TBF, Mags, you have been doing a lot of the heavylifting for the quest, so this will be in good hands.
To be clear to everyone, this is just me burning out on imagination of the quest, since my muse has been hitting me over the head a lot with so many different ideas that I just can't find myself too interested in this.
I'll still hang out here, though, since this still does have a sepcial place in my heart.
I'd like to thank you all for making this a wonderful experience while it lasted.
I'd also like to thank @Magoose, @Fluffy_serpent, and @Martin Noctis for doing so much to help prepare and write this quest. I couldn't have done it without you all.
The Olympiad with Bruce O'Brian
Directed by: Bruce O'Brian
Produced by: Bruce O'Brian, Team USA, PBS, and the US Olympic Committee
Starring: Bruce O'Brian, Team USA
If Hollywood ever failed you, or just the simple fact that if you could never find work outside of Lucasfilms or Japan, you could always count on The Olympic Committee offering to make this an annual documentary for the organization just to pay the bills.
You could totally see it happening, seeing as it aired on PBS to record-shattering numbers. You think that because of the cheapness of the documentary, your style makes you imaginative on the day, and just treating it like a film for a contest then one that would make money, or see the light of day.
Because it seems America got a win that they have not had since the End of Vietnam, and that was entirely on your shoulders that they wish to heap Praise on.
Now you were not out to make a dry documentary about the Olympic Team… no you were out to tell a story of the young men and women who wanted to be part of it. So you decided to use experimental storytelling methods that you and George sometimes talked about for linear stories, and a little bit of camera trickery, to get the whole thing to be both exciting and awesome.
You made sure everyone was an active participant in the entire. From you running with a handheld camera through the streets of LA, saying hi to everyone, to the scrimmage with Team USA that was blurring the line between cameras on the court, and cameras on the sideline, really thrusting everyone in the action.
Shirly was your favorite to shoot, because Todd came up with a way to make the Camera waterproof and still film, by placing it inside a plastic bag. You only had one shot… but you took it.
And it worked. Getting a clear picture from under the water as she dove in, and glided through the water.
And you decided to use your ability as a host to make sure that the questions during interviews were personal, but also funny, because at this point, why would they view this as anything more serious than the Olympics themselves?
It was funny when doing the second round of interviews because honestly, you managed to ask so many funny questions that made them at ease.
You had rolls of over 20 minutes of everyone just laughing at the questions because that's what was needed.
And the American public loved it. It was like seeing the humanity of the athletes, and it was certainly showing them just how much they trusted and loved, and cared about their craft.
Your craft too.
You made heroes out of everyone, but honestly, you weren't surprised that everyone pointed it to you.
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Reward: Unknown Posative Effect on the whole American Publics morale. You just captured lightning in a bottle with three superb episodes of Television.
Unknown Effect on American Performance at the Olympics.
There are rumors that every politician in California and beyond is singing to get an endorsement from you.
You may or may not have inspired other Olympic teams from other nations to do something similar.
Now good news is that it's possible to make Miyazaki like, or at least respect Bruce through different methods. Probably not going to happen anytime soon because Star Wars is definitely going to trigger the hell out of Miyazaki by making war seem like an adventure, but we can make him like us over the course of our career.
The first and probably easiest path is to have Miyazaki be more aware of Bruce's intense love and devotion for his wife and family, especially once Bruce and Carrie have kids and he's presumably a good father. The one thing Miyazaki loves and cherishes above all else is family. A major portion of his works emphasizes family of all kinds and how love brings out the best in people and makes them the most happiest and fulfilled. Miyazaki learning that Bruce loves his family and places it above all else would at least temper the worst of his greivances towards Bruce and make him understand that even though Bruce in essence has a lot of "Wrong" viewpoints, he at least treasures his family and places the family above all else, and if Bruce has a great work-life balance and is involved with his kids then it might drive it home more as Miyazaki despite loving family, was very distant with his children due to work.
Second, Miyazaki is a strong feminist and most of his films have very strong adolescent female characters. Star Wars was at the time noted as a very progressive and feminist film for having Leia be a central character whose active and dynamic instead of just waiting to be rescued. Bruce himself is also at the very least for female empowerment and likes to have his female characters in stories have agency and strong character instead of being arm candy. If Bruce makes films with lots of strong and good female main characters or leads, that may make Miyazaki come around. I actually think The Playground could be the key to changing Miyazaki's viewpoint because not only is it a film about a father connecting with his kids and supporting their sense of wonder and play but also has the fantasy adventure side feature a strong female lead saving the day would really impact him deeply.
Aside from those, films about environmentalism and anti-war would reach an accord with Miyazaki, though the first one would probably be an easier sale whereas Miyazaki may think Bruce is being shallow or insincere with the latter. It stinks that he doesn't like us, but to be fair this is kind of expected where no matter how nice Bruce is or how good of a man, there will always be some good people and great artists who just hate Bruce for irrational reasons or due to Bruce on the outside being against their values like how Mohammad Ali hates Bruce. So long as they don't actively oppose us I don't think it's the end of the world, just need to have Bruce continue to be genuine and change minds with actions and sincerity.
TBH, the most likely first step for mending that relationship and making Miyazaki at least respect Bruce professionally will be the fact that LucasFilms is extremely likely to be the only American distributor (for the next few decades) willing to release Japanese animation uncut, uncensored, and with a proper english translation...
Common Bruce O'Brian W. Man we are really becoming a living legend and a staple of American culture and we just turned legally old enough to drink; Bruce is becoming a living Forrest Gump. Looks like we made a documentary that is going to become a cornerstone of the genre, and especially your basic how to guide for ESPN sports documentaries with Bruce cementing himself as a household name and showing he's more than a one pony show and can direct lots beyond MASH. If it wasn't for our position as Lucasfilms co-owner, we'd probably have a shit ton of offers flooding in from most of the studios. As it is, really happy that this builds on our reputation and experience and can hopefully boost us to the finish line at the Olympics.
Oh and I just realized something incredible. Not only could we win Oscars next year for Best Supporting Actor and Best Film for Star Wars, but we could also and probably most definitely get an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Meaning Bruce can replicate Carrie's feat and get three Oscars in one night while Carrie gets Best Actress, giving both the O'Brians their dream duo Oscar wins the year after Carrie swept with Some Nights.
POG. Looking forward to the amazing boost to our nominal stats and us getting regular strong bonuses where even with no Omake boosts we still give grand performances. Also Magoose, what kind of acting bonus did we get from MASH season 4?
Also what are Carrie's acting and writing bonuses from Some Nights and Star Wars? Hopefully we can boost her up to near Bruce's level in acting, and she should have her athletics bonus updated to +20.
Also what are Carrie's acting and writing bonuses from Some Nights and Star Wars? Hopefully we can boost her up to near Bruce's level in acting, and she should have her athletics bonus updated to +20.
Meaning Bruce can replicate Carrie's feat and get three Oscars in one night while Carrie gets Best Actress, giving both the O'Brians their dream duo Oscar wins the year after Carrie swept with Some Nights.
Sidenote, who else thinks that Bruce will end up playing the original Japanese versions of games?
I figure it'd start because one or two were gifted to him that way, and then after he built up his collection it was just easier to keep getting them in their original language, to the point that whenever he gets roped into a Sub/Dub argument he's that one guy going "Just learn the language".
I figure it'd start because one or two were gifted to him that way, and then after he built up his collection it was just easier to keep getting them in their original language, to the point that whenever he gets roped into a Sub/Dub argument he's that one guy going "Just learn the language".
Tbf America nuked two of their cities but also to be more fair they were committing atrocities that should have and thankfully banned and were named as war crimes
It tends to mysteriously be glossed over in American public education but Japan's view of Americans as Imperialists stem more from the Convention of Kamagawa in 1854 than World War 2. Which, yeah, America essentially forced Japan to end over two hundred and twenty years of peaceful isolation and give them special economic and diplomatic privileges or they'd blow up Japanese cities.
Americans tend to think of Pearl Harbor as this mysterious thing coming out of nowhere and why would the Japanese go after them if they weren't bothering Japan or anyone else, but in East Asia much like South America things might be seen differently.
It tends to mysteriously be glossed over in American public education but Japan's view of Americans as Imperialists stem more from the Convention of Kamagawa in 1854 than World War 2. Which, yeah, America essentially forced Japan to end over two hundred and twenty years of peaceful isolation and give them special economic and diplomatic privileges or they'd blow up Japanese cities.
Americans tend to think of Pearl Harbor as this mysterious thing coming out of nowhere and why would the Japanese go after them if they weren't bothering Japan or anyone else, but in East Asia much like South America things might be seen differently.
Pearl Harbor was a response to American embargo of oil to Japan. Why did the american do that? Because the Japeneese where brutally conquering China and IndoChina and refused American ultimatums of ending the war. So in a bid to keep the warmachine going they striked the American in the hope they just give up.
Let's not forget that forcing the Japenees to opening up saved them the fate of being like Qing China and all that it contains.
