Passion Projects

Guess what happened to the girls.

Love projects or better yet known as passion projects are products of love obviously. If something is dictated with care, even for all they done, then it's passion.

The picture above is Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Gen Urobuchi. He always wanted to create Magical Girls anime with a more realistic touch. May I tell you that the endings change frequently, especially the third episode? The anime is a deconstruction or a Faustian anime. Geothe's Faust is one of my favorite legends.

Another is Kung Fu Panda, Dreamworks. Unlike Shrek or HTTYD, the writers know what they are doing with philosophy and martial arts. The Chinese philosophy in this are as close as doing it for art. It's A:TLA in movie form. A:TLA have so much research put into it that KFP can be put in for its reverence of Asian culture. There are a total of six films and it's planned. The HTTYD have twelve books, but I highly doubt that they will follow the process since they deviated. KFP have too much precise care in it, not since Prince of Egypt.

Sherlock, Moffat and Gatiss, is declared one of the best adaptations yet. Many already point out the development of everything. The stories are a mix of different cases, something already done. The writers admitted that as well, but they revere the source material so much that lines from the books are dialogue. Even more so than Doctor Who, it's one of their best works to date.

It's not as epic as you think it would be.

 Sometimes, there are passion projects that utterly fails. Epically.

The obvious one is the picture there. Yeah, The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan called it his Magnum Opus. People beg to differ, doubting him as an actual fan of the series. If you are a fan, you would keep to the original, right? Purist I am not, but even I know that fans that love something would keep to the spirit even when telling from a different angle. He literally told the story in a way that he thinks should be told. Worshipping the Fire Nation in which instead of Chinese culture but Indian (see the palaces, wardrobe!), deliberately no martial arts and gibberish (I'm part Chinese, but even I can tell that's no Chinese!), it's an offense to fans of the series, martial artists, and races.

The Room. Tommy Wiseau literally put every effort into this, getting a stage play, novel, and movie. I still recommend this movie. Its badness is already been put together by many reviewers, so I don't have to add much.

Look at Tigress, Po. You still have your Love Chunk.

Apologies if there is only one example, but I'm not exactly sure I wanted to add The Brown Bunny and Trash Humpers.

There are passion projects, well-made or horrible. Spielberg is trying to get an Evangelion film into the Hollywood silver screen. Jackson's Hobbit Trilogy would been called a passion project too.

All in all, passion projects are still one of the best the arthouse of media can give us.