#bagiński

[stuff-diary]

Knights of the Zodiac

Movies watched in 2023

Knights of the Zodiac (2023, USA/Japan)

Director: Tomek Bagiński

Writers: Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken & Kiel Murray (based on the manga by Masami Kurumada)

Mini-review:

This isn't as bad as some people say, but it isn't good either, that's for sure. The whole time I was watching it, I kept thinking it would have made a pretty good TV show. However, with a runtime of less than 2 hours, both the plot and the character arcs felt completely rushed and undeserving of their final resolutions. It also doesn't help that the movie takes itself way too seriously. But there are good things too. All the action scenes are impressive and the CGI is pretty solid, considering it didn't have a super huge budget or anything. And most importantly, the cast does a great job, and its obvious these actors elevate the material and save it from disaster. Mackenyu is as charming and charismatic as always, and he makes it clear once again that he was born to be an action movie star. And of course, Famke Janssen and Sean Bean deliver the quality anyone would expect from veterans like them. To sum up, Knights of the Zodiac has its strengths, but it left me feeling like it couldn't even begin to tap into its potential.

[tneql]

One of the producer of the Witcher Netflix series - **Tomasz Bagiński - **has blamed it's plummeting viewership on Americans being too stupid to understand politics... and TikTok.

And not, of course, on the show's complete disregard for the books deeply entrenched lore, their terrible and directionless writing offer 3 seasons, and being so bad at their job that it causes their leading actor - Henry Cavill - to depart the project.

I wish I was joking, BTW. Holy crap @ the 2nd one.

FYI, there is absolutely no researched evidence to back up the claim that technology reduces attention spans or that they've fallen of at all.

Or that Americans are "stupid."

It's an utterly baseless myth spouted by cynical old people who want to bitch about "the kids."

What's actually happening there is that many impoverished Americans can't actually AFFORD higher or level education due to income inequality.

This leads to an imbalance in the number of people ABLE to access education and progress into a comfortable adult life. The idea that an entire country of people are just "stupid" is the stupidest mindset imaginable.

[cinemaquiles]

CAVALEIROS DO ZODÍACO: SAINT SEIYA O COMEÇO (2023) O PIOR FILME DO ANO!

[hanzajesthanza]

All I can say is: Mind positively blown!! You are getting an honorary degree in Witcher studies for this, right? RIGHT???

oh man! thank you!! honestlyyyy i wish i could get a real degree in witcher studies—or, well, i mean pursue this kind of research as a focus of an academic study. i mean, i would like to go to grad school one day… well, it’s a little dream ok 😂

all the people who wrote the journal articles and essays i’ve looked at, who created all the literature looking into polish speculative fiction (and ofc specifically the witcher), are like role models to me, even though i had to read most of their work through google translate and DeepL 😭

Zbigniew Wałaszewski, “Wiedźmin: pierwszy polski supersystem rozrywkowy” in Obraz literatury w komunikacji społecznej po roku ‘89

EVERYONE involved in Wiedźmin: polski fenomen popkultury (Wrocław University) but especially Paulina Drewniak’s “Are we there yet?” and Anna Wróblewska’s “Jak napisać bestseller?”

Adam Flamma, (who was also published in the previous, but moreso for) Wiedźmin: historia fenomenu, which is just so comprehensive as a resource it’s hard to not cite in everything

Anna Michalska’s thesis, Otherness and Intertextuality in The Witcher (Utrecht University)

and some magazine articles (that are more essay- than article-like):

Dominika Materska and Ewa Popiołek, “Trzy gra Sapkowskiego” (Nowa Fantastyka, (143) 1994)

Agnieszka Fulińska, “Basń, która ocala” (Tygodnik Powszechny, (29) 1999)

agnieszka fulińska is also kind of a freaking legend because she did the first ever known translation of “the witcher” (hers was “the hexer”) short story into english—as part of a project between ŚKF and superNOWA in 2000 to translate polish authors into english… also tomasz bagiński (yes, the same tomasz as the one we know from platige image and netflix) did the cover and illustrations for this).

also, these aren’t “witcher”, specifically, but related topics:

Stanisław Krawczyk’s “Popular Authors in Search of Recognition” (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

Piotr Siuda, “In Pursuit of Pop Culture” (Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz)

so like… it is something people do professionally, academically, so it’s a dream that is perhaps one day possible…

however, there are two necessary precursor accomplishments that need to happen before anything happens on this front:

>learn polish

>become financially stable

… each one is as hard as the other 😂

[erualthewild]

Joey Batey in 

Joey Batey i Tomek Bagiński oceniają fanarty | Wiedźmin | Netflix

[whereisyourpippinnow]

Winter Sports Secret Santa 🎅🎄🎁

Welcome to the Winter Sports Secret Santa, 2022 edition, hohoho! 🎅

It’s fifth edition of Secret Santa! Fourth edition was organized by @vierschanzentournee and she extended it to other wintersports. I decided to continue it this year. I hope, that not only Ski Jumping family join, and we will have many Secret Santas and many nice gifts.

So, Fifth edition of Secret Santa include:

Ski jumping

Cross-country skiing

Nordic combined

Biathlon

Alpine skiing

Freestyle skiing

Snowboarding

What can you create/receive:

Gifset (at least one set of at least 6 gifs)

Fanfiction (at least 600 words)

Fanvideo or fanmix (fanvideo no less than 4minutes long, fanmix no less than 10 songs)

Fanart (at least one fanart. dimensions 540px x 810px or comparable)

Icons/wallpapers/screenlocks (at least 9 icons or 4 wallpapers/screenlocks)

Important Dates:

27.11.2022 - SIGN-UPS OPEN 30.11.2022 - SIGN-UPS CLOSED 01.12.2022 - I will send all participants their Giftees 24.12.2022, 19:00 CET - GIFTS REVEAL

You will have almost 24 days to create your gift. It's much more than in the other years 😉😉

24.12.2022, 19:00 CET - You post your gift! Don't forget to @/mention and tag your Giftee. And tag your post with tags: #wsss2022 and #skijumpingsecretsanta so other people can see it.

Important:

Reblog this post and tag it as #wsss2022 and #skijumpingsecretsanta -  If you won’t reblog it, I won’t sign you in! /like doesn't count/ If you don't want to participate, you can reblog it anyway - more people will see this post then

Fill the survey - link in the tags.

Keep your ask box open (and optionally allow anonymous messages) so me and your Secret Santa will be able to message you!

Feel free to send anonymous messages to your giftee before posting your gift! Little compliments, question, something to keep them in good mood before the 24th of December. If you want to contact your Secret Santa, just let me know 😁

Respect the commitment you’ve made to the exchange. There’s nothing more disappointing than a Giftee receiving no gift, and no idea as to why. If you can’t finish your gift, message me ASAP!

If you know You won’t be able to make your gift till 24.12. 19:00 CET - let your Giftee know. Send them message that you’ll be late, it means a lot!

Remember that you can schedule your post (if you know that you may be busy 24.12)

If you think you’re not talented enough and will make ugly/not worthy gift - you’re wrong! You don’t have to be next Vincent van Gogh/Ron Howard/ Tomasz Bagiński/JRR Tolkien/Steve McCurry to create beautiful fanart/fanvideo/GIFset/Fanfiction/phtograph. 😁

If you have any questions - my askbox is open 😉😉

LINK TO THE SURVEY

[artistmagicial]

Kurpiowska Wycinanka

[saintseiya-zone]

Knights of the Zodiac

Interview with Tomek Bagiński, by JBox. Here are some snippets where he describes Kurumada's involvement in the project and the feedback received after releasing the trailers

Source: PT-BR (original), ENG

[facepalming-since-chernobyl]

https://fandomwire.com/the-witcher-producers-wanted-henry-cavill-out-since-season-2-as-he-didnt-respect-them-for-being-anti-source-material/

...tell me you want the show to fail without telling me.

What can I say, they made Eskel a fucking ENT, friend, after seeing that i lost all hope for this show and I can asure you, at the end of season one my expectations were really LOW. And they still managed to fuck it.

My hopes were high for this franchise but it's unfortunatelly crap. I didn't even touch the Blood Origin or however this shit is called.

Cavill was the only good thing in this show in s2. I was wary when he was introduced as Geralt, because he seriously didn't fit the image of the character I had in my head, but his enthusiasm and devotion really made a difference and he was (almost) perfect in the role.

But the producers, sweet Jesus, the producers. Lauren Hissrich has zero idea what to do with lore and source material. ZERO. And I'm super bitter about Tomek Bagiński, because he should have known better.

I know Sapkowski's The Witcher is maybe not the highest fantasy literature, but it's complex, well written, the world building maybe is not super duper descirbed but is good as a whole and the characters save the story anyway. It's fun. It still approaches issues that are not so well represented in modern fantasy. It's funny. It has that sarcastic Polish sense of humor that makes fun of the so called slavicness. And it was ALL LOST because the skurwysyny don't. respect. the. lore.

I'm super sorry for Henry, becasue it's obvuious he really wanted this role and he was enjoying it very much in s1. But seriously good for him he left this shit.

[kierunekkreatywny]

KTR Hall od Fame - Piotr Sikora, Jarosław Sawko i Tomasz Bagiński

[bagiomnich]

Kiedy byłem mały, mówię już o latach najmłodszych, widziałem wiele razy jak mój dziadek Konrad Bagiński spluwa na ziemię. Wracał z dużą, dwuręczną kosą z pola i idąc pochyłym pagórkiem prowadzącym do jego domu, spluwał na ziemię. Widziałem jak mój tata Bogusław Bagiński podczas pracy, pracy w upale, zalany potem, prostował się, przecierał czoło i spluwał na ziemię. Widziałem jak moi starsi kuzyni Tomasz Bagiński i Marcin Bagiński wracają ze szkoły i na ostatniej prostej do domu, idąc pod górę, spluwają na ziemię. Marcin często przy tym wtaczał rower pod ten pagórek. To plucie zawsze wyrażało dla mnie coś większego. Była w nim jakaś manifestacja. Określało ono majestat osoby. Wyrażało jej potęgę. Między opuszczeniem ust przez ślinę, a jej zetknięciem z ziemią, czas stawał w miejscu. Plucie było zawsze powiązane z pracą lub podróżą i z kimś większym ode mnie. Nikt nie spluwał tak po prostu, robili to wszak mechanicznie, nie jako performens. Nie spluwały też nigdy kobiety. Ja nie potrafiłem tak pluć, moja ślina była zbyt rozpierzchła, zbyt dziecięca, rozchodziła się na boki, nie posiadała tej konsystencjonalności bytu. Niewątpliwie położenie naszego domostwa na stromym pagórku, sprzyjało heroizmowi plucia. Kiedy wyobrażam sobie Syzyfa wpychającego głaz na górę, wyobrażam sobie go plujące. Plucie jest ukoronowaniem egzystencji. W zasadzie, tak jak w przypadku Syzyfa, cała ta praca, cała ta droga, całe to życie, do niczego innego nie prowadzi jak tylko do tego splunięcia.

[emzeciorrr]

Pan Samochodzik i Templariusze - VFX breakdown, Chimney from Chimney by Edisen on Vimeo.

VFX Supervisor - Marcin Drabiński CG & Virtual Production Lead - Miron Błocki Producent VFX i Postprodukcji obrazu - Zuzanna Hencz 

Koordynacja Postprodukcji obrazu: - Justyna Juszczyk Koordynacja VFX - Agata Ząbecka Supervisorzy na planie - Miron Błocki, Marcin Drabiński, Jakub Petruk, Tomasz Tejchman Modeling - Tomasz Witkowski, Jan Gawałkiewicz Layout - Temirlan Uakassov, Marek Głatki Look Development - Mateusz Bargiel, Miron Błocki, Mateusz Gajewski, Jakub Petruk, Tomasz Witkowski VFX - Marek Głatki, Jakub Petruk Animacja 3D - Miron Błocki, Mateusz Gajewski, Marek Głatki Unreal Engine Artist - Roman Proń Compositng Lead - Tomasz Tejchman Compositing - Jan Białek, Janusz Budzyn, Jakub Petruk, Roman Proń, Uladzislau Peralyhin, Wojciech Świątkiewicz, Piotr Dismas Zdanowicz

DI Supervisor - Ireneusz Dąbrowski, Jakub Sokołowski Kolorkorekcja Obrazu - Wiktor Sasim Data Wrangler - Krzysztof Golon

Pipeline TD - Wojciech Janiszewski, Piotr Bagiński

[hardly-remember-what-i-have-read]

First thing i managed to read in this ear was short novel "The Cathedral" by Jacek Dukaj for my polish lesson. I forgot abt it, so Ive done speed run of reading 50 pages just before class.

Its sci-fi, really good i think. I like vibe of it, used langage is kinda typical for this genre (so I enjoyed it, at first u dont understed half of that but after few pages its starting to make sense, actually).

"The main hero comes on a planetoid, where a “cathedral” was built to commemorate a death of a man who sacrificed himself so others would live. He is treated like a saint. The hero, sent by The Church, has to decide if the miracles were real, and if he should be called a saint. The Church is running out of time. The planetoid is on a way to “doom”."- short description that I copied for internet bc im too tired to write this on my own. Oh, and the main character is priest btw, it really makes his point of view somehow deeper.

And in 2000 was created short animation by Tomasz Bagiński inspired by Dukaj's novel, it was fully created with computers technology and also was nominated for Oscar. If someone wants to watch, heres link to animation, just few minuts, but its interesting: https://youtu.be/lrCN2dLFf5Y?si=sYdGVVHyULQyzXTT

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 4.5 / 10

Título Original: Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac

Año: 2023

Duración: 112 min

País: Japón

Dirección: Tomasz Bagiński

Guion: Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken, Kiel Murray. Manga: Masami Kurumada

Música: Yoshihiro Ike

Fotografía: Tomasz Naumiuk

Reparto: Mackenyu Arata, Madison Iseman, Famke Janssen, Diego Tinoco, Sean Bean, Mark Dacascos, Nick Stahl, David Torok

Productora: Coproducción Japón-Estados Unidos-Hungría; Toei Animation, Sony Pictures, Toei, Sola Entertainment, Hero Squared, Stage 6 Films

Género: Action; Adeventure; Drama

TRAILER:

[vfxexpress]

Knights of the Zodiac - VFX Breakdown by Orca Studios

Knights of the Zodiac, known in Japan as Saint Seiya: The Beginning (Japanese: 聖闘士星矢 The Beginning, Hepburn: Seinto Seiya Za Biginingu), is a 2023 fantasy action film directed by Tomek Bagiński from a screenplay by Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken, and Kiel Murray, based on the manga Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada. Knights of the Zodiac was released in Japan on April 28, 2023, and in the United…