Yuletide Reveal
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przedYuletide reveal was almost a week ago, but I'm just now finding time to post about the stories I wrote this year. I wrote two, a main assignment and a pinch hit.
The main assignment was for Bullet Train, a ridiculously fun action film. Brad Pitt may be top billed, but Brian Tyree Henry and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the Twins, smart-arse English assassins, steal the show.
I love character backstories, so I decided to figure out why everyone in the film totally accepts that these two guys are twins.
Family Rules is from the POV of the foster mother who takes the boys in and forges them into a family. She let me tell the Twins' back story, but also save them from the movie's ending.
The pinch hit was for the 2016 version of The Magnificent Seven. The stars of this are Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt, but I much prefer the pairing of Ethan Hawke as sharpshooter Goodnight Robicheaux and Lee Byung-Hun as knife fighter Billy Rocks. (They are canonically together, and you can't convince me otherwise. They light each other's cigarettes! They pull each other through PTSD attacks!)
I went down a historical rabbit hole for this one, trying to figure out how a Korean dude could possibly end up in the Old West, and found all sorts of interesting side facts. (Did you know the U.S. invaded Korea in 1870?! Neither did I!)
The Destiny of Man is the first meeting of Goody and Billy, and I tried to work in all of the things I love about the characters and how they fit together.
The main assignment was for Bullet Train, a ridiculously fun action film. Brad Pitt may be top billed, but Brian Tyree Henry and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the Twins, smart-arse English assassins, steal the show.
I love character backstories, so I decided to figure out why everyone in the film totally accepts that these two guys are twins.
Family Rules is from the POV of the foster mother who takes the boys in and forges them into a family. She let me tell the Twins' back story, but also save them from the movie's ending.
The pinch hit was for the 2016 version of The Magnificent Seven. The stars of this are Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt, but I much prefer the pairing of Ethan Hawke as sharpshooter Goodnight Robicheaux and Lee Byung-Hun as knife fighter Billy Rocks. (They are canonically together, and you can't convince me otherwise. They light each other's cigarettes! They pull each other through PTSD attacks!)
I went down a historical rabbit hole for this one, trying to figure out how a Korean dude could possibly end up in the Old West, and found all sorts of interesting side facts. (Did you know the U.S. invaded Korea in 1870?! Neither did I!)
The Destiny of Man is the first meeting of Goody and Billy, and I tried to work in all of the things I love about the characters and how they fit together.
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Date: 2025-02-19 01:27 am (UTC)(I'm starting to wonder, though, when I'll get to the point where I no longer know enough fandoms requested in Yuletide to be able to participate. I feel like I'm getting there. So many C- and K-dramas I am utterly clueless about.)