Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-8284722-20141202185718/@comment-8284722-20141208011243

THERE you are! I've been wondering where everyone (except Eric) is!

All right, here goes. For the concept, I didn't really change anything. The "Friendship is True Power" thing is more related to the second half of Part II, not the first, and I'll be emphasizing it there. Part I, meanwhile, was more about bonds (you can see in the comments of the first thread that that is going to be the main theme). The reason why home is the major theme in this movie is to show what home truly means. Sure Naruto has friends. But the village still ostracizes him. Still thinks he's a demon. Still etc. And when he comes home from his training, he doesn't really feel it, and continues that way for most of the film. Then comes the Invasion of Pain. And that's when everyone realizes just how important Naruto is to them and the world, just like how Iruka realized how important Naruto was to him when getting cornered by Mizuki. And when Naruto comes back home again, even with the village leveled, there is an environment that sees him as a hero. At that moment he's finally home. As for Jiraiya's battle with Pain, Jiraiya didn't even have much appearances during these chapters. There was the beginning of Kazekage Rescue, then Itachi Pursuit, but other than that there really was nothing. Although for the record, I always saw Iruka and Kakashi as more fathers and Jiraiya as more of a grandfather considering the "Granny" of Naruto's life (though now that I think about it, the age difference between Naruto and Jiraiya is about the same as the one between me and my dad, LOL.)

As I mentioned, this is the one where arcs tend to not relate to each other. Let's go over each film. For the first, they pretty much were in-line, just that Land of Waves was a black sheep. For this film, they don't connect that much, so I started devising the plot devices you can see above. The third film, though, will be fully connected, and everything will be fine. And no, the third film is not all about Sasuke. It's all about the war. The flashbacks are done for length, and it will only really be done for things that either aren't experienced by Naruto himself (thus why I chose the Jiraiya vs. Pain thing) or aren't as important as something that happened simultaneously (so Invasion over Senjutsu). For the hero-killer thing, that is to get the message across. Naruto will be going through more and more and more pain. Just goes to show how brutal the thing is. But remember: Jiraiya's death started everything. He's also what bonds Naruto and Nagato. And it's ultimately his teachings that save Konoha. So yeah, he'll be plenty more important. As for schizophrenia - no, I'm not mental and neither are the characters. I really don't see the analogy you're trying to make.

For the Hinata thing, I just don't want people hanging. We had to wait approximately 262 weeks just for Naruto to give an answer. No one needs that. I kinda ranted about it a bit though, sorry.

For overall: if you haven't already noticed, not every inkblot is getting featured. So what if it's a fanwank; isn't that what EVERY FRIGGIN' ADAPTATION OF ANYTHING IS??? As I said in the previous thread, I'm not having 20 stories at my disposal; I have six for the first film and five for the others, making it (if math helps - does it in this case?) four times easier. As for the Sea of Monsters film - oh NOOOOOOOO, if I was that inaccurate, I'd lose every fan in the book! (it sure ticked me off, and I would never want that for a film based on my works)