Week 9 Story Planning: An Eye for an Eye, but Cuter

It is somewhat important to note that this story planning will spoil a major part of the film Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos 2016).

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So next week I will be retelling the story of "The Blind Bride". The story goes as follows: Dedrash, Pandu's brother, has been born blind due to the situation of his birth. When he marries, his wife decides to support him by covering her eyes, never to see again.

When I read this story, it reminded me of an indie film that was released a year or so ago to much critical acclaim. It's story is far more complicated, but basically, love has been institutionalized to the point were if you do not get married, you will be turned into an animal of your choice. The cathc is that in order to marry someone, you must share a significant personal feature, such as both being excellent swimmers. The idea is that you two will "match" better.

Anyway cutting to the end of the film, the main character couple wants to marry each other. Previously they had shared a love for reading, but The female had been forcibly blinded by the villain of the story in order to prevent her from marrying the guy. In order to fix things, the guys blinds himself with a sharp knife so that they can marry.

There is a clear similarity here, and I want to mesh the two stories into one.

My plan is to use the strange world of Lobster and the stand alone narrative of the chapter of the Mahabharata to create a new unique tale.

Reading notes: Epified Mahabharata part B

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The Epified Mahabharata:
Time for the second set of episodes!

I can not emphasize enough how useful these "Catch up" intros are.

So Gunti can call god's down to ...make her with child... Seems a bit overpowered, wow.

I completely missed the origin of the Pandavas in the original reading. It is a lot easier to understand the complicated story in video form.

She DROPPED HER BABY! Hold up, that is insane. I know he turned out fine since he is the sin of a god, but seriously...

Where in the world did this story of 100 vat born children get thought up, it is bizarre to think about how someone thought of this.

So they had 100 ugly children. The way they treat this in the story is kind of hilarious.

The attempted betrayal of the Pandavas is even more grizzly seeing visually that they are all just young kids.

Some of these stories, like the snake story, seemed to have changed a bit in the animated version. i wonder if this has anything to do with different tellings, or if the creators of the animated version just wanted something more visually interesting.

I really like this version of the story where the reeds form a rope!

A fairly average young adult novel could be written about the Pandavas training days I think.

The peasant archer story is still sad, even as a cartoon.