance hatch), memories of his relatives... And don't forget the strange "whispering alien lamps" that are all over the place. As in the game, he would regularly stare into these and witness a strange state of mind and body, seeing some retrospective images involving the scientists, the alien virus and some events that lead to it's outbreak. Remember playing Overture ? He kept saying he saw his father in those strange artefacts with the other co-workers and gradually saw what happened to them, how a few of them became infected and the healthy ones turned against each other violently. Or how they experimented with the already infected ones and how the base became devastated and destroyed. That would be a nice touch too... And of course, the film would have to be made out of the storyline of both episodes...