#Tomek Baginski

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for people who actually care about basing their opinion off of all of the information instead of, idk, none or clickbaity article headlines... here is what tomasz baginski said in his interview when it comes to changing things from the books:

There is also the question of the recipient’s sensitivity. I often point this out to others [in the production team], such as how they simplify politics in the plot. We, Poles, see various political events differently because of our history and experiences. We see more nuances. Especially in the context of what is happening beyond our eastern border. We can recognize this gray area where various influences and powers flow. It is more understandable and transparent to us. For example, that this person is good and this one is bad, but also a little good, and here it’s rather gray and we understand why this good hero does some unpleasant things. We catch it in three seconds. I had the same perceptual block when I presented Hardkor 44 [a never-made variation on the Warsaw Uprising] abroad years ago and tried to explain: there was an uprising against Germany, but the Russians were across the river, and on the German side there were also soldiers from Hungary or Ukraine. For Americans, it was completely incomprehensible, too complicated, because they grew up in a different historical context, where everything was arranged: America is always good, the rest are the bad guys. And there are no complications. When a series is made for a huge mass of viewers, with different experiences, from different parts of the world, and a large part of them are Americans, these simplifications not only make sense, they are necessary. It’s painful for us, and for me too, but the higher level of nuance and complexity will have a smaller range, it won’t reach people. Sometimes it may go too far, but we have to make these decisions and accept them.

and here is the thing he said about tiktok in an interview over a year ago when talking about s2 because for some reason we're bringing this up:

BAGINSKI: I see the fastening of the processes Jacek Dukaj wrote about in his book – "Po piśmie" ("After the script"). We resign from cause-and-effect chains, from the linear narration. This book-like narration. When it comes to shows, the younger the public is, the logic of the plot is less significant.

INTERVIEWER: What is significant, then?

BAGINSKI: Just pure emotions. A bare emotional mix. Those people grow up on TikTok, Youtube, they jump from a video to video...

INTERVIEWER: You're talking to such person.

BAGINSKI: So, it's time to be serious: Dear children, what you do to yourself makes you less resilient for longer content, for long and complicated chains of cause an effect.

INTERVIEWER: You're talking about something else that's hidden between your words. What you mean is that you don't know how to make a show kids'd like to watch.

BAGINSKI: Generally, I try to know what people react to and like to watch. Long and complex narratives will remain, it'll be like a classic shelf in a bookstore. People will still read that, it will be popular at some point. But the edge of the mass audience is moving a bit into the a less linear narration, less cohesive one. I think it's inevitable. As reading is not natural for the human brain.

INTERVIEWER: Yep, you gotta learn it, it's hard.

BAGINSKI: Oh, in this sense, yes. You need a lot of effort to learn to recognise all these symbols. You probably don't remember that. If you're a genius, you read when you're 3. It's some big effort for your brain, moreover, it's not natural. The things we receive with our heads... There's nothing literary there. We have to learn literature. Learn to receive it and write it. It's like mathematics, a lot of abstract symbols you have to learn to recognise. People who understand it will remain, the people who work on narration, they have to work on texts. But, more and more people won't need it. Why write if I can record or say it? Why write if I can receive emotions in a different way. It's a controversial thesis. When Dukaj published it, there was a lot of arguments like: "But I still read! My friends, too!" However, we talk about trends in a scale.

INTERVIEWER: Yeah, it's not about you or your friend.

BAGINSKI: We talk about global trends. The success of TikTok wouldn't be possible without that. It's happening. It's just easier to watch and click, watch another one, than read a book and follow all those twists and plots. We'll see how it goes. I think The Witcher is safe for now, there are still a few more years... Maybe it's because of the generation.

in either case, it’s pretty obvious he’s not blaming ~*~the fans~*~ for the changes the show made to the books but talking about how american/western media is made and younger audiences who grew up on social media in general.

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Knights of the Zodiac

Phoenix Nero illustration by Tomek Baginski

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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.

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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.

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Knights of the Zodiac Trailer

Knights of the Zodiac is a live action adaptation of Masami Kurumada’s manga series Saint Seiya and the anime Saint Seiya. Seiya is a teen who fights for cash while searching for his abducted sister. “When one of his fights unwittingly taps into mystical powers he never knew he had, Seiya finds himself thrust into a world of warring saints, ancient magical training and a reincarnated goddess who needs his protection. If he’s to survive, he will need to embrace his destiny and sacrifice everything to take his rightful place among the Knights of the Zodiac.” (Sony Pictures)

Knights of the Zodiac stars Mackenyu, Famke Janssen, Madison Iseman, Diego Tinoco, Mark Dacascos, Nick Stahl, and Sean Bean. The film is directed by Tomek Baginski from a screenplay by Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken and Kiel Murray.

Knights of the Zodiac hits theaters on May 12, 2023.

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BW's Daily Video & Article LInk> The Witcher Showrunners Keep Digging That Hole

BW's Daily Video & Article LInk> The Witcher Showrunners Keep Digging That Hole

Catch more from The Critical Drinker on YouTube When it comes to the current crop of shows doing everything it can to tick off their fans, The Witcher seems to be near the top of the list. I’m not even a fan of the franchise and I can see everything going wrong. First they chased off Henry Cavill for wanting to be accurate to the books, then tried to say he was hard to work with (which failed)…

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body horror should be less ableism and more whatever the fuck this polish short film, Katedra, has going on

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Tomek Baginski, executive producer on... https://www.xtremeservers.com/blog/the-witcher-producer-blames-americans-and-social-media-for-netflix-series-simplified-plot/?feed_id=84492&_unique_id=64cb0b6fd2d9b&The%20Witcher%20producer%20blames%20Americans%20and%20social%20media%20for%20Netflix%20series%27%20simplified%20plot

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Tl;dr:

The viewers wanted a genuine adaptation of the books, and the writers wanted to make a genuine adaptation of the books. But the producers assumed that americans and tiktok addicts would refuse to watch anything with complex politics, deep characters, or like, coherent or logical storylines, so they dumbed it down as hard as they could and defaulted to meaningless spectacle.

They assumed that this would attract a huge global audience, but instead all the people who showed up for the first season because it initially looked promising just didn't bother to come back for seasons 2 or 3. And now Cavil, the one good thing about the show, is gone so season 4 has basically no prospects.

Of course, none of the producers will ever admit that they fucked the dog here. They just go on and on about how butchering the story is "necessary" in order to reach wider audiences, and blame children and americans specifically for "forcing" them to ruin it.

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tomek baginski (producer) speaking about the table read on his fb!!

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okay, granted, i'm only going off of redanian intelligence's article (although that appears to be what every other article is based off of, so~) but did everyone who's complaining about what tomek baginski said even read what he said at all. because nowhere did he blame american audiences and the fans for the changes the show made from the books and his comments were more about american media and how in general it does tend to have a much more simplified black and white moralistic view of things and the show losing some of the nuances from the books due to that and trying to appeal to a broader audience.

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Sienna (Athena)

Illustrated by Tomek Baginski

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Tomek Baginski, diretor do filme Os Cavaleiros do Zodíaco - Saint Seiya: O Começo, compartilhou outra página do storyboard da primeira versão do roteiro.

Fonte: https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0W7ehRvBxTThMVuYxC6R69XwmD75mKRC2JaNpX8zvf3mDzK6zs37ySdiaQE8nLCuZl&id=100044640000132&mibextid=Nif5oz

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To say that Netflix's handling of the WItcher series has been a mess would be something of an understatement. The show has become a poster child for mismanagement. Of course, instead of attributing it's plummeting viewer numbers on their disrespect of the source material, their messy writing, and losing their leading actor Henry Cavill, show producer Tomasz "Tomek" Baginski has decided to blame it on Americans being too stupid to understand politics... and TikTok.

I wish I could say this was clickbait. It isn't.

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Hay Dioses entre nosotros y héroes dentro de nosotros… “Los Caballeros Del Zodiaco: Saint Seiya · El Inicio”

Basada en la sensación del anime, “Caballeros Del Zodiaco”, por primera vez se lleva a la pantalla grande la saga de Saint Seiya en acción real.

Seiya, pasa el tiempo luchando por dinero mientras busca a su hermana secuestrada. Cuando en una de sus peleas se le revelan poderes místicos que desconocía, Seiya se ve inmerso en un mundo en guerra, antiguos entrenamientos mágicos y una diosa reencarnada que necesita su protección. Si quiere sobrevivir, tendrá que sacrificarlo todo para ocupar el lugar que le corresponde entre los Caballeros del Zodiaco.

Estreno: 27 de abril de 2023 en Cines.

La película está dirigida por Tomek Baginski y protagonizada por Mackenyu, Famke Janssen, Madison Iseman, Diego Tinoco, Mark Dacascos, Nick Stahl, Sean Bean, entre otros.

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