Bastion’s silent film wins ‘the Internet’s highest honour’

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The award was bestowed by the tasteful readers of Webby, an awards web site whose plaudits are mentioned (with out irony, we assume) by the New York Times to be ‘The Internet’s highest honour’. Specifically, they voted it 2017’s Best Writing in the film and video category.

It doesn’t even have any dialogue, thoughts, however there’s loads of writing concerned in path, characterisation, theming, and so forth. As anybody who’s seen Wall-E or the primary jiffy of Up can attest, you do not want phrases to maneuver an viewers or evoke a temper, and The Last Bastion was hailed for its illustration of the ex-killer robotic’s PTSD-like situation and budding friendship with Ganymede (the chook).

Though completely deserved, the award is much more spectacular when you think about the opposition, which included HBO satirist John Oliver and Defy Media’s ‘Honest Trailers’ sequence. Though Bastion took residence the People’s Voice award, the judges selected a 360 VR video by the New York Times, which put the viewer in a scene with the forged of a black and white movie.

The Last Bastion debuted at Gamescom in August final 12 months, in that harmless time when the Sombra ARG was nonetheless new and we had but to witness its full horror.