Thank you so much to anyone who watched even a second of this video! It genuinely means so much to me that you took time out of your day to listen to me nerd out about writing and FF7. This is easily my most ambitious project yet and I have no clue if anybody’s gonna like it, so your feedback is always appreciated! If this type of video is something you wanna see more of, please let me know any other FF7 characters you think I should write a movie for next! Thank you again and have a great day!!! ❤️🔥
Next character pick for me, would be Zack Fair. We know how he died, and what he did before that. But what about his childhood? His 'secret thoughts' about Aerith? How he feels about Cissnei? All that 'in between' etc? What did he think during those years being trapped in a tank? He's always so upbeat.. but we only know the outside. The side of him he shows. etc. I've always wondered about that. And sidenote: I do NOT think he'd "support" Cloud x Aerith. Ever. XDD Some people like to say he'd be fine with things like that and while he's a good guy (the best really), he does have feelings and ownership, too! Or so I'd like to think! °_°)/
This was super creative and fun, and it definitely improved upon some of the issues I had with Traces of Tifa myself. I like both Jessie's expanded role and how you made Rakesh even more repugnant (which made his takedown all the more satisfying). And of course you ended it at the perfect place. Tifa is still SO young when the original game starts, and I like that you were able to build on both her struggles and her triumphs in these very difficult years she endured. An obvious labor of love. We Tifa fans are so fortunate to have creators like you!! Thank you!!
And I am fortunate to have such nice viewers that take time out their day to watch my little passion projects! Thank you for your time, attention, and thoughtfulness. It's comments like these that make the months of work feel worth it!
This was just incredible man. Such a unique idea for a video that you so clearly poured so much love and work into. Not only did you do a book review but also wrote this incredible feature length script for a film? Just insanely impressive man. Almost as impressive as how much you grow from video to video. Your editing, presentation, writing, it’s all just levelling up more and more every single time. The sky is the limit for you! Not the shinra plate, the actual blue sky!!! So proud for you you my friend ❤️❤️❤️
Ditto you man! I hope you know how grateful I am to have your continued kindness and support. Means the world to have someone in the RUclips space to talk to about the highs and lows of this hobby, thank you! So very proud of you as well! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Nice screenplay and honestly a highlight of my day to listen to it! Trace of Two Pasts was a good read and a much needed prequel to the main story. I agree it needed alittle tweaking. My favorite part was how you expanded on Tifa and Jessie’s friendship.
I just finished watching this while on my commute and I wanna say that this was absolutely great. As a general fan of FF7, I love Traces of Two Pasts and what it adds to Tifa and Aerith’s characters and backstories and that despite what it adds, you were still able to give it constructive criticism. I agreed with the points you made in that for Tifa’s section, Rakesh didn’t seem like a very threatening protagonist and that it should’ve taken the time to build Jessie and Tifa’s relationship. The only thing I would say I would’ve added to this wonderful work you made was a little line of dialogue from Tifa when she has the nightmare of the Nibelheim incident at her first night in that tiny place she’s staying it. This is just a personal gripe on my part but I think Tifa still holds her promise with Cloud in high regard so maybe she could’ve something along the lines of, “you promised you would be there for me” when she wakes up from said nightmare. Something akin to what she said in Crisis Core when Zack finds her after she’s struck down by Sephiroth. But other than that, this was fantastic. I loved every second of this video. Great work man 👍🏼.
Thanks for such a thoughtful and kind reply! I’m thrilled to hear that you got so much out of the video, I appreciate the suggestion too! Hope you have a lovely rest of your day! 💯
wow this video is amazing, I love how you improve the storyline and make rakesh an actual villain, I hope we get a solo tifa lockhart movie or game in the future
Love this so much 🎉 I agree w/many of your ToTP takes but I think the planetology recruiting thing was intentional by Nojima bc of Tifa's growth arc that was planned for Gongaga... players supposed to see Tifa's ideas may not be as fully formed and mechanical as traditional planetology. ToTP sets up Tifa to breakthrough with her own insights (and rejected by CC planetologists) in Rebirth. Nojima foreshadowing. 😊
WOWWWWWW the algorithm brought me here and I am sooo happy it did. First off, I LOVE your editing style soooo much it is so fun to watch. And the writing is sooooo incredible- one thing I especially love is the ending which I TOTALLY feel like was a missed opportunity for Traces of Two Pasts. Absolutely incredible and the hard work you put in to make this happen is mind blowing and so appreciated by ff7 fans like me. THANK YOU! Hope this blows up!!
Back with another fantastic video!! Watched the full thing & loved every second of it. Really felt like the story came from the game. Keep up the great work & awesome story-telling, Xander!
Watched the whole video in one go!! Thanks to the way you describe things, it was very easy to envision it in vivid detail. There were many moments where I thought "oh my god, I want to make a render of this moment!" - remarkable. I love the changes you made to Rakesh and his shitty personality, putting it more into the spotlight. And even more so, I loved the fun absurd 'sexual' innuendo moments that had you shocked when you read them in the script again, forgetting all about it beforehand. XDD Aka: grinding ones wee-wee to a pulp, or not sleeping in the honey bee in etc. Ha'ha. All in all, an absolutely amazing video. I really wish this would be a movie. In fact, I wish you'd be hired as the screen writer. And after this one, you'll make one for CloTi, right? Because Remake starts at a spot where Cloud is already familiar with the slums - kind of. But what happened when Tifa found him? When it faded to black? What happened between then, and the start of Remake? But in a modern take (since we do technically know it from OG, and seen it in ever crisis). Now THAT is something I'd love to know, too! Thank you so much for this video. ♥ I truly can not wait to see what you're doing next! ^o^/)
Thank you as always Sreli! I’d love to see you render any moment of Totp! FF7 is such a grand story and all the gaps in the timeline are part of why I love it, we get to speculate and engage with the world and characters even once the credits roll. Glad to have you in the community, I hope we can keep working together on more beautiful renders!
Dang, this is so cool. Admittedly I'm not too knowledgeable FF7 lore since I only played the OG and never had the chance with Remake/Rebirth so I'm a little lost in the "expanded" backstories (I didn't know there was a Tifa/Aerith novel!) BUT, something I always wanted more of was Avalanche's members. I remember not feeling too bad when they died since I wasn't that invested in them, but seeing how you fleshed out Tifa's friendship with Jessie was great, it was very beautiful and touching and it changed my perspective on that event. Fantastic video, I enjoyed the whole thing!
Ahhh thanks a million times! I’m glad this video was accessible to casual fans as well, and really happy you got something out of it. Thanks for the watch and the lovely comment! ❤️🔥
I won't be able to see the entire video before I take my flight to Japan, but I do wanna comment as soon as I can to say: You're amazing man! Your editing has improved so much since we discovered each other's channels and your passion for these characters is so influencing and it kinda sticks with me to appreciate them even more. Keep doing amazing Xander. You have no idea how proud I am for you to be able to find a great community that supports you! Cheers my dude! And have a fantastic day!
Im at work, damn! OK when I first saw you were gonna make this, ngl I was a little scared because I thought you were just gonna write fan fiction but knowing that it's an adaptation, I'm so into this!
Finally got around to watching this! Just wow man it blew my expectations outta the water! You have such an insightful understanding of the characters but especially with Tifa and Jesse! I could picture their voices saying the lines and it immersed me so well! I legit teared up when Tifa shared her past and I got so excited when I realized what was about to happen in the last scene! And you made Rakesh into such a believable and easy to hate antagonist! Just wonderful work man, this was incredible 🔥
This was a really cool project! I loved your thoughts on the script writing process, and your revisions to the original story really felt like they fit well. I love Jessie so much in particular, those scenes were awesome. I'd love to see your thoughts on Aerith's story, or any other stories in the FFVII world that interest you.
Very flattering to hear that! Thanks for taking time out of your day to watch and comment! Definitely keen to do a dive into Aerith’s chapter if enough folks are interested!
Thank you for this awesome video! Your attention to detail, the thought, care, planning, accuracy, and storytelling skills... it's truly incredible how you managed to not only write all of this but put together such an engaging and dramatic reading in visual format. This is actually incredible!!!! Your critiques are also spot on and i truly appreciate, especially as a literature major, your deep understanding of writing and storytelling. You never miss!! GOAT
What the hell this is like one of the nicest comments I’ve ever received 😭 Thank you for engaging with the video so thoughtfully and letting me know what it meant to you! You’re the real goat! 🐐
I teared up at the end, it’s just so perfect to end it that way. I loved every second of this and felt like I was watching a movie. I love Tifa and now I love her even more. I wait for more of your future vids, thanks for sharing this masterpiece with us!! ❤
Thank you for this really cool video. I loved it and i knew i would. I didn't want it to stop. Loved Traces of Two Pasts and you made me want to read it again. I think it's too sad that Tifa's backstory is just in a book, many people doesn't even know about this book and by extention about Tifa's backstory. So thank you for this wonderful share, it will open some people eyes i hope. Tifa is sooooo important in FF7 story. Well now i'm looking forward to your next video #Tifan 👏🏻
Bar montage sounds good! I can imagine it in head, but I can also hear the slams slowly getting faster and faster until all the glass sounds merge into that one last slam!
Nojima the real reason why the plot of FF7R is so goddamn convoluted. Nomura still can't beat the allegations though, only cause he's the easier target.
Hey man, so I'm a fan of your previous work but I hope you readied yourself for this one potentially not going down that well. I totally get this was a personal project for you but a lot of people are gonna see this as 1hr+ of glorified fanfiction in audio form prefaced by mild jabs at what is arguably Nojima's best written work. I might be wrong, but if I'm not don't get discouraged and good luck with your future projects. P s. If nothing else I appreciate that you spotlighted Traces of Two Pasts, it gets overlooked but has done a lot for Tifa's character.
Thanks for the support. I hope I could convey in the video that I do really enjoy Totp, but even our favorite pieces of art aren’t immune to criticism. Definitely aware this video ain’t gonna be for everyone, but if there’s even a handful of people that really enjoy it, that’s a enough for me! ❤️🔥
Thank you so much to anyone who watched even a second of this video! It genuinely means so much to me that you took time out of your day to listen to me nerd out about writing and FF7. This is easily my most ambitious project yet and I have no clue if anybody’s gonna like it, so your feedback is always appreciated! If this type of video is something you wanna see more of, please let me know any other FF7 characters you think I should write a movie for next! Thank you again and have a great day!!! ❤️🔥
You should not thank to people who tanked your retention and video reach because of that but K
Next character pick for me, would be Zack Fair. We know how he died, and what he did before that. But what about his childhood? His 'secret thoughts' about Aerith? How he feels about Cissnei? All that 'in between' etc? What did he think during those years being trapped in a tank? He's always so upbeat.. but we only know the outside. The side of him he shows. etc.
I've always wondered about that.
And sidenote: I do NOT think he'd "support" Cloud x Aerith. Ever. XDD Some people like to say he'd be fine with things like that and while he's a good guy (the best really), he does have feelings and ownership, too! Or so I'd like to think! °_°)/
I'm a simple person: I read the name Tifa Lockhart and you already have my attention. Great video, Xander! Thanks for sharing it.
This was super creative and fun, and it definitely improved upon some of the issues I had with Traces of Tifa myself. I like both Jessie's expanded role and how you made Rakesh even more repugnant (which made his takedown all the more satisfying). And of course you ended it at the perfect place. Tifa is still SO young when the original game starts, and I like that you were able to build on both her struggles and her triumphs in these very difficult years she endured. An obvious labor of love. We Tifa fans are so fortunate to have creators like you!! Thank you!!
And I am fortunate to have such nice viewers that take time out their day to watch my little passion projects! Thank you for your time, attention, and thoughtfulness. It's comments like these that make the months of work feel worth it!
OH MY GOSH IT'S HEREEE!!!! YAY!!! TIME TO DIVE IN!!! FINALLY!!!
This was just incredible man. Such a unique idea for a video that you so clearly poured so much love and work into. Not only did you do a book review but also wrote this incredible feature length script for a film? Just insanely impressive man. Almost as impressive as how much you grow from video to video. Your editing, presentation, writing, it’s all just levelling up more and more every single time. The sky is the limit for you! Not the shinra plate, the actual blue sky!!! So proud for you you my friend ❤️❤️❤️
Ditto you man! I hope you know how grateful I am to have your continued kindness and support. Means the world to have someone in the RUclips space to talk to about the highs and lows of this hobby, thank you! So very proud of you as well! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Nice screenplay and honestly a highlight of my day to listen to it! Trace of Two Pasts was a good read and a much needed prequel to the main story. I agree it needed alittle tweaking. My favorite part was how you expanded on Tifa and Jessie’s friendship.
Thanks a million! Such an honor to be a highlight of your day, absolutely flattered! 😭
You already got me at Tifa Lockhart
I just finished watching this while on my commute and I wanna say that this was absolutely great. As a general fan of FF7, I love Traces of Two Pasts and what it adds to Tifa and Aerith’s characters and backstories and that despite what it adds, you were still able to give it constructive criticism. I agreed with the points you made in that for Tifa’s section, Rakesh didn’t seem like a very threatening protagonist and that it should’ve taken the time to build Jessie and Tifa’s relationship. The only thing I would say I would’ve added to this wonderful work you made was a little line of dialogue from Tifa when she has the nightmare of the Nibelheim incident at her first night in that tiny place she’s staying it. This is just a personal gripe on my part but I think Tifa still holds her promise with Cloud in high regard so maybe she could’ve something along the lines of, “you promised you would be there for me” when she wakes up from said nightmare. Something akin to what she said in Crisis Core when Zack finds her after she’s struck down by Sephiroth. But other than that, this was fantastic. I loved every second of this video. Great work man 👍🏼.
Thanks for such a thoughtful and kind reply! I’m thrilled to hear that you got so much out of the video, I appreciate the suggestion too! Hope you have a lovely rest of your day! 💯
This should be a full-blown project! Someone share this with @Still Thinking Films and have them see this if they still haven't!
FAN CASTING:
Tifa: Bryan Cranston
Jessie: Aaron Paul
Rakesh: Anna Gunn
Monty: Jonathan Banks
Barret: Giancarlo Esposito
Marle: Dean Norris
Whats with male playing tifa?
wow this video is amazing, I love how you improve the storyline and make rakesh an actual villain, I hope we get a solo tifa lockhart movie or game in the future
I was pretty skeptical at first especially at the beginning with your thoughts but you delivered SO WELL. Loved it so much its now my canon.
Means to world to hear that! Thanks for taking 83 minutes out of your day for me! ❤️🔥
Love this so much 🎉 I agree w/many of your ToTP takes but I think the planetology recruiting thing was intentional by Nojima bc of Tifa's growth arc that was planned for Gongaga... players supposed to see Tifa's ideas may not be as fully formed and mechanical as traditional planetology. ToTP sets up Tifa to breakthrough with her own insights (and rejected by CC planetologists) in Rebirth. Nojima foreshadowing. 😊
WOWWWWWW the algorithm brought me here and I am sooo happy it did. First off, I LOVE your editing style soooo much it is so fun to watch. And the writing is sooooo incredible- one thing I especially love is the ending which I TOTALLY feel like was a missed opportunity for Traces of Two Pasts. Absolutely incredible and the hard work you put in to make this happen is mind blowing and so appreciated by ff7 fans like me. THANK YOU! Hope this blows up!!
I’m so happy you could find me, welcome! Glad you felt this was a worthwhile watch, thank you so much!
Back with another fantastic video!! Watched the full thing & loved every second of it. Really felt like the story came from the game. Keep up the great work & awesome story-telling, Xander!
Watched the whole video in one go!!
Thanks to the way you describe things, it was very easy to envision it in vivid detail. There were many moments where I thought "oh my god, I want to make a render of this moment!" - remarkable.
I love the changes you made to Rakesh and his shitty personality, putting it more into the spotlight. And even more so, I loved the fun absurd 'sexual' innuendo moments that had you shocked when you read them in the script again, forgetting all about it beforehand. XDD Aka: grinding ones wee-wee to a pulp, or not sleeping in the honey bee in etc. Ha'ha.
All in all, an absolutely amazing video. I really wish this would be a movie. In fact, I wish you'd be hired as the screen writer.
And after this one, you'll make one for CloTi, right? Because Remake starts at a spot where Cloud is already familiar with the slums - kind of.
But what happened when Tifa found him? When it faded to black? What happened between then, and the start of Remake? But in a modern take (since we do technically know it from OG, and seen it in ever crisis). Now THAT is something I'd love to know, too!
Thank you so much for this video. ♥ I truly can not wait to see what you're doing next! ^o^/)
Thank you as always Sreli! I’d love to see you render any moment of Totp! FF7 is such a grand story and all the gaps in the timeline are part of why I love it, we get to speculate and engage with the world and characters even once the credits roll. Glad to have you in the community, I hope we can keep working together on more beautiful renders!
Dang, this is so cool. Admittedly I'm not too knowledgeable FF7 lore since I only played the OG and never had the chance with Remake/Rebirth so I'm a little lost in the "expanded" backstories (I didn't know there was a Tifa/Aerith novel!) BUT, something I always wanted more of was Avalanche's members. I remember not feeling too bad when they died since I wasn't that invested in them, but seeing how you fleshed out Tifa's friendship with Jessie was great, it was very beautiful and touching and it changed my perspective on that event. Fantastic video, I enjoyed the whole thing!
Ahhh thanks a million times! I’m glad this video was accessible to casual fans as well, and really happy you got something out of it. Thanks for the watch and the lovely comment! ❤️🔥
That was a great video, takes me back to older youtube when people made fanfiction movie scripts
and allternate endings.
I won't be able to see the entire video before I take my flight to Japan, but I do wanna comment as soon as I can to say: You're amazing man!
Your editing has improved so much since we discovered each other's channels and your passion for these characters is so influencing and it kinda sticks with me to appreciate them even more.
Keep doing amazing Xander.
You have no idea how proud I am for you to be able to find a great community that supports you!
Cheers my dude! And have a fantastic day!
Im at work, damn! OK when I first saw you were gonna make this, ngl I was a little scared because I thought you were just gonna write fan fiction but knowing that it's an adaptation, I'm so into this!
Finally got around to watching this! Just wow man it blew my expectations outta the water! You have such an insightful understanding of the characters but especially with Tifa and Jesse! I could picture their voices saying the lines and it immersed me so well! I legit teared up when Tifa shared her past and I got so excited when I realized what was about to happen in the last scene! And you made Rakesh into such a believable and easy to hate antagonist! Just wonderful work man, this was incredible 🔥
This was a really cool project! I loved your thoughts on the script writing process, and your revisions to the original story really felt like they fit well. I love Jessie so much in particular, those scenes were awesome. I'd love to see your thoughts on Aerith's story, or any other stories in the FFVII world that interest you.
Very flattering to hear that! Thanks for taking time out of your day to watch and comment! Definitely keen to do a dive into Aerith’s chapter if enough folks are interested!
I thought this was well put together I’ll be happy with more content like this, awesome shirt by the way!
Thank you for this awesome video! Your attention to detail, the thought, care, planning, accuracy, and storytelling skills... it's truly incredible how you managed to not only write all of this but put together such an engaging and dramatic reading in visual format. This is actually incredible!!!! Your critiques are also spot on and i truly appreciate, especially as a literature major, your deep understanding of writing and storytelling. You never miss!! GOAT
What the hell this is like one of the nicest comments I’ve ever received 😭 Thank you for engaging with the video so thoughtfully and letting me know what it meant to you! You’re the real goat! 🐐
Wasn't expecting this so soon, but now I've got something to watch while eating tonight.
I teared up at the end, it’s just so perfect to end it that way. I loved every second of this and felt like I was watching a movie. I love Tifa and now I love her even more. I wait for more of your future vids, thanks for sharing this masterpiece with us!! ❤
I can’t tell you how happy I am to hear that! I’m glad I could make the lengthy runtime feel emotionally worth it, thank you for the lovely comment!
Wow! This was so good! Great job! Amazing, really. Yes, we want more. Thanks again!
Thank you for this really cool video. I loved it and i knew i would. I didn't want it to stop. Loved Traces of Two Pasts and you made me want to read it again. I think it's too sad that Tifa's backstory is just in a book, many people doesn't even know about this book and by extention about Tifa's backstory. So thank you for this wonderful share, it will open some people eyes i hope. Tifa is sooooo important in FF7 story. Well now i'm looking forward to your next video #Tifan 👏🏻
I'd watch the hell out of this movie.
FIRST!!! ♥ ♥ (Now to watch, then to comment once more!)
Hey he’s back. Great video man. Keep it up 👍🏼 😊😊😊
Amazing! You held my attention the whole time! I love it so much! Great job! 🥳🎉🙌💕
Another amazing video! Amazing job on the Screenplay, I'm obsessed! ❤️🔥
Bar montage sounds good! I can imagine it in head, but I can also hear the slams slowly getting faster and faster until all the glass sounds merge into that one last slam!
AND THAT ENDING! Perfect!
Thank you so much Andrea you are so sweet! Thrilled to hear you got something out of it ❤️🔥
Another masterpiece 🔥🐬🔥
well done blud🔥
Clouds character does make sense in Advent Children though.
Love the end
Oh this is gonna be creative XD
Nojima the real reason why the plot of FF7R is so goddamn convoluted. Nomura still can't beat the allegations though, only cause he's the easier target.
Hey man, so I'm a fan of your previous work but I hope you readied yourself for this one potentially not going down that well. I totally get this was a personal project for you but a lot of people are gonna see this as 1hr+ of glorified fanfiction in audio form prefaced by mild jabs at what is arguably Nojima's best written work. I might be wrong, but if I'm not don't get discouraged and good luck with your future projects.
P s. If nothing else I appreciate that you spotlighted Traces of Two Pasts, it gets overlooked but has done a lot for Tifa's character.
Thanks for the support. I hope I could convey in the video that I do really enjoy Totp, but even our favorite pieces of art aren’t immune to criticism. Definitely aware this video ain’t gonna be for everyone, but if there’s even a handful of people that really enjoy it, that’s a enough for me! ❤️🔥
@@xanderscutyes, every work of literature is open to critique
Whats your favorite hentai?
are u good bro 😭😭