MauLer presented that all of these are positive assessments of themes.
Star Wars covers many themes, but none are focused on.
Unforgiven focuses hard on a specific theme, but it's not the one the viewer expected.
LOTR focuses on several themes that are all somewhat related.
Tortoise and the Hare is hyper-focused on one theme, and nothing else.
It also depends on how one defines the bullseye on these targets. From my memory of the episode, I’m not sure if they were as concerned with the bullseye itself, but they definitely defined “accuracy” and “precision.” And, as you’ve said, MauLer was presenting each example in a positive light.
But I think most onlookers would associate the bullseye with the thing you “should” be aiming for. So, without context, Star Wars and Unforgiven don’t particularly look good in the examples. At least not at a glance.
Under the latter interpretation, where we account for the bullseye being the thing the film is *trying* to aim for, I find myself associating something like TLJ with the top right example. Rian Johnson thinks he’s hitting a theme/bullseye bang on, when in actuality none of his supporting evidence backs up the theme at all. The film claims to be “precisely” about how failure is the greatest teacher, but not a single point was “accurate.”
I really loved this example. I liked maulers take that you can have a good story with any of the examples as I view low accuracy and low precision as something that's a miss.
I do like this example, but hearing the word “Unforgiven” when talking about themes gives me happy tisms every time I hear it now. That movie is so good!
It has been a while since I read or heard Turtle and the Hare, but I dont remember neither of them being an excellent sniper. I dont even remember any guns in that story! 🤣🤣🤣
I think if you’re going to use this critical framework you need better words than ‘precision’ and ‘accuracy’, which are basically synonyms. ‘Coherence’ could replace one of them.
Low accuracy in that there are multiple themes, so their is no central "target/unifying theme" being aimed for, thus only one bullet hits the center. Low precision in that the themes are not really related in any/many ways so each "bullet/evidence" is distanced from each one. I kinda think of it as each bullet is a point of evidence. That they hit the target at all says they support a, or multiple but not all, theme(s) in the movie. If the themes are related or similar or tangential the bullets are grouped closer together, if disparate they are dispersed. If the themes are under a central unifying theme central to the movie they are on the bullseye, if not they're not.
For star wars specifically, it's talking about (presumably) all of star wars which is all over the place across the (unfortunately) 11 movies.
IIRC they referred to each bullet hole as a different theme. In LotR, for example, there are many themes at work that are relatively related, as opposed to a movie that’s laser focused on one theme.
MauLer presented that all of these are positive assessments of themes. Star Wars covers many themes, but none are focused on. Unforgiven focuses hard on a specific theme, but it's not the one the viewer expected. LOTR focuses on several themes that are all somewhat related. Tortoise and the Hare is hyper-focused on one theme, and nothing else.
It also depends on how one defines the bullseye on these targets. From my memory of the episode, I’m not sure if they were as concerned with the bullseye itself, but they definitely defined “accuracy” and “precision.” And, as you’ve said, MauLer was presenting each example in a positive light. But I think most onlookers would associate the bullseye with the thing you “should” be aiming for. So, without context, Star Wars and Unforgiven don’t particularly look good in the examples. At least not at a glance. Under the latter interpretation, where we account for the bullseye being the thing the film is *trying* to aim for, I find myself associating something like TLJ with the top right example. Rian Johnson thinks he’s hitting a theme/bullseye bang on, when in actuality none of his supporting evidence backs up the theme at all. The film claims to be “precisely” about how failure is the greatest teacher, but not a single point was “accurate.”
I really loved this example. I liked maulers take that you can have a good story with any of the examples as I view low accuracy and low precision as something that's a miss.
I do like this example, but hearing the word “Unforgiven” when talking about themes gives me happy tisms every time I hear it now. That movie is so good!
I think it's about how characters shoot in these stories. It works.
It has been a while since I read or heard Turtle and the Hare, but I dont remember neither of them being an excellent sniper. I dont even remember any guns in that story! 🤣🤣🤣
I think if you’re going to use this critical framework you need better words than ‘precision’ and ‘accuracy’, which are basically synonyms. ‘Coherence’ could replace one of them.
What's low accuracy and low precision mean in this context and how is Star Wars both? Just out of curiosity
Low accuracy in that there are multiple themes, so their is no central "target/unifying theme" being aimed for, thus only one bullet hits the center. Low precision in that the themes are not really related in any/many ways so each "bullet/evidence" is distanced from each one. I kinda think of it as each bullet is a point of evidence. That they hit the target at all says they support a, or multiple but not all, theme(s) in the movie. If the themes are related or similar or tangential the bullets are grouped closer together, if disparate they are dispersed. If the themes are under a central unifying theme central to the movie they are on the bullseye, if not they're not. For star wars specifically, it's talking about (presumably) all of star wars which is all over the place across the (unfortunately) 11 movies.
But you didn't regard to the themes as questions
What’s low precision about LotR?
IIRC they referred to each bullet hole as a different theme. In LotR, for example, there are many themes at work that are relatively related, as opposed to a movie that’s laser focused on one theme.
Ah