I was gonna hold this idea to myself. But I thought to myself if I wanted to do this myself, it would be years. Thus I share it with people in hopes of someone actually doing it.
Create a story based on Malacca. Start the story with this. A young boy came all the way from Abbasiyah who went on a trading route to Malacca. There he saw the Grand Malacca where there a lot people from different culture and background. Japanese with their kimono and yukata (which is really cute), Chinese with their CheongSam, British with their imperial attire, Arabs with their cloack, and etc. (all over the world).
The boy was fascinated with how there are so many people from the entire world. In the middle of town there is a brawl. Different culture challenge to determine who's martial arts is the most powerful. British with their longsword technique, Japanese with there samurai sword and spirit, Chinese with their amazing Javelin, Indian with their nunchucks maybe? (i dont know about this :p).
The boy went their to see who will win the brawl. Towards the end came a man unarmed who took down all of them with swift attack. Not killing them but only knock them down. He took the prize money and the boy was fascinated with his moves. People started shouting "There it is Silat Harimau". There it is a warrior who moves like lightning, swift as the wind. People call him Tuah.
Thus start the adventure of a young boy getting to know Malacca and all the encounters of him with Tuah.
Damn I really want to write this story. It will be fucking epic (well in my mind of course). Important characters that can be added: Ibn Battuta, Laksamana Cheng Ho, Pirates from the Caribbean maybe.
The story can span from the early days to the fall of Malacca.
Ok in order for this project to work. 1st of course we need (we must do this in anime-style but in our own, as real life action movie would be lame to me personally)
Story-writer (but must research about the history of Malacca and also other's country history)
Story-board
Illustrator
Opening music and soundtrack
Ok this one is very important to me as music band in Malaysia has no job. Let's create job for them. Use their music in opening and ending theme. And also the soundtrack, even the fighting scene, intense scene, discussion scene, any kind of fucking music you can think of. Put it in there. With this people would create great music (and also with deep meaning (really important to me!)).
Marketing
Publisher
Well you can think of the rest.
I think this is a very viable project. I'm sharing this because I don't have the capability to create great story-line (huuu!!), I don't know how to draw (please all those so called-artist in Malaysia who can draw really cute muslimah and awesome built man), let's create something epic. I can hold onto this idea but an idea would just be an idea.
So I called upon pelukis-pelukis Malaysia. Come on guys! Show your talent! Music kena gempak!
Any question comment below, maybe we can get something going! :D
P/S: Game industry i will discuss more on the next post i guess. But i think you guys can figure it out. In game there is also awesome soundtrack (like seriously this is fucking important) because I saw a lot of talented band in Malaysia. Let's use them (no offence like slaving or anything it's just need to use every skill that we have to create something awesome!)
Cheers.
good article....
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