Power/Rangers gritty 14-min short-film from Adi Shankar - Page 3

*Turo602* · 03-01-2015, 01:53 AM

The White Ranger vs Scorpion was not gritty... It was just two guys fighting and one of them dying. It was easily PG-13 content. Besides, that fight was Saban approved, otherwise he wouldn't have done it.

*sdp* · 03-01-2015, 02:11 PM

I meant to say violent and not gritty when describing the Scoprion vs White Ranger fight. And yes it is since White Ranger kills scorpion by stabbing him in the face and the alternate ending is even worse with Scorpion impaling him and blood scatters everywhere. Don't get me wrong that fight was actually well done and much more in the spirit of both PRs and MK. It's just a bit hypocritical for JDF to be so against it when he did something violent as well with PRs. Though I agree with JDF in this case.

*Turo602* · 03-02-2015, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by sdp

I meant to say violent and not gritty when describing the Scoprion vs White Ranger fight. And yes it is since White Ranger kills scorpion by stabbing him in the face and the alternate ending is even worse with Scorpion impaling him and blood scatters everywhere. Don't get me wrong that fight was actually well done and much more in the spirit of both PRs and MK. It's just a bit hypocritical for JDF to be so against it when he did something violent as well with PRs. Though I agree with JDF in this case.

It's still very much PG-13. There's nothing hypocritical about it.

*plastroncafe* · 03-02-2015, 05:07 PM

Some great quotes from director Joseph Kahn from Comic Book Resources via The Mary Sue:

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I can’t front that I’m a fan of Power Rangers. Most people when they do projects always say they’re fans but 90% are lying just to please the fans. I was already shaving in 1993 when Power Rangers came out. It was aimed at 12 year olds. I would have been weird as **** if I was going into clubs raving about a reappropriated Sentai show for kids. I would have never gotten laid (which I didn’t anyway so what did it matter). It was an interesting experiment to play with reboot culture and tone control. When I finally made it I was fully invested in the characters and the property but I didn’t come into it to please a fan base, per se, but to experiment with pop culture.

and

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In POWER/RANGERS [I] was making a point about the ratings system. The people who want me to tone this down and make this a “PG-13″ version – you know how I do that? Take out a few ****s and take out the blood when there’s a gunshot. That’s it. And suddenly everyone would have their kid friendly PG-13. But what exactly is that? The absurdity is people will accept this very short as entertainment for kids as long as you show guns are bloodless and people just kind of fall down when they get hit. This is a weird hypocricy of the ratings system, commercial necessity rather than a moral one. Even before PG-13 was invented a PG film like RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK would show that guns, when shot at someone, would blow blood off his head into the lens. So this film is a response to that and making a more honest depiction of this sort of violent entertainment. To get a PG-13 all I have to do is cut our the cursing, keep the killings but just sanitize them. And no tits.

http://www.themarysue.com/joseph-kha...power-rangers/

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.co...sial-fan-film/

Duke Nukem · 03-05-2015, 11:40 PM

I just found out about this a couple days ago. I wasn't ever really a Power Rangers fan. I watched the first season when I was 11 or 12 and decided I was too old for it after that and seen maybe a half dozen other random episodes throughout its run, and haven't seen any of the movies.

I thought this was nothing short of amazing. After reading about the circumstances of its creation, I'm disappointed that this won't continue. I think it's good for at least one hypothetical season if Saban weren't opposed to it. Rita could escape, and then an entire season of Spartacus style revenge as Tommy tries to hunt down and murder her, combined with some flashbacks that flesh out their world more and allow the other rangers to appear. I'm sure Tommy's alcoholism and what has to be some type of PTSD would play a big part as well. Hell, write it in some way where Rita isn't directly responsible for Kimberly's death, find someone else in the PR universe who is, and then that's a second season right there.

03-01-2015, 01:53 AM	#41
Turo602 The King of Kings Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Chicago Illinois Posts: 2,931	The White Ranger vs Scorpion was not gritty... It was just two guys fighting and one of them dying. It was easily PG-13 content. Besides, that fight was Saban approved, otherwise he wouldn't have done it. __________________

03-01-2015, 02:11 PM	#42
sdp Detoxed Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tokio, Italy Posts: 11,222	I meant to say violent and not gritty when describing the Scoprion vs White Ranger fight. And yes it is since White Ranger kills scorpion by stabbing him in the face and the alternate ending is even worse with Scorpion impaling him and blood scatters everywhere. Don't get me wrong that fight was actually well done and much more in the spirit of both PRs and MK. It's just a bit hypocritical for JDF to be so against it when he did something violent as well with PRs. Though I agree with JDF in this case. __________________ *Trapt* *urself Page MiscRave!!!* Click to join The Drome Discord server

03-05-2015, 11:40 PM	#45
Duke Nukem Hench Mutant Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 272	I just found out about this a couple days ago. I wasn't ever really a Power Rangers fan. I watched the first season when I was 11 or 12 and decided I was too old for it after that and seen maybe a half dozen other random episodes throughout its run, and haven't seen any of the movies. I thought this was nothing short of amazing. After reading about the circumstances of its creation, I'm disappointed that this won't continue. I think it's good for at least one hypothetical season if Saban weren't opposed to it. Rita could escape, and then an entire season of Spartacus style revenge as Tommy tries to hunt down and murder her, combined with some flashbacks that flesh out their world more and allow the other rangers to appear. I'm sure Tommy's alcoholism and what has to be some type of PTSD would play a big part as well. Hell, write it in some way where Rita isn't directly responsible for Kimberly's death, find someone else in the PR universe who is, and then that's a second season right there.