have you ever wondered what goes into
your favorite stories and worlds
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for this video we're looking at the
entire process of building a world from
scratch from the author taking notes to
the costume department of a movie
adaptation I got a real treat the
quintessential example of world-building
is JRR Tolkien's middle-earth where the
Lord of the Rings takes place but you
could make a case for earlier works
being made up fictional universes of
their own mythologies like the Greeks
and Romans developed could arguably be
considered a shared world as could be
England that King Arthur reigned over
that romantic fodder of so many poems
and stories from across Europe but a
fictional universe is the brainchild of
a singular person certainly does date
back to Tolkien and has only become more
proliferate in the last century as far
as creating one goes Tolkien literally
wrote the book and he left very large
shoes to fill
a good fictional universe has to have
good lore but this doesn't mean it's
necessary to spend years beforehand
coming up with history's side characters
rules and maps it's possible to come up
with a rich universe after already
developing the bones of the story you
want to tell and often you can tell that
new layers are being added to a big
franchise the longer they go on the
original Star Wars trilogy wasn't
created with full exact outlines for the
prequel and sequel trilogies in mind but
it's not the lack of 70s foresight that
makes those movies good or bad these
aren't the droids
similarly the sprawling world of the MCU
was not planned out in its entirety in a
room by Kevin Feige in the days leading
up to iron man what's going on in you
Tony
you can't afford to be this naive when I
was naive before when they said here's
the line we don't cross it this is how
we do business nobody knew exactly what
would happen an end game when the MCU
was set into motion he did exactly what
he said he was gonna do Santos wiped out
50% of all living creatures that being
said creating a rich mythology should
still be part of the process and it's
the world's themselves that make
franchises like Harry Potter Star Wars
or Star Trek so beloved one of the
things Tolkien is most famous for and
which often sets a good fictional world
apart from a great one is the creation
of fictional languages since childhood I
have been fascinated with language
obsessed with it I've invented my own
full complete languages look he studied
English literature and language at
Oxford University eventually becoming a
professor of anglo-saxon literature and
he put this knowledge of linguistics to
work when he came up with elvish tokima
knowledge in I think sucks and bounce
but elvish and its many dialects isn't
the most popular fictional language that
honor belongs to Klingon the most widely
spoken fictional language in the world
which along with high Valyrian is
available to learn as a
on duolingo JA the first smatterings of
Klingon were first sparked into being by
James Doohan a d-day veteran known
better as Star Trek's captain Montgomery
Scott and better known as Scotty any men
haven't managed such a feat I would not
dare disappoint
however the germs of what doing began
were fleshed out
organized and developed by Marc Okrand a
linguist hired to work on the third Star
Trek film which was the franchise's
first a big-screen Klingon heavy
adventure jump in pimp [ __ ] Okrand has
said that the best way to make the
Klingon language sound like real
language was to make it one people even
have wedding ceremonies and Klingon
Howard Bernadette dock Josh but you
don't need to learn another language to
understand why people love Lord of the
Rings or Star Trek away from the minds
of writers like Tolkien Martin and Lucas
universes are made whole when they reach
the silver screen and a lot more people
are involved in making them shine while
Peter Jackson was certainly able to make
the Lord of the Rings trilogy the way he
wanted there were hundreds more people
working behind the scenes multiple
people worked on the screenplay and
Fellowship of the Ring spent three years
in pre-production before filming began
during which dozens of people worked on
concept art costume design set design
and the creation of props you spend that
time refining the work and making it as
good as you can make it all of those
people are integral to the process not
to mention the actors who brought the
novel's characters to life and while
Star Wars is often held on a world
building pedestal and an example of
George Lucas's unobstructed creative
vision the original trilogy also had
multiple screenwriters in addition to
Lucas
when I left you I was but to learn now I
am the master though he did provide the
story he didn't direct Empire Strikes
Back or Return of the Jedi because the
workload of both writing and director
was too much so while we may think of
fictional universes being the property
of a single creator this is rarely the
case as the more popular a piece of
media gets the more people are involved
in bringing it to life and they all
deserve recognition no feel your destiny
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but just because something isn't the
product of one person's creative vision
doesn't make it any less valid the MCU
isn't bad because it isn't the work of
one single writer director in fact
that's rare even through its comic book
source material innumerable writers have
also done wonders for the Cthulhu Mythos
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yeah all the tropes and themes of the
mythos were created by HP Lovecraft even
during Lovecraft's lifetime he
encouraged his writer friends to
liberally use his creations if they
wanted and a lot of them did Lovecraft's
bigotry has left an unpleasant legacy
but today diverse and marginalized
writers latch on to the Cthulhu Mythos
and keep it alive and thriving far more
than Lovecraft ever did only 12 of his
short stories are actually counted in
the official mythos while a fictional
universe can be vast and exciting if
only one person has worked on it it
takes an army to realize the depth and
scope of middle-earth The Wizarding
World Westeros and that galaxy far far
away
and that's how a fictional universe is
created
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