Jack the Giant Slayer
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
Sombre, breathless, extreme fantasy / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
Our read · Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive fantasy · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Jack the Giant Slayer
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