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🟩 UK Filmmaker Kai Zammit reacts and breaks down World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Cinematic Trailer, part of the Battle of Azeroth series. The quality of this, I’m basically watching a movie so let’s watch it and see what we can learn from it!!
Tensions between the Alliance and Horde have erupted, and a new age of war has begun!
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Man, I miss our faction wars! Sylvanas did nothing wrong! Only the writers did!
Sylvanas …. My queen her VA Patty Mattson is absolutely top shelf and Kai everybody and their mother KNEW it as Anduin behind that mask … nothing secret about that…
Sylvanas is the Banshee Queen, a former High Elf who died and was raised from the dead to serve the Lich King.
So Undead spirit elf.
Btw if you finish this BFA streak, the one after that World of Warcraft – Shadowlands kinda continues the last video so might be worth checking out, when the BFA ones are over.
As always, Blizzard's art team never disappoints. This is probably the best cinematic… for one of the worst expansions.
you might really wanna check out the warbringers and harbringers cinematics, goes wayy more indepth of characters!
keep up the great job!
never clicked so fast in my life. Really looking forward to you doing the rest of the cinematics all the way to current. Theyre amazing and I'm enjoying your insights on these! Keep it up!
Oh and some background story of why this war broke out. Sylvanas (banshee elf lady) is the leader of the horde and in an attempt to get the edge on an upcoming war, she did a horrible warcrime, killing many innocents and burning the home of the night elves (Teldrassil). War broke out and the alliance is coming for her head. Her burning Teldrassil is mostly condemned by the horde, as can be seen in the Old Soldier cinematic when Saurfang says "theres gonna be no honor today". Cause there was no honor in her actions. The horde is loyal though and still follows her into battle in this cinematic
The monster guy you liked is Genn Graymane, he's a Worgen. Worgens are able to shift between their human and wolfen forms.
For the Horde!
3:12 – Even with what happens, as a Horde player this moment still gives me chills.
There is a Warcraft movie, but it should be consider related not a direct lore ancestor. They change enough of the story that it doesn't fit with the games, but the concessions make sense for translating from one medium to another.
The reason I believe – why they zoomed in on the sword, and keeping Anduin hidden with the helmet is because it was Anduins father's sword. He died in the expansion before this one.
Probably just to screw with fans who doesn't pay too much attention to the lore(?)
Cuz there is a cutscene in Legion where Anduin takes up the blade. (you should watch it, or all the WoW cutscenes tbh ^^ )
"Why'd they stop it there???" Mate, we've been saying that for years 🤣 They need to hurry up and make a movie in this style. Blizzard's cinematic team are absolutely the best in the industry.
Hi Kai, like your videos. You should do "heart of the swarm" and "legacy of the void" opening cinematics. Both are from the same studio and of equal quality to this. The halo 5 opening cinematic is pretty epic too.
5:55 – In the Warcraft movie you see a very, very young Varian Wrynn (Anduin Wrynn's father) and Anduin's namesake, Anduin Lothar.
OK, quick lore explanation to clarify characters.
Basically, World of Warcraft has 2 factions, Horde and Alliance.
Horde is composed of honorable Orcs (like Saurfang – "Old Soldier"), Trolls (3 fingered slim blue guys), Tauren (Ox-like minotaur bull-guys), Blood elves and Undead (Sylvanas the Banshee Queen, witch gal). Horde is traditionally led by orc Warchiefs but last warchief has named Sylvanas as the Warchief upon dying.
Alliance is the Anduin's faction, composed of Humans, Dwarfs, Gnomes, Night Elves, Worgen (Werewolves), etc. They were led by Anduin's father but he died a few years before this cinematic and left Anduin as the King. Anduin is actually a Priest, servent of the Holy Light.
For some reason, when Sylvanas became the warchief, she began to act violent and burned down the great tree of Night Elves. (We saw the scene briefly in Old Soldier, Saurfang has confronted Sylvanas and said "there's no honor in this".) So there's an internal struggle within the Horde about the motivation of Sylvanas. Though she leads this battle as the Warchief, many Horde members are questioning her leadership.
This expansion is going over this story.
to this day, Blizzard remain the kings and queens of Cinematics. in my opinion anyway, there is very few that contend with them in terms of quality.
just to put into perspective how epic this felt, for this fan atleast. I had been away from this game for 4 years and told myself i would never return (game is a timesink the way i play it) i saw this trailer and immediately went to pre-order this expansion 😆 Every time i watch this trailer i get goosebumps
10:51 – Shalamayne, the blade of the King, is formed by two swords Shalla'tor and Ellemayne coming together. It's the mark of the leader of the Alliance. They're Elven blades forged back in the War of the Ancients, and Render and Reaver (their names) come together as a symbol of unity now.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner is, at this point, the Banshee Queen of the Forsaken (the Undead who reclaimed their wills and minds) and leader of The Horde. There's a beautiful moment of symmetry here in that the villain who corrupted her, the Lich King Arthas, was before his fall a Paladin who looks an AWFUL LOT like young Anduin here and was a servant of the Light.
When Arthas was defeated Sylvanas took her own life rather than continue to be a slave to the Lich Kings, and was brought back from The Maw (Azeroth's literal Hell) with an Agenda of her own that is playing out even here. For her there's this moment of terrible purpose when she's reflecting on the hate that caused HER to ally with something.
Just for context: while this cinematic takes place directly after the Old Soldier cinematic, this was actually released several months earlier as this was the teaser cinematic for the expansion.
Yes that blond boy was Anduin.
In this cinematic he's supposed to be around 18 years old. During this battle he saw so many die, and during the Shadowlands Expansion he was mindcontrolled, or rather his body was controlled while his mind was wathcing unable to stop things. He was forced to slaughter, kill, and do unspeakable things by the Jailer (the big antagonist of Shadowlands). Doing this horrified him even more but what really got under his skin was that somewhere he thought he enjoyed it.
Anduin has always been a bit of a goody two-shoe, a Holy Priest, blessed by the powers of the Light (usually seen as Divine power even if it's unclear what kind of god or divinity grants the power) and as you can see in this cinematic he can call down the healing powers from the Holy Light to restore his soldiers from the brink of death.
Fast forward to The War Within. He's now just shy of 30 years old I think. He's still haunted by what he witnessed, by the people dying in his name and by his order, the people he murdered under the control of the Jailer and how he is still not sure who he is. He's afraid that if he ever calls on the Light he will not be able to wield it. Without the Light and being a just and strong leader, who is he? Just a normal man? So he don't dare to call on it. because as long as he don't he can still think that there is a chance. He will not know that he still can wield it, but he also won't know if it's truly left him.
In The War Within, when he tells the orc Thrall that "I've lost my Light" he is not sure, but he believes it to be so. And without it, who is he?
11:13 – Genn Greymane, former king of Gilneas (one of the founders of the Alliance). The Orcs had just broken out of their internment camps at the end of the Second War and Greymane noped TF out of the Alliance deciding he could not keep asking Gilneas to pick up the tab for the actions of others. They built the Greymane wall and hid inside Gilneas. Problem was, trouble wasn't about to leave Gilneas alone.
Right around the start of the Third War (Warcraft 3), Genn told his court Archmage to keep them safe from the threat of The Scourge (the Undead slaves of the Lich King, of which Sylvanas was forced to become a member). That… didn't exactly go his way. Signal the start of the Worgen (werewolf) Curse.
Worgen became playable characters in the Cataclysm expansion, joining the Alliance.
12:05 – Very apt observation. Genn Greymane is about 73ish and Anduin Wrynn is about 19 or 20 here. Genn's incredibly physically powerful, too. Also Gilneas has been isolated from the Alliance up until the events of the Cataclysm which reshaped their world.