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Published: 2018-06-27 17:36:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 5008; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 4
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Description Banjo and Tootie are orphans. Since their parents' passing, Banjo has been doing everything he can to be responsible and to look after his little sister.  Like in the game he's no real fan of going on "Adventures", but UNLIKE the game it's not because he's lazy or anything; he's just very protective of Tootie...but as a result is a bit overbearing (no pun intended); think Marlin from "Finding Nemo". 

Kazooie is a Breegull. She and her kind had long been renowned for their amazing features: beaks hard enough to pierce steel, feathers that seem to defy gravity, and eggs that can do...well, seemingly just about ANYTHING they want them to. But now she's the last of her kind...or at least she's never ran into another Breegull since her own parents abandoned her to escape from Gruntilda, the one responsible for their near-extinction (or so Kazooie initially thinks; she later learns that her parents were leading Gruntilda AWAY so they could protect Kazooie from her [as birds have been known to do in nature]). 

As a result she has an understandably cynical outlook and generally isn't all too pleasant or trusting towards anyone. She eventually joins up with a circus run by Conga (I know he doesn't do this until Banjo-Tooie, but like I said I'm mixing things up for the best story) who uses her eggs and feathers to enhance his circus but keeps her part in everything a secret (as she wants, so as to not to expose herself). He's a total jerk but it's room and board so she puts up with it until she overhears him making a deal with Gruntilda for a small fortune (and magical support for his circus) in exchange for Kazooie. She ends up having to escape by emptying out and hiding in an unattended backpack belonging to a certain someone.

When Banjo and Kazooie discover her she weaves them an embellished (but not entirely untrue) sob story and convinces them to let her stay, proceeding to uproot and disrupt their lives in one way after another as she uses them to get away from Gruntilda and her minions: Mingy (scary cyborg bounty hunter), Klungo (her personal flunky) and Conga (who likewise is after Kazooie for the reward). Along the way Kazooie starts to open up, grow fond on the two bears, and learns the "true meaning of family" and whatnot.

Gruntilda, for her part, still wants the same thing she did in the game: to cast a spell that will make her beautiful. But when she tried, her magic talking Mirror (she'll have one of those now) told her that it was an "Impossible Spell" which would require her to pay an 'impossible price': "a golden feather from every Breegull alive" (in my universe each Breegull has one golden feather hidden among their red ones).  The PROBLEM is Breegull's were very prolific back when she first learned the spell were spread all over the world; so by the time she could get a feather from all the gulls on one continent there'd be a new generation somewhere else she'd ALSO need the feathers from. On TOP of that the golden feathers are VERY special to the Breegulls and not a single one of them would give it up willingly. 

So, in order to make the "impossible" spell possible, she decided to get rid of all the Breegulls so that she only needs to get the feather from the LAST one (Kazooie) and thus she'll have one from "every Breegull alive".

...yeah, she's SUPER evil.

Of course, the final ironic/tragic twist is that even once she get's Kazooie's golden feather in the climax (who'll surrenders it to save Banjo and Tootie, obviously ) the spell doesn't work because at this point Banjo and Tootie will have helped Kazooie to remember the truth about what her parents really did for her and to love them again, and so the Mirror will say that as along as that's the case then Kazooie's parents (and all her kind) will never really be gone (corny, yes, but I love it ) and so Gruntilda still needs ALL their golden feathers, which is at this point, of course, "Impossible" in more ways than one.

Naturally Gruntilda's LOSES IT and tuns into some kinda of huge monster (sort of resembling 'Old King Coal' from the game but more; it'd be awesome/scary looking) and mortally wounds Kazooie as she tries to protect Banjo/Tootie. Everybody's sad but they notice her golden feather is still glowing and Tootie remembers an earlier moment in the movie where Kazooie had said (as one of her many wild brags) that the Breegulls were descended from Pheonix and together she and Banjo use the golden feather to revive her as well as give her to power necessary to go airborne with Banjo and take out monster Gruntilda. Afterwards the Mirror tells them that the reason making Gruntilda beautiful was an "Impossible Spell" was because 'true beauty is more than skin deep' and there was no magic in the world powerful enough to make HER "beautiful". 

Kazooie of course asks why he didn't tell Gruntilda that in the first place to which he replies 1. That Gruntilda wouldn't have believed him and 2. that he never actually said that Kazooie IS the LAST Breegull (sequel hook ) before winking and fading away.

With that, Banjo, Kazooie and Tootie are now a "family" (because there's all kinds) and they start off on their next adventure.

...why y'all make me write so much?
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Comments: 5

Procar [2018-07-06 10:39:22 +0000 UTC]

Holy freaking potatoes! o.o!

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AidenAtorX [2018-06-27 23:26:03 +0000 UTC]

Art style looks very similar to your "freedom" style (unless of course it is). I love it. Call me uncultured and missing out but I've never played ANY of the Banjo games....not even nuts and bolts.

Depressing I know.

I do have a basic idea of the first game's plot so I could see the similarities between it and your take and you know what? I'd watch this. It sounds like it'd be a pretty damn good film.

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Vederick In reply to AidenAtorX [2018-06-28 02:35:38 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad to hear that last statement since the biggest obstacle for these sorts of things is people not familiar with the property being turned off for fear they won't be able to follow the plot.

I only played the first game, myself (and I didn't even finish it ), and from what I've heard you didn't miss anything passing on Nuts&Bolts.

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AidenAtorX In reply to Vederick [2018-06-28 12:12:06 +0000 UTC]

Yeah I heard Nuts and bolts was pretty.....disappointing.

I guess that's a problem with any film being based off a video game; lack of knowledge of source material. I guess a series would have to be big enough for ppl to think it is worthy of a film but there's always someone who would probably watch it without knowing the game it's based on.

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Vederick [2018-06-27 17:36:45 +0000 UTC]

Oh, my god - SO sorry this took so long (especially considering what it ended up being). The major hiccup was the art; I played around with several different styles and looks for everyone, combining classic N64 traits with some of the 'cube-ism' of Nuts&Bolts along with just my own take on the look of everything.  Tootie in particular took a lot more work than I would have initially imagined.

The concept also changed a few times, too. The first was for a series and a wild departure from the world established in the game, but then I decided a movie inculcating points from both the first and second game would make for a tighter, more coherent (and more faithful) adaptation. 

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