Rise of The Guardians Rewritten

I am SO sorry for the long wait! School’s getting tough and university applications are upon us.

So yeah, ROTG! One of my favourite movies ever.

Intro - 0:00
Jack Frost - 1:58
Tooth - 2:51
Bunny - 3:59
Pitch - 4:32
Act 1 - 5:23
Act 2 - 12:17
Act 3 - 17:07
End - 25:34

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[MrTiesk]

I absolutely love this! The one thing I would add is one or two scenes in the beginning where the kids are being reckless (like the sleigh scene in the original) and get hurt. This would tie in with the importance of fear and Pitch's return later in the movie

[katinka]

Fear as a form of inducing safety. What the heck, that idea is SO COOL. I always loved Pitch as the antagonist, because his goal was effectively the same as Jack's, but I always wondered how it would even work cause, you know, he is the boogeyman, fear, yadda yadda. But if he is SAFETY, meant to teach and give people instincts...Holy shit. it's brilliant. I adore this rewrite so much. And that freaking third act with Pitch saving the kids cause he is safety and the kids staying with him....my heart <3

[Paego_]

I love your take on Pitch. Fear is necessary, and honestly I think him adopting Halloween would make sense. I think this version lacks the "finding your core" character arc Jack goes through, but it could be easily included. It's seen as a counter to Pitch's fear in the movie, so focusing on Pitch and Jack's dynamic would naturally bring up the balance between Fun and Fear, like Sadness helping Riley feel again and then turning to being forward Joy.

[Miniae_Cecilia]

I feel jack's hoodie sorta shows how he's more in tune with the world, like how he'd change his tops to suit the time but is trousers basically stay the same because you know trousers rarely really change anyways. I'd just love to know how he got the hoodie, would have been fun to see like the wind blow away some teens blue hoodie and Jake just being like "Yonk!" And grabbing it for himself. This could maybe happen during spring rather than winter were you can still get a pretty cold wind but it's not super strange that someone may take their hoodie off.

[danielymcfarlane]

I love the fact that jack's design gives off "sassy victorian child" .

[sara_gozakam]

The whole idea of turning pitch from fear to safety was BRILLIANT

[ABagelLeftOnTheRoadside]

I had an idea for Pitch's backstory. He was a very strict father due to his protectiveness he had of his kids and his wife. This led to his relationship with his two kids getting strained, but he still tried to be gentle with them when disciplining them because he didn't want to scare them. Their conflict led to the kids rebelling by playing with fire in the house late at night when their parents were asleep. They accidentally start a fire which spreads quickly in their most likely wooden house for the time(???). Everyone ends up dying, Pitch last.
And when he became a guardian, he made sure he had learned his lesson.

[Dookieman]

I think just making Pitch more like his book counterpart would’ve made the movie much better. Corrupted father turns monster and maybe they try to save him and restore him. And maybe play into the boogeyman role where he eats kids when they get to the point they actually believe in him, see and feel him, and can be eaten by him. I think he was more of a lovecraftian monster too so it still fits and they can have a part where he can’t bring himself to hurt his daughter but everywhere he goes a part of his mind feels guilty for disturbing her because she’s literally Mother Nature, she’s everywhere.

[erinking]

Rise of the Guardians has got to be one of my favourite movies ever, I am so happy to see that people are still enthusiastic about it! I love the Pitch redemption arc as well. It always rubbed me the wrong way how the personification of fear was basically demonised, because fear is actually a good thing to have! (In healthy amounts of course)

[airheadco]

I'm gonna be honest this the rewrite i didnt know I needed

The third act is honestly perfect imo, it wraps up everything in a way the movie couldn't!
The open ending is amazing too, it could either be an opening to a sequel or a great way for kids to just add in their own guardian self insert

I'm not good with critique but you can tell I really love this video, keep up the good work mushterri :)

[heyy]

I'm not going to lie, Jack and pitch's designs are hot.


But I really love the idea of pitch representing safety, which is always important. And it kind of makes sense that he does it by scaring the kids because that's the same way parents make sure that their children are safe. They tell them how scary the outcomes of their actions could be.

[idislikelife]

I absolutely LOVE this rewrite. It'd be cool if there was a part two where you make a sequel movie that shows more of the other characters in the books. I haven't read the books but I'm sure there are more guardians there, Mother Nature perhaps?

[Green.Star_ks]

11:07 Damn my phone has great thematic timing. As soon as Sandy came my screen got brighter, but when Pitch turned the sand black my screen got darker

[Jellyfishs]

I like the idea! The Rise of The Guardians was my favorite movie as a kid.

The only problem I have with this is that the part when Sandy comes back before they help restore faith in the kids diminishes the effect of Jack helping them believe in the others. I feel like it’s a big part because the scene where he helps the last kid get his faith in Bunny back shows how Jack cares more about the others being believed in then being believed in himself.

Other than that, good job!

[jkmoon]

I like thinking Pitch was meant to be the guardian of bravery.
Like… His purpose should be the one who helped children overcome their fear by finding their internal bravery.
And the name Kozmotis Pitchiner are somewhat also something i connects with a good Pitch, so in my world his name was Kozmotis before he became Pitch. 🖤

But otherwise do i totally agree with this!❤

[threadyprawn]

Not gonna lie, I love this rewrite and designs. They're much more interesting and the story is something I'd go along with more than the original even if I love it too. I like the idea of Pitch here actually serving an importance and having a reason for existing in the first place unlike the movie counterpart where it's just, "Oogie Boogie- Let me scare again please, it makes me happy.. Where did I come from? I don't know." and the idea of a Pitch being a Guardian just warms my heart up. He's like a father figure and I love it.

[batsy_mothkin]

The idea of Pitch being a guardian of children via caution/fear is one of my favorites because in a way it also sends the message that too much of one thing can be bad, but you still need that thing in moderation. Too much wonder, too much fun, can be just as bad as too much fear. I love your redesigns as well, though for a second I really thought that Pitch was being given long hair and I was there for it. Still liked his design though, and the explanation that showed itself later with how he changes in the end.
This was beautiful, and as much as some would complain about how redesigning a work defeats its purpose or be seen in a negative light, you show that you have an appreciation for the original work and that this really was just a way to express your care for it. As much as Rise of the Guardians was a great animated movie to watch, there was just something about the ending that always troubled me. It wasn't until I was reading a fanfic from another fandom that did an au that it brought to mind how fear is a necessity in life, in proving that something may cause harm or be dangerous.
But this was a wonderful adaption of something I truly love. Thank you!

[wolftwinsinc]

Pitch is supposed represent bravery to kids


Pitch brings fear to kids (or adults), but they can forget about him by feeling brave, like at the end of the movie

Maybe that's why he was chosen

Maybe in his youth he scared people for fun, by telling them scary stories or bullying them, but the people would feel the need to stand up for themselves and not be afraid

The movie movie never specified The man in the moon only picked good people to be chosen

Pitch is supposed to bring people stand up for themselves to stop being scared, to feel stronger about themselves

As well as survival for them, to have them second guess when in danger so they don't do anything brash, like fear from inside out

So I like how you portray him, it's accurate

[champyme]

I love this! I like how Pitch gets redemption arc and all, this was a really nice remake. If I were to remake it myself if I got a chance to I feel like Id make Jack not join the Guardians at all and be more stand alone possibly (even though I do like them joining up and all) and maybe even play villian for a lil', maybe like to defy the man on the moon in a way idk, anyway this isn't a critique as I think your rewrite wrapped up the story pretty well and the designs were pretty cool, I just wanted to share some o my thoughts.

[jiromuchizuki]

I've always felt that Pitch was a necessary force. We need fear to survive. Like you said if he had been around to give fear then maybe jack and his sister would never have ended up on that thin ice. We even see that the main group of kids do unsafe things like climb on the roof looking for eggs and playing in the street. While the gaurdians definitely are mostly about protecting children, Pitch has a role that protects everyone ( If done properly). Not to forget that the books version of Pitch is actually a soldier who got taken over by fearlings. They could have done a story of saving him from them, or him overcoming them and using them for good. I always wished the ending had been the gaurdians and Pitch learning how to work together to better protect everyone.