Giving Credit To Where Credit Is Due

Hi, again! Right now I'm tracing our steps back to our film idea. We originally had a very different idea as you well know by now. The idea we have now and are actually sticking with was inspired by my classmate and a Chinese myth. My classmate is the one who brought the idea to me and told me about this myth she'd heard of and I decided to do research on it.

The legend is called the Red String of Fate, and according to it, the gods supposedly tie an invisible red string around peoples' ankles, or fingers (Japanese version), that are destined to meet each other. It's similar to the idea of soulmates a lot of people in the U.S. believe in, only with a more fantastical element involving a string physically tying them together.

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We're taking from this as inspiration, but we aren't following the legend exactly or discussing it. The string in the legend is never cut, but in our film intro it will be shown cut. We also aren't following it exactly because we just want the main idea from it, that peoples' fates are tied together when they are destined to meet.

That's all I wanted to share with you guys, just how our idea actually accumulated and came together and how this Chines legend inspired my group's plot. Stay tuned for more, we'll be finishing filming soon, yay!

-Blogger Buitano

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