Why Netflix should NOT adapt Avatar and adapt A Court of Thorns and Roses instead (a video essay) ๐Ÿง

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Tbh though it sounds like they really wanna butcher avatar. They want to add more sex and blood and stuff. I don't even wanna guess what they would do to acotar lol.

๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ︎ 7 ๐Ÿ‘ค๏ธŽ︎ u/SageThistle ๐Ÿ“…๏ธŽ︎ Sep 05 2020 ๐Ÿ—ซ︎ replies

Netflix can just stay away from everything I love and Iโ€™ll be happy.

I donโ€™t want another Death Note situation.

๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ︎ 3 ๐Ÿ‘ค๏ธŽ︎ u/VulgarReader ๐Ÿ“…๏ธŽ︎ Sep 15 2020 ๐Ÿ—ซ︎ replies

I am aware it was optioned, but it went nowhere. It would be great to bypass another avatar when we already have the perfect incarnation of it. The spoilers in this video are incidental rather than direct explanations of the plot.

๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ︎ 4 ๐Ÿ‘ค๏ธŽ︎ u/boob_dragon ๐Ÿ“…๏ธŽ︎ Sep 05 2020 ๐Ÿ—ซ︎ replies
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Here's an infographic if you are a visual learner, okay? So let's just say the tip of this chart is where ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ would be. ๐ŸŽถ Music Intro ๐ŸŽถ As some of you might know, Netflix is adapting ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ: ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜“๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ˆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ into an original live-action series. When they first announced this, they said that they would be working with the ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ creators of the show to make this vision happen. A lot of people were super excited about this because there was a live-action movie a couple years agoโ€” ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต. But it was a ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ง๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ because the CGI was bad, all the characters were whitewashed. And literally everything else was terrible about it. And so, this was a way for the original creators to come into this live-action and try to ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ด ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต this time around. Unfortunately, recently, the original creators announced that they would be ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ the Netflix project. Because they had creative differences and they didn't agree with some of the decisions that were being made with this Netflix production. Then there was an article released from "inside sources" that detailed reasons for why the creators left. Ranging from: The budget not being big enough. Netflix wanting to open auditions to white actors. And wanting to make the show darker and more mature with "romance, sex, and blood". The article hasn't been proven to be legitimate because the website is known for using clickbait. And the writer has had a shady history. But I do think that there are some nuggets of truth with what really happened behind the scenes. I don't think the creators would've left a huge opportunity like this project unless there was something ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ธ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ about it. And then it got me thinking: If ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ is so difficult to pull off as a live-action, what would be a better story to adapt instead? And then I realized: It would be an adaptation of ๐˜ˆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด by Sarah J. Maas. In this video essay, I will break down all the different components for why ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ would not work as a live-action. And why ACOTAR would be the more successful and superior adaptation. First, let's introduce the two stories: ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ is a Nickelodeon cartoon show that is the closest thing to perfection that humanity will ever attain. The story centers around the journey of a 12-year-old monk named Aang. He is an airbender. He is the last survivor of the Air Nomads. And he is the current Avatar, who is tasked to being the sole person who can save the world. He becomes friends with a young brother and sister who are waterbenders. And they travel around the world to make sure that he learns all four elements of the magic system. So that he can defeat the Fire Nation that is currently at war against the rest of the world. ๐˜ˆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด is an extremely popular young adult fantasy series that is loosely based on ๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต. The story follows a human girl named Feyre, who is kidnapped by a faerie and brought into the faerie lands as punishment. But she learns more about the faerie that kidnapped her and their feelings develop from hate to love. And she learns ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ that she didn't know about faeries before. Like how they're basically humans, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜จ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜ด. So those are the two synopses of the two source materials that we're gonna go over. Let's break down the different categories for why ACOTAR would make a better adaptation than ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ. First, we'll discuss the most tumultuous aspect for why people have such reservations about adapting ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ. The casting is gonna be what makes or breaks the show. And based on Hollywood history, it's ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜บ for the decision makers to get things ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต. ๐˜ผ๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐˜ผ๐™จ๐™ž๐™–๐™ฃ. ๐˜š๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ of the worldbuilding and the magic system is based ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜บ on a variety of Asian cultures. From Chinese to Japanese to Tibetan to Inuit. So not only does ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณโ€” Including the main cast, the supporting cast, and the background charactersโ€” Have to be the ๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™˜๐™ž๐™›๐™ž๐™˜ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ. The main characters ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜บ have to be Asian and they have to be 12 to 15-years-old. To stay true to the material, you would have to put in time and effort to look for actors that have: The same age, the same ethnicities, the same appearance as the characters, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ have competent acting skills to pull off a believable show. That is ๐˜ข ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต to ask from Hollywood when they can barely fulfill the quota of one token Asian side character in a show. Plus, 20 to 30-something-year-olds are already playing teenagers and we have a hard time believing that. This pretty much sounds like an impossible mission for them. But you know what is ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ? An ACOTAR adaptation. First of all, the main character, Feyre, is a 19-year-old, conventionally attractive, skinny white girl. Which means that Netflix could ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜บ tap into any of the brunette actresses that they already have in their original shows and movies. And she would already look the part. The rest of the faeries are immortal, but they take on the appearance of being in their 20s. And all of them are just incredibly gorgeous. They have sharp jawlines that could ๐•”๐•ฆ๐•ฅ you across the screen. And based on all the fanart, they have primarily Eurocentric features. By "primarily", I mean ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ. So already, we have the genetic makeup of Hollywood and Netflix actors. All you would really have to do is just pick a blond guy for Tamlin and a guy with black hair for Rhysand. But the icing on the cake here is that Netflix can still earn performative diversity points by casting people of color. Because despite all the characters having very Eurocentric features, many of them are described as having "sun-kissed" skin or "tan" skin. Which is the ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต opportunity for Netflix to hire half white actors. Or racially ambiguous actors that are still light-skinned so that Netflix can make sure they don't get too dark. And they still have diversity. And at the very least, the white actors can get a spray tan. Maybe Ariana Grande can be a guest star in one of the episodes. But regardless, this type of casting is the perfect blend of ambiguity and safety that Netflix is comfortable with. So overall, playing these characters fit the age range, the color "range", the Eurocentric beauty standards. And at the end of the day, the only child actor that you would have to hire is Rhysand and Feyre's imaginary child when they have sex in the Christmas novella. And Rhysand imagines his unborn son as he comes. That's basically one scene. You can have a child actor come into the studioโ€” Take a picture so that they can insert it in the Christmas Hallmark special that Netflix will film. And then send the child back to school. You're obeying child actor laws with the work-life balance. The kid has a nice thing to add to his rรฉsumรฉ. And it just logistically works out for this production. I can't believe I forgot to mention this, but the ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต benefit of adapting ๐˜ˆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด instead of ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ is: Not a single Asian in sight. ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ตใ€€๐˜ขใ€€๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆใ€€๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ! You don't have to hire any Asian people, baby. Boom! You're free! It's perfect. Not a single chink in sight. Hollywood is safe once again now that they aren't forced to hire an Asian actor. Another reason why people are reluctant to believe that the ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ live-action would work is because of the budget limitations. For a story like ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ, you would need to invest some serious money to even pull off the scale of what the cartoon represented. First of all: You would have to CGI all of the firebending, the waterbending, the earthbending, the airbending. You would also have to build out entirely fictional and fantasy landscapes that are based in Asian-inspired nations. You would have to CGI a ton of animals that don't exist in the real world. Including a sky bison that is literally the size of a house. And have the characters fly around in the sky on top of that bison and still make it look realistic. Meanwhile, the only animal that you would have to CGI for ACOTAR is Rhysand's massive, monstrous cock. And I would argue that this is a necessary expense. Because while Appa is a very cute creature, he's really just an animal sidekick. Whereas Rhysand's massive schlong is an important and pivotal character to the story. Unlike Appa, that dick is not the furry side character. It's the furry ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ. And it's the reason why we keep on reading it. Instead of animating a sky bison flying around the mountainsโ€” It would be ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ to just animate the mountains shaking from Rhysand coming so ferociously with his monstrously big dick. Also, the characters in ACOTAR don't need to be flying around all the time if you need to cut down the budget. In the books, the faeries can also "winnow". Which means that they can transport from one place to another without the readers having to actually read them moving around. It does not require any special effects to have one actor disappear and then reappear in a new scene. At the very least, you can just throw in some pixie dust that you get from Claire's for, like, one dollar a bottle. You know, just cut the cameras, have the actor run away, roll the camera again, throw in the pixie dustโ€” You can even get that ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ at your niece's birthday party. There's just so many ways to slim down the budget and cut corners that ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ absolutely does not allow you to have. I'm pretty certain that the budget for adapting ๐˜ˆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด would be one-third the amount of adapting ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณโ€” If you were to pull it off successfully. Except the one-third of that budget for ACOTAR would be ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ญ and therefore, the most profitable. Okay, I'm gonna take it a step further and actually calculate the budgets for each prospective live-action. Just to prove to you that you can save ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ if you adapted ๐˜ˆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด instead. The ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ movieโ€” That we will not talk about beyond this videoโ€” Had a budget of $150 million just to cover the first season of the show. And they barely even covered it. It was very condensed ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ. So $150 million has proven to not be enough to cover ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ faithfully. 'Cause I saw that scene where white Katara tried to waterbend and that shit was ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ. So let's keep in mind that 150 million is kinda bare minimum to cover one season of ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ. You multiply that by three seasons in total. And then you would get $450 million to produce the entire Netflix live-action. With the same quality of ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ special effects in the movie that we will not talk about beyond this video. Now, let's look at ๐˜ˆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด. Based on the recent Marvel shows that Netflix has produced, like ๐˜‘๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข ๐˜‘๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜“๐˜ถ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด. It has been around 3.3 million per episode. But for ACOTAR, let's round it up to 5 million. Just for the sake of covering all that we can cover for like, the fantasy clothes, the castle. Just basic stuff like that so that you ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ that it's a fantasy show. But it's nothing crazy like ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ. You don't have to build any country from scratch. You just go to, like, a forest somewhere and just film there. So the average length of a Netflix show is eight episodes. And if we were to multiply that by 5 million, then one season would be 40 million. Which means that: three seasons ร— 40 million = 120 million in total. So this is gonna be the base budget for ACOTAR. To cover the location scouting, the wardrobe, the casting, whatever. And we also need to account for the CGI to cover Rhysand's dick. I'm scaling it down here because my notebook isn't big enough to fit his dick. So this is really just for your own purposes to understand. The average cost of CGI and animation and special effects is $33.7 million. So in order to see a realistic depiction of Rhysand's schlong, we're gonna have to spend $33.7 million on top of our $120 million. So that means we are spending roughly around $153 million. Then we also have to spend money on faerie dust when they winnow. So let's just say that we don't wanna spend this at Claire'sโ€”'cause we want, like, a bulk order. Which means that we would wanna order it from Amazon. They're selling these sets of fairy dust bottles for $10.99โ€”๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ด free shipping. So you're already saving money on that. We would use that on all eight episodes. That would be $87.92. And then, you triple that for the three seasons that we're gonna cover for the show to represent the three books. $263.76 for the faerie dust budget. Then we also have to get some faerie ears because all the faeries have pointy ears. That's what makes them faeries, besides their big dicks. So you can buy a set of them on Amazon for $8.99. You multiply that by eight episodes. You get $71.92. Then you multiply that by the three seasons. You get $215.76. And that is the budget for the prosthetic ears for all of the characters. Then you're also gonna need to green screen some stuff whenever the faeries fly around in the sky. Or whenever they have sex in the sky. So a green screen you can get as cheap as, like, $50. And then, since we're already ordering so much stuffโ€”from the prosthetic ears to the faerie bottles to the green screenโ€” We can use all those packaging peanuts inside of the boxes to package up the faeries' packages down there. Maybe in the scenes where you don't see the dick fully exposed, but you just see them walking around wearing pantsโ€” You can put the packaging peanuts inside of the pants. And so it's just nice to be able to repurpose some of the stuff. And if anything, it's kind of like recycling. So, in total: For ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ, we would have $450 million to cover three seasonsโ€”if you want it to be the ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ as that ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™ง๐™ž๐™—๐™ก๐™š movie. Compare this to ACOTAR. When you add up all of those expenditures, it becomes $153.7 million, plus $529.52. Look at the difference here! 450 million for ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณโ€”a low budget ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ that ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ฃ'๐™ฉ be successful. Compared to a faithful adaptation of ๐˜ˆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด for $153 million. And 52 cents. The math just checks out. You can't argue with the math here. This is almost ๐™๐™–๐™ก๐™› the budget that would be ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ to make ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณโ€”and ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™ช๐™˜๐™ . Whereas ACOTAR is guaranteed to be a massive success. Here's an infographic if you are a visual learner, okay? So let's just say the tip of this chart is where ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ would be. At 450 million. And we're gonna put some sweat drops coming out of the tip here. Just so that it shows like, "Oh man, we're sweating." Like, this is a ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ amount of money to spend on. So we're just gonna be, you know, like sweating all over the place here because that's ๐˜ข ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต of money. ๐˜ˆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด is gonna be right here. Because it's only $153.7 million, plus a few $500 and 52 cents. So we are actually near the shaft. So when you look at it in context: $153 million is not even that big. If anything, it's like chump change. So the fact that we are staying near this shaftโ€” Is amazing for a Netflix production. Honestly, this just makes sense financially, logistically, and narratively. I really don't know how to make it any clearer than this. But I hope that this map and these charts were useful for you to understand. The last thing I wanna discuss that Netflix is likely struggling to deal with in adapting ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ is: Agreeing on the overall tone of the show. There has been some speculation that they want to separate the live-action from the cartoon series by ageing the characters up. And creating a darker and more mature tone with romance, sex, and blood. This is such an inherently wrong approach to ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ. Because even though the original show ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ have dark themes, it still had humor and lightness to balance it out. And also ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ฎ'๐™ง๐™š ๐™›๐™ช๐™˜๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ 12-๐™ฎ๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™จ-๐™ค๐™ก๐™™. The source material was ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ so it makes ๐™ฃ๐™ค ๐™จ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™š to adapt it into a gritty fantasy. However, I understand the desire of wanting to adapt the show that appeals to younger people and has a built-in audience. But has the potential to expand the audience if you were to incorporate more mature themes. I also understand that Netflix probably has this huge wish to have their own ๐˜Ž๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด. So that they can be just as successful as HBO. But that is why ACOTAR would be the ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต show to fit all of their needs. The source material is categorized as young adult. So teenagers already love it. ๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ต it's technically new adult. So 20-something-year-old adults love it too. And then there's also kinky shit throughout the books. So then you have the moms joining in. It has the range. It has the romance. It has the blood. And by God, it has the sex. Does ๐˜Ž๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด have a scene where two characters are banging in the sky? No. They don't. Netflix could be the first revolutionary streaming service that shows a bare toned ass in the clouds up above. Think of the articles that would result from this. Think of all the memes that would spread across Twitter and get more people to check out the show. ๐˜Ž๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด will look like a vanilla children's playbook produced by Hallmark compared to Rhysand making it snow with his jizz. And ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต is cinema right there. In conclusion, Netflix wants to adapt ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ into their own live-action so that they can create their own ๐˜Ž๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด franchise. With a built-in audience, a fantasy story, and a source material that has three seasons so there's plenty to work with. But I would argue that ๐˜ˆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด makes for a much superior adaptation. Logistically, narratively, financiallyโ€”pretty much every aspect that you can think of. It has all those things that Netflix would want to make their own ๐˜Ž๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด. It has a built-in audience. It doesn't have the controversy of racial casting because you can still play it safe and half-assed. It has three books ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ข. So you can make three seasons ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ a Christmas movie. It has all the nudity that you could ever want to put in a Netflix show. To make it "mature" and "gritty" and "edgy". And overall, it just makes complete sense to go with ACOTAR instead of ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ. I hope that this video essay has helped convince you that this is just the morally right decision to pursue. I truly believe that Netflix is missing out on an opportunity by investing their money and their energy into something that is not gonna give them what they want. Whereas ๐˜ˆ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด gives them exactly everything that they want. Also, Sarah J. 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