User blog comment:TheRedCross/If there was an Elder Scrolls film...../@comment-174.31.209.33-20130422045058

ever since i first played oblivion when i was in 6th grade i've been thinking about what a good movie adaptation would look and feel like. my first thought as a twelve year old was that the movie would be shot from the perspective of an arena fighter in the imperial city as he progresses from the lowest cast of gladiator ( i forgot the exact name ) to grand champion and then from there going to kvatch and finding the emperor's son martin. i pictured clive owen in my head as the main character and he would be an imperial. there would be more than one movie too. i've thought about it on and off in the 5 years since then and even added in a few characters who would fit perfectly into the elder scrolls universe but weren't in the game cause i'm a big nerd. so this is what i got: the main character is a dark elf whose mother was a breton dark brotherhood master assassin and his father was a dunmer master thief for the thieves guild. the parents kept their identites hidden from the main character as he was growing up but taught him skills like hand to hand combat, sneaking, restoration magic, and swordsmanship. the main character doesnt learn of his parents true identites until he is a teenager. his mother is killed in a botched assassination attempt and his father disappears without a trace with no word to anyone. when he is informed of his parents true identites by none other than lucien lachance he is distraught ( to the surprise of lachance ) and decides to try and atone for his parents sins by living a peaceful life in the imperial city arboretum as a glass blower ( hahaha somthing like that ). see he's got a good heart and his parents did a great job of keeping everything hidden from him. the main character just thought his parents were merchants in the imperial city. as he's living his life in the arboretum he's constantly being dogged by lachance to join the dark brotherhood and make his mother proud but our dunmer always turns him down and lachance always comes back, knowing what a valuable asset our dunmer would be to the dark brotherhood. our dunmer eventually meets the love of his life, another dunmer who is the doctor of a rich merchant in the talos plaza district. well things are looking up for our dunmer as he heads out of his working quarters early one morning to surprise his love with his proposal. he heads over to her house to find his love's father dead and a man in a red cloak standing over him. the two have a bloody scrap and the killer gets away ( the fugitive style). our dunmer is blamed for the murder to the shock of his love, who later marries the accusing officer cause of how comforting he was, and our dunmer is marched off to the imperial city in shock. boy that felt good to get out, and that's just the main character's backstory!! the gist of what happens next is that he adjusts to prison life, befriends a couple inmates ( shawshank redemption style ), freaks out in his cell after his protege glass blower is sent into jail cell next to him because he botched the thieves guild initiation ( our dunmer is very disappointed in him and thaught he taught his protege better than to get mixed up in the thieves guild ), freaks out some more after his protege tells him that his love is marrying his accusor, and freaks alittle a third time because of how annoying and antagonistic valen dreth is. all the while he's dealing with constant visits in the night by the taunting lucien lachance who tells our dunmer that he will break him out if he joins the dark brotherhood ( our good dunmer refuses everytime ) and nightmares about flaming worlds, daedric visions, and an old man that he can't explain. i could keep going and going and going, and if this were the movie it would have only covered the first half an hour!!! ahhhh!!! then one night a new inmate is brought into our dunmer's cell block. our dunmer strikes up a small conversation with him and the new inmate ends the conversation with " a new dawn is breaking friend". it turns out this new inmate wanted to be brought into the prison cause he's an assassin. he blows up his cell from the inside and pretty much raises hell and chaos as he lets in his fellow assassins through a giant hole in the imperial prison. this assassin is one of four lead assassins who coordinate the attack on the prison. in the chaos some of our dunmers prison friends escape through the hole in the prison but our dunmer is stuck cause his cell remained undamaged from the mythic dawn assassins blast. his friends attempt to get him out but he just tells them to leave him. as the hours pass and he listens to the chaos going on outside of his prison he is visited by lucien lachance who gives him one last chance to join the dark brotherhood and obtain his freedom, but our dunmer once again refuses and tells lucien to "screw himself and leave me be". flabbergasted lucien leaves to the sound of guards coming. our dunmer retreats to the back of his cell to find that three blades have arrived at his cells entrance along with the old man form his nightmares. and yadda yadda yadda that's all i can write for now it's pretty late here and it's a sunday and i'm feverish and i need to get some sleep. so hopefully u guys got the gist of what i'm thinking. the movie adaptation in my head of the elder scrolls 4 oblivion would be split up into 3 parts with a shivering iles spinoff film in between parts 2 and 3. call me strange but i believe a good alt rock soundtrack like say form atoms for peace or woodkid would be good for a movie like this along with some original music by jeremy soule. a movie version of skyrim has not yet materialized in my head. i may blog about the rest of this later.