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"We've traced his ancestors back 500 years....to the assassin's creed."?

posted 8 years ago by james_juhn
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"We've traced his ancestors back 500 years....to the assassin's creed."

Was anyone else annoyed by this sentence (by Jeremy Iron's Alan Rikkin)?

It just felt awkward and weird.

There are plenty of better alternatives than putting "to the assassin's creed", such as:

"We've traced his ancestors back 500 years....to the Spanish Assassins."

"We've traced his ancestors back 500 years....to the Spanish Inquisition."

"We've traced his ancestors back 500 years....to the assassin Aguilar."

Heck, if they wanted to leave out the word Spanish (since Marion says "Welcome to the Spanish Inquisition" later in the trailer), or Aguilar to avoid any spoilers, they could have gone with something simple, like:

"We've traced his ancestors back 500 years....to the Assassins."

Unless the Creed (of Assassins) is important to how Templars are finding pieces of Eden, the inclusion of Creed just made no sense.

I hope this is just a editing mistake (since trailers mix up all sorts of different dialogue with different scenes), and not what's said in the movie (since I like the trailer sans this and the crap music).

[–] hernandez_harold12 8 years ago

I'm not surprised. I have no hope for this film. Theirs a bunch of other red flags. The rating is PG13 and so far the plot seems 2Dimensional with no depth. The story and violence are everything that makes the game. Even the atmosphere sucks. Especially qhen you compare it to AC2, fighting as a pirate, Native american badass, and as Jack the ripper himself

[–] gstards 8 years ago

And yet you've rated Harry Potter a 9, Suicide Squad a 7 and Captain America: Civil War a 7, The Martian a 9, and Back to The Future a 8. *facepalm*

Nolan, I love you forever!

[–] ninja_coola 8 years ago

He says he traced down his Bloodline to the Assassin's Creed. He means that the first known ancestor of Callum Lynch that was an Assassin was 500 years back.

And once again there nothing wrong with pg13 the only frickin thing you see in the games is a bloodspurt you can hardly call that R rated material.

[–] james_juhn 8 years ago

He says he traced down his Bloodline to the Assassin's Creed. He means that the first known ancestor of Callum Lynch that was an Assassin was 500 years back.

No offense (in any way whatsoever ninja coola), but that really makes no sense.

If that's what Rikkin was aiming to say (i.e. first known ancestor of Callum Lynch that was an Assassin was 500 years back), then he really should have just said "Assassins."

"We've traced his ancestors back 500 years....to the Assassins."

It's nice, short and simple (and direct to the point).
If they really wanted to have it two words, perhaps "Assassins Brotherhood" would have been better.

The Creed (i.e. three tenets) is something completely different (which you would already know, but I'm putting the link anyway):

http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/The_Creed

I know everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but for me, that line just sticks out like a sore thumb (it's a shame really, if they had gotten this line and the music right, it would have been a perfect trailer for me).

[–] DrNarud 8 years ago

"We've traced his ancestors back 500 years....to the Assassins."

It's nice, short and simple (and direct to the point).
If they really wanted to have it two words, perhaps "Assassins Brotherhood" would have been better.

So it's a miss-step in understanding the game world or background? If that's the case, then it could be, but not necessarily is, the first red flag concerning what I thought could go wrong with this particular adaptation i.e. if they make an original movie set in the game universe, there's a chance that you could still mess it up if the director misunderstands the elements that make it unique and appealing.

Basically there's always the possibility that if the movie is too close to the game, it could fail because it could alienate general audiences even while making fans happy but if it's an original story or simply a looser adaptation, then there's still the possibilityl to misunderstand the source material and then not only alienate fans but general audiences too for simply not being a good movie (which is an even worse disaster). Trust me, I've seen enough video game movies fail to know what can go wrong with them.

That being said, I should say that at this point, there's absolutely no reason to believe that the movie will be that second kind of disaster because Ubisoft (the game studio) being involved in the production should of prevented that from happening. The fact that they said he was traced back to "The Assassin's Creed" rather than "The Brotherhood of Assassins" is probably just a blemish that doesn't affect the rest of the movie, though it is still worrying that they'd make that kind of mistake. We won't know until we see the movie and see what it means in context. I do hope that it's a good movie simply because I want to see at least one video game movie click so that it opens the doorways to other good video game adaptations.

[–] piajet 8 years ago

If you examine the waveform, it's apparently not in the film

[–] ThelVadam 8 years ago

Examine the... what?

I'm genuinely interested, I just have no idea what that is lol!

[–] Cormey 8 years ago

"We've traced his ancestors back 500 years....to the assassin's creed."

Requescat in pace, Assassin's Creed movie.

[–] tanel-trei-001 8 years ago

That line really made me gringe. The correct line would be "We've traced his ancestors back 500 years to the order of assassins" or something.

[–] UsmanSyed 8 years ago

So where did you get your Masters Degree on nitpicking ?

-Do me a favor and buy yourself a brain

[–] Gurtinator 8 years ago

Maybe the Assassins Creed was a group formed by Inquisition assassins?

Though really the name Assassins Creed really only fits the first game anyways, where the Creed itself was integral to the plot. In the rest of the games they just sort of shoehorn in some of the characters talking about it so they can justify using it.

"So it goes" -Slaughterhouse Five

[–] MCoop25 8 years ago

Yeah that line was cringy and I'm hoping it was just for a title drop. It either should have just been "...to the Assassins" or "...to the Assassin Brotherhood." or even "...to the Brotherhood."