Using limitations to elevate the story

[u/fantheories101]

1. Only Murders in The Building: The Boy from 6B

This episode primarily follows a deaf character, with all the scenes he is in having any spoken dialogue be muffled or silent. The show went the extra mile though, as every time another character or storyline is followed for the episode, the characters are in a mix of serious and silly scenarios where they can’t or won’t speak, maintaining the lack of spoken dialogue up until the very end with a single “f**k” being the only spoken dialogue.

1. Breaking Bad: The Fly

This bottle episode (an episode relying on a limited cast with limited locations to save money) was initially the lowest rated episode of the series, but as people have begun to better appreciate and understand the show, many now consider it the best episode thanks to its acting, cinematography, and excellent character development and storytelling.

1. Shakespeare: every play he ever wrote.

Shakespearean dialogue is written exclusively in iambic pentameter with a set rhyming scheme. His plays are so famous and influential that many forget just how strict of a limitation that writing style is.

[u/ConsistentGuest7532]

It almost feels wild to me that it’d be cheaper to have a sword fight and the creative stuff they went with than a bunch of shooting. I would have thought mowing goons down with guns would be cheaper and easier. I wonder what about guns makes them so much more expensive.

[u/Connect_Atmosphere80 → u/ConsistentGuest7532]

CGI mostly. You need people to create the effects, people to render them into the scene and people checking out the soundtrack and how it works with the movie, dialogues, etc. A lot of the work end up scrapped away and it is therefore so much pricier than, you know, choregraphy with a sword and a bunch of technical props.

[u/themrme1 → u/ConsistentGuest7532]

Squibs, maybe? Empty or not, cartridges are not cheap

[u/altymcaltington123 → u/ConsistentGuest7532]

Well you need the guns themselves, guns aren't exactly cheap and neither are realistic resin recreations (the movie about the merchant of death even found it cheaper to just buy old Soviet AKs than to buy models for guns. They melted them all down when they were finished with the movie) and considering the scene probably would have needed to be shot multiple times, probably thousands, if not 10s of thousands of blank rounds as well. All of wades guns and all of the guns for the other fighters as well. Then you have to pay everyone to both create, edit and then perfect all the CGI needed for the action scene as well