How would they show Aerith's death in a remake?

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This is an interesting question that's came up in conversation a few times lately, so I decided to make a thread on it.

If they remade FFVII for the PS3, or whatever. How do you think they would show Aerith's death? With blood, or without blood?

I really can't decide. I think if they show blood the age rating for the game would go up, since I would imagine it to be quite a gory scene - and it's unavoidable. However, if they didn't show blood, I can't imagine how they'd show Aerith's death realistically, which I'm guessing they'd have to do with the graphics available with the PS3...

Thoughts?
 
I don't think they'd use a mass amount of blood - besides, Seph's sword is pretty thin. They might drag it out a bit, and Aerith might grip her torso so that again, we'd see less blood.
I think it would be more emotional, especially since it's better graphics, making it more real. But if there was an overload of blood, it would make it less.. idk. Profound? It would make it more gorey than heartbreaking. After all, Romeo and Juliet didn't die in a pool of blood, did they?
 
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I think they would show blood, not an overabundance of it, but it would certainly be there. It's been proven in both Crisis Core and ACC, that Sephiroth's sword most certainly CAN draw blood. It's not a special metal that can't like some people have said.
During Cloud and Sephiroth's extended fight scene in ACC, Cloud gets slashed up by Seph's sword pretty damn bad and he bleeds, but not a lot, he just bleeds some.

I feel that Aerith, like B said, Aerith would probably grip at her stomach or something like that, or we'll just see the sword penetrated through her torso and blood began to well up underneath her dress and stain it. We might see some droplets of it, but I doubt you're going to see anything excessively gory. I think SE would want to show just enough blood to make her death scene have an even stronger and more heartbreaking impact than before.
 
Thinking about it, I think I rather they didn't show blood. Like, I'm sure the lack of blood might have been due to graphic constraints at the time, but when I had first watched the scene, I thought the lack of blood was probably symbolic; Aerith was so pure she didn't bleed. Yeah, I know, pretty stupid, but I was young at the time >.<

I wonder if they would change her death a bit? Maybe make it more dramatic by making her say something, like how Zack's death was changed to be more drawn out and dramatic in Crisis Core
and in ACC
compared to how his death was portrayed in FFVII O.O
 
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I think it would be the same as on Advent Children, the little scene they show at the beginning, but obviously extended.

So have Sephiroth dropping, but then not actually see the sword pierce her, just see her arms move and her head drop down.

Then from there, whatever.
 
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I think that a small but realistic amount of blood is necessary. Aerith isn't immortal so therefore she should bleed like anybody else.

I hate it when some movies take it to the extreme and make it look like they lost more blood then they would have even had in their body to start with. <_<

Sephy's sword is only really thin and makes a pretty clean cut straight through her, so you would only expect to see a small dabble on the front and back around where the sword struck through.

Most people would in that situation hold onto their stomach and so I think I'd expect to see her hands covered in some blood a bit too.

But yeah, if they made the scene without blood, it wouldn't feel as real and such. It'd feel kinda weird to see someone get stabbed and see no sign of blood when they are meant to be human.
 
Zack is the only character in the compilation whom I have ever seen really bleed, regardless of graphic capabilities. I think there's symbolism in that.
I wouldn't mind either way what they did with Aerith, but perhaps it would make more sense that she didn't bleed, seeing as she 'lives on' through the Lifestream so-to-speak.
 
Fusionist said:
Thinking about it, I think I rather they didn't show blood. Like, I'm sure the lack of blood might have been due to graphic constraints at the time, but when I had first watched the scene, I thought the lack of blood was probably symbolic; Aerith was so pure she didn't bleed. Yeah, I know, pretty stupid, but I was young at the time >.<

I wonder if they would change her death a bit? Maybe make it more dramatic by making her say something, like how Zack's death was changed to be more drawn out and dramatic in Crisis Core
and in ACC
compared to how his death was portrayed in FFVII O.O
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Maybe Squeenix could wrench our hearts from our chests and then smush it under their foot by making her say "Cloud.." and reaching for him with one hand - before Sephiroth takes out his sword, although when he takes it out it should be swift, so the actual dying is prolonged and it seems more like Sephiroth doesn't really care. And then when the sword is taken out, a shot to Cloud's eyes as she falls to the ground clutching her chest.
They can go from there. Ma
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ybe they could show the hand that she reached out to him with covered in blood, as a symbolistic thing. :gasp:

I'm so vair specific aren't I ;D

Also, if they make it so that it takes half an hour for her to die, with her saying "OH CLOUD OUR LOVE SHALL GO ON FOREVER I'LL BE IN UR HEARTZ", I will stab the creator in the neck.
We know they have an endless love (No offense Cloti fans :-) ) because of the way it's portrayed in Advent Children and otherwise. She's always with him, but as she dies she doesn't need to say so. I don't want her to say much, actually. The "Cloud.." would be the thing that snaps us out of our OMG trance as we wondered at what was happening.

:randompoke: Do it Squeenix. Do it. :randompoke:
 
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If there was a remake this is most likely how Aerith's death would go down:

She would be stabbed and all that stuff. Nothing much will change, other than the detail and graphics. Blood spurting out and covering everything would never happen. To keep it's gracefulness, there would be little to no blood. If there would be blood, there would be some leaking through the front of her dress from the wound.

But how would she die if there was no blood? The wound couldn't be that bad if there is no blood, right? Wrong. By the time she is stabbed and dies, one wound is inflicted and not that much time passes. Therefore, not much blood would be seen anyways. Then, you also have the fact that the blood probably severs the spine in three places (seeming how long it is and the location she was stabbed). This could cause death almost instantly on it's own (depending where on the spine is severed). You also have the fact that major organs could have been hit, causing internal bleeding (not being seen much on the outside right away). Or that giant sword of his cuts the organs up so bad that they are completely useless and beyond time and repair.

Maybe Aerith just let death take her? Nah. I really find that cliche' and out of her character... she wasn't even expecting it. I know it.

And that's what I have to say on the subject at hand.
 
OZpajamas said:

She would be stabbed and all that stuff. Nothing much will change, other than the detail and graphics. Blood spurting out and covering everything would never happen. To keep it's gracefulness, there would be little to no blood. If there would be blood, there would be some leaking through the front of her dress from the wound.
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What about the way she falls? In FFXII, she just lets her chin fall to her chest before falling flat on her face. They could make it so much more emotional.

OZpajamas said:
But how would she die if there was no blood? The wound couldn't be that bad if there is no blood, right? Wrong. By the time she is stabbed and dies, one wound is inflicted and not that much time passes. Therefore, not much blood would be seen anyways.
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Unless she put her hand to her chest, or some other direct pressure was applied to it - then the blood would mark off on whatever touched her, assuming they still make his sword go straight through her.
And I don't think she would die instantly in a remake. They realised how profound we all thought it was, they'll make it more so.
 
you people think to much

this is what happens they scrap to the idea off the sword going through her and sepiroth just cuts her head off instead then he can carry two heads with him :D

No but seriously She is Human so she should bleed But they should cover the blood up as much as they can Maybe they should show blood on sepiroth's sword and Aerith's reflection on the sword when sephiroth pulls his sword away
 
I should imagine it would look like they do on AC. I think blood and gore would make it look gross instead of "sad".
 
I think there should be blood, due to the realistic graphics of the PS3. But I don't think it should be gory or disgusting as it would make the scene look too disturbing. The way she died in the PS graphics was already shocking, and I think adding some realistic blood would make it look more dramatic, but a scene with an exaggerated amount of blood would just drive the focus of her death from a sad moment to a very disturbing one.
 
Judging by what they did in Advent Children Complete, it would likely be a bit bloody. Not overly so, but messed up enough to create dramatic effect.
 
I'd assume that they would show a little bit of blood. To be honest it would look pretty stupid if they didn't show any blood at all. Usually when people get stabbed through the stomach, there is a little blood. :monster:
Rhoads said:
I should imagine it would look like they do on AC. I think blood and gore would make it look gross instead of "sad".
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My thoughts exactly, too much blood and gore would affect the mood of the scene and essentially ruin it.

So yeah, as I said before; I think they would most likely include a little bit of blood.
 
xD That's really interesting! Cleverly put together, though I'm too busy associating the frames with the various scenes they took them from...^^,
 
Chom-chom said:
xD That's really interesting! Cleverly put together, though I'm too busy associating the frames with the various scenes they took them from...^^,
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Me too xDD

There was blood when Zack died in Crisis Core and thats a 16, FFVII was 11 I think? So I cant see there being much of an issue raising the age, and lets be honest, if anythings gunna raise the age bar higher, it'l be the Wall Market scene :wacky:

Im not sure how much blood splattage would be involved at havign a clean cut right through you, but Im sure they could keep it to a minimum and still make it look real enough, its when shes on the floor as you fight Jenova that she's gunna be pissing blood and then the guys all say their goodbyes thats gunna cause the problem, she should be like, lay in a pool o f blood :gasp:
 
I dont know how I'd react seeing a graphic version of this. Blood and all...think itd be like seeing it for the first time.
 
Gorn would ruin it, I agree. I think even something subtle like a stylised drop of blood on the end of Sephiroth's sword would be enough to emphasise that the scene is different from the PG-rated violence we see throughout the rest of the game.
 
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