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🟩 UK Filmmaker Kai Zammit reacts and breaks down World of Warcraft Old Soldier 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!!
War has a way of wearing down the most weathered soldiers. For legendary Horde warrior Varok Saurfang, this one could very well be his last.
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yeees! i've been waiting for this! excited to watch this and hear your thoughts!
Love blizzard's cinematics
Guess imma cry on my lunch at work, aight im in it
a bit of background for this one, sylvanas (the woman in the flashback), who is leading the horde at this point, burned down the city at the second world tree, teldrassil. that event basically kickstarted this war. before this there was an uneasy peace between the horde and alliance, and teldrassil was a very important alliance location.
You can basicly watch this as a mini movie since they have a lot of cinematics in this storyline. It´s a story from Battle for Azeroth warcampaign.
I love zappy boi ❤ great video
Its always baffled me that Blizzard never made an actual movie, they have incredible writers, artists and directors! All of their IPs have great stories to tell!
If you like good lighting, your mind is going to get blown by Lost Honor. Called it!
I can not wait for you to do the next cinematic. It's one of my favourites.
It's a little thing, but Warcraft gives it's elves those eyebrows to make them more dystinct from all the other fantasy elves. Small details can give flavor, changing just another version of old trope into its own thing and I imagine it helps a great deal when people can tell just at a glance: "Yep, that's from this IP".
The battle for azeroth cinematics 'old soldier' 'lost honor' 'safe haven' 'reckoning' and ofc the announcement trailer, are probably my favorite wow cinematics ever. Super excited to see you cover these.
Ngl, I'd like to watch a 1-2 hour video of you reacting to a few of the Azeroth cinematics back to back instead of one per video. Your stuff is always so interesting.
I would die to let Kai see World of warcraft – Ysera Reborn cinematic… its the most emotional shit that killed me dead to death 5 times
The orc's kid has a tragic story that goes back to the "Wrath of the Lich King" expansion released in 2008!
That expansion had Blizzard's first ever InGame cinematic, "The Wrathgate". During that The Alliance and The Horde both assault a gate into the Lich Kings citadel. The leader of the Alliance army was Bolvar Fordragon and the leader of the Horde was Dranosh Saurfang, the son of the Orc in this cinematic.
The son is knocked down and killed by the Lich King and is later raised in Undeath and becomes a mind controlled puppet. Us players face off against him in the final raid (Ruby Sanctum doesn't count, fight me) and we kill him. If you play as the Alliance, Saurfang and another Horde character appears and the Alliance NPCs are ready to attack, but the Alliance leader (Varian Wrynn) tells the guards to step back. The orc is no threat. It is a father there to grieve his son, and as a father to another Varian lets Saurfang retrieve the body of his dead son.
The cut in this cinematic to the son on the ice is a harsh reference back to that moment when Saurfang is able to retrieve and grieve his son.
Now context, here's an orphaned troll youth who look up to Saurfang as a bit of an idol and possibly as a fatherfigure, and in that Saurfang sees a bit of his own son, so when he says "live another day" it hits as if it's Saurfang's son telling him to not give up but to live another day.
Sidetrack, "The Wrathgate" was directed by Terran Gregory who made a fan-video set in World of Warcraft using InGame assets. He attended BlizzCon and was able to speak to one of the devs. When the dev realized he was the one whohad made that fan video he wa amazed and said the devs had all passed that cinematic around the office because they liked it so much! He was told to apply and was hired for the Cinematics team.
Terran is kinda seen by the players as a guarantee that the stuff will be good. If Terran hypes it before release, players listen.
Super happy to see you doing the old soldier and BFA cinematics. Ive been waiting for this.
Also, not sure if its really your thing, but most of the WoW expansions also release a handful of 'animated' shorts leading up to the release. While not cinematics like this, the style is much more hand-painted, they might be worth looking into. If nothing more, watching some of the BFA ones (Warbringers: Sylvanas in particular) might give some context to the story if youre interested.
I know you have a queue of these from people in your ear about what to watch. I also know you tend to do your due diligence. There will be a lot of people that want you to watch every in-game cinematic etc. You can just watch the main ones from this expansion listed in another comment you've already replied to: "Old Soldier", "Battle For Azeroth", "Lost Honor", "Safe Haven", and "Reckoning" for the actual cinematics. I'd also recommend checking out at least "Warbringers: Azshara" as a stand-alone thing and maybe the Jaina and Sylvanas ones but the latter two are more story driven even if they're pretty awesome.
Blizzard has many flaws, but the cinematic department is NOT one of them.
They are close to holy in the cinematic industry, they set the standard
That being said, For the Dark Lady! (That's Sylvanas for you noobs:P)
You do the best breakdown analysis out of any filmmakers that I watch – bar none. I like how you don't pause the video while it's first playing, you take it in and enjoy it, instead of pausing and talking for minutes at a time. People who pause a lot like that, lose my attention to the emotions to the videos you watch. Thanks as always.
Great Breakdown!
I can only agree with other commentators. The Battle for Azeroth cinematics are masterworks.
What i also really do like about these, that there is a music-Leitmotif everytime the necklace is shown. Not only in this one, but the others that are coming up too. Its so well made, I still tear up sometimes 😀
Thanks for the video <3
Another piece of detail, look at he does with his fist against his sons chest after he grasps the medallion, he does the same to the young troll later. Sign of respect. First the butt of the fist, then turn it to fingers facing inwards. They do loads of these details that are easily missed. In the war within cinematic when anduin puts the sword out, shaking, when thrall puts his chest against it, it stops shaking, Thrall is supporting him, visualized by how he supports the trembling of the sword.
This is my first time to the channel and I’m blown away by the intricate analysis! Chef’s kiss!
Just FYI not two Orcs – one (the 'boy') is a Troll.
Saurfang's story was always beautiful/hard, the visuals just helped out. Knowing he saw many different kind of warchiefs of the Horde.
He fought the armies of the Lich King in which his son was resurrected by said Lich King.
He saw Thrall try and be a spiritual leader for his people, Garosh be a conqueror, Sylvanus be a destroyer and he's just done with the cycle of war.
But then as Zappy talks about how the Horde is all he has, he sees the banner and all the different things its meant to all the different people. A symbol of fear, death and even hope. it's a small voice within the new generation wanting to do right which is inspiring but also people who have literally nothing else much like him.
So he lives to fight another day.
Man i forgot how good these cinematics was, shame the expansion sucked
After these, there was a sort of in game showing of respect and loyalty to Saurfang, Horde players started mirroring the taking off of the shoulder pads with more and more doing so over the course of these releasing. Was really cool to see folks rally behind the character in an in-game capacity through that shared idea ^^
Terran Gregory the Cinematic Director for Blizzard, has always had his team nail the perfection of their cinematics. He's one of my favorite people who still work at Blizzard today, he's such a nice down to earth guy.
funny fact, blizzard cinematic deparment leader, have said this cinematics 5-8 minute take them between 4 to 8 month from begin to end. i think they said that Legion Cinematics took them 7 month to make.
I would love to see your filmmaker reaction to two fan made videos on wow, Naxxaramas & Black Temple by Hurricane (top tier quality cinematics). Seeing the breakdown on the creative choices he made would be real interesting. I know, more work and videos but these are interesting 🙂