Mortal Kombat Legacy Episode 5: Kitana & Mileena (Part 2)

wow pretty gay

ya but kill bill is way better

this 7 minute shit is getting tiring, to much of a tease

The studio never got into his writing..The only reason he wrote Rebirth the way he did was because of limited resources:

"You always have those fans who say. That's not really Mortal Kombat but for the most part the response has been overwhelmingly positive. The reason I did that style to be perfectly honest is that you need a crapton of effects. I did the whole real world take on it because for one it looked cool but also you can’t get away with not doing those vfx and you don’t do them unless you can do them well. For me I didn’t have to shoot an ice blast or suck out somebody's soul. Taking place in a police precinct it was ok for it to be a really gritty world. I couldn't create Outworld. I couldn’t go find an Asian temple. There was just no way to do that convincingly. "

http://m.current.com/entertainment/movies/93150300_mortal-kombat-an-interview-with-director-kevin-tancharoen-on-mk-legacy.htm

And remember what he said back in June about Outworld and the fireballs etc: "I know that there’s definitely a handful of purists that have their opinions on the mysticism and the mythos of Mortal Kombat. But I do have an answer for that: this is just a prelude to what my movie version would be. And of course, when you’re working by yourself, you have a limited resource of budget. I made this thing for $7,500. I couldn’t go balls-to-the-wall on visual effects. I had to utilize what I could and make the best of it. I want the mysticism to be treated carefully and with integrity. We just kind of went for it, and did it. And everyone was available, they believed in the project. We picked up the camera, and we went, and we didn’t stop."

"Now, in a movie version, I am going to have that mysticism there, but it has to be done in a very tasteful way. I wouldn’t like it too campy or too cheesy. I know this is a weird analogy, but it’s the best one I can think of right now. It’s kind of like when in Harry Potter, there’s two universes that coexist with each other. There’s the real world, and then you get on the train and then you go to Hogwart’s, and that’s where all the magic is. It was actually kind of similar in the first Mortal Kombat, too. They had to get on the ship and go to the island, and that’s where all the crazy stuff happened"

" So that was one thing I did want to make sure I was going to be able to do, and it wasn’t going to be too over the top with fireballs and electricity. Even though I do want to have that in there. But I really feel like there has to be limitations to it. There has to be rules. Because when you take a special move, and you make it indisposable, to me it’s no longer special. It has to all come from something that has a little bit of limitation to it. I think whenever I talk about stuff like this, I always give the analogy of the whole Matrix trilogy. I personally only really love the first one, because I feel like that’s the only one that had personal stakes with Neo. He had limitations. He had obstacles that he had to overcome. His powers were limited. But once you got him there, it was amazing. The other two, not so much. "

So with all that mysticism, I want to infuse it. But I also want to infuse it with a little bit more of a demonic presence, as opposed to an Asian mysticism presence, so that it feels a little bit more evil. That’s the thing about Mortal Kombat. I love that it was all the bad things. It was evil, it was bloody. It was your way of being twelve and rebelling. “I’m not gonna play Sonic the Hedgehog — I’m gonna play Mortal Kombat.” I definitely want to incorporate all of that stuff, but I want to incorporate it in a very tasteful way. Not in an over the top, campy way, where everyone one is just throwing fireballs, and throwing electricity, and having an unlimited supply of special moves. Because then, if you do that, to me they’re not special anymore at all. And I want to incorporate all of the very iconic things that have made Mortal Kombat so special. I think, obviously one of the more iconic ones is Scorpion having a flaming skull. However, you have to take in mind that that’s also Ghost Rider. You have to really be clever with how you’re going to do that. You can’t just do it again. It just won’t look good anymore. So that would be my movie version if I ever get to be lucky enough to to do something like that."

http://collider.com/kevin-tancharoen-interview-mortal-kombat-rebirth-feature-film/31318/

So it was never his aim to treat the characters like he did despite the fact that many of us like myself didnt believe him at the time.... So it's not interference for why KT is keeping to the canon

Anyway, I liked this episode better than the previous one and I love the performances Kitana and Mileena as well as their fight. Also happy to finally get a faithful Kitana but if this gets a movie they better work on improving their execution and handle Kahn better as well

@Jer3miah: I'm sure he still wanted to keep to the canon pretty closely but I think that it likely would be alot better if he wasnt on a time crunch to get this all done for the sake of tying in with the games.