You’re a demon who governs the creation of Personal Hells; parts of Hell created for the truly despicable designed specifically around them. You’ve just gotten a submission for someone who doesn’t seem to be afraid of anything.
You press a small stone gargoyle into the child’s hands and say, “This protected me in the dark all my life; now, I give its protection to you.” The next day, you’re dead.
okay i KNOW that Naruto is the protagonist of the Land of Snow movie because Naruto Is The Protagonist but frankly???? what a mistake. if i were going to rewrite this movie (which… don’t tempt me) and if this movie were allowed to have real character growth and important character moments….
Naruto should learn a lesson from the princess
it’s a Naruto movie and the plot kind of demands that she still go through with it, but as much as this is a story about the princess realizing that she can’t give up, this should also be a story where Naruto makes a real, emotional connection with the princess.
at the beginning of the movie the princess doesn’t want to sign autographs.
she’s like what’s so special about my autograph? you’ll shove it in a drawer and it’ll collect dust. it’s “useless” and a “waste of time”.
meanwhile Naruto gets caught up in fannish excitement and chases down her horse! he also calls her by her character name for like the first half of the movie.
Naruto should have gotten to learn why the princess felt her fame as an actress was “a joke”!
in the end of course the only person we really get to see change is the princess, who (because this is a nart movie) discovers that actually she just had to believe in herself and Naruto all along and she was, idk, wrong for being scared of being literally murdered by the powerful dude who literally murdered her father.
Naruto could have had a real conversation with her about how empty her life has been since she left Land of Snow and how isolated she’s been by her trauma and fear. Naruto could hear, in her explanation of how meaningless her fame is, an echo of his own loneliness. Naruto could have looked past her film persona and actually really connected with her in a way the rest of the team couldn’t!
furthermore, he could realize that his quest to be recognized and loved by the village, although a perfectly fine goal, could become an empty dream if he doesn’t really focus on being recognized and loved for the right reasons.
at the end of the movie when the princess is gladly signing autographs, Naruto would get to see that this fame and adoration brings her joy because it’s based around her doing something really good for these people, not around who they think she is, and the autograph that he has from her would be super meaningful.
(ok, it’s already a little meaningful because Sasuke got it for him, but you know what I mean.)
Oh, do I want to see your version of things, now; that sounds incredible.
Do you think you’d be able to do anything with the character arcs of the other members of Team 7? I mean … you were joking about Kakashi being rival-bait before, lol, would you bring that to the fore, make it more obvious, or would you do something else with him, for example?
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