History Film / BitterLake

Not to be confused with the 2015 {{Documentary}} with [[SimilarlyNamedWorks the same name]], or the ''actual'' Bitter Lake in UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, Washington.

-->"After more than a decade of peace the proud and noble kingdom of Valanor is suddenly torn apart by a terrible civil war. After 12 years, when the dust settles and resources start to dwindle, the starving people of Valanor cry out for peace, forcing the leaders of Tier, Sinnah, Daneth and Osgard to lay down their arms and meet each other at the negotiation table. As each province prepares an envoy to find a diplomatic solution at the Kingdom's only neutral ground, an ancient and dark organization plots its return. Unbeknownst to the leaders of the four warring provinces this old enemy will stop at nothing to crush any hope of lasting peace. Can the four envoys put their old hatreds aside and forge a bond of trust? Or will those that crave the blood and terror of war get their way? Whatever the outcome, the fate of Valanor will be decided... at Bitter Lake."

''Bitter Lake'' is the first full-length live-action movie created specifically to cater to a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] audience. The entire film is performed in full fursuits, shot entirely in France. 41 minutes long, the movie consists mostly of static dialog scenes as the characters first hold the actual peace talks, then switch briefly to a paranoid {{Whodunnit}} when they start getting killed. There's one short action scene near the end.

Not to be confused with the ''actual'' Bitter Lake in Seattle, Washington.

* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: The real Careth is shown for less than a minute before his imposter intercepts and murders him.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Belora has just enough time after the long debate scene to have a brief ShipTease moment with Arden before she's assassinated, sending the men into a paranoid frenzy.

* EvilGloating: After everyone else is dead, [[spoiler: Careth meets his employer, Arden's brother, who then proceeds to explain his plot in detail. Then he kills Careth]].

* ActingForTwo: Stoelbank plays both Prince Arden and Atrius the Stormbringer [[spoiler: aka Arden's brother Aelric]]. Rin was both Belora and the messenger. Drraer and Careth were both voiced by Dylan Nagel. While Arden and the Narrator were voiced by Shay/Michael Wolf Visser, who was also the Producer.

* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: [[spoiler; Careth was the guy who murdered the king. The assassin impersonating him mocks Drraer by asking him how it feels to have a king's blood on his hands. Drraer is the only other person to know about it.]]

* [[spoiler: RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Careth apparently has a history of shady dealings and mercenary tendencies, so Arden's brother kills him after he's finished explaining the rest of the plot to keep him from doing anything traitory.]]

* SuccessionCrisis: Arden is the crown prince of Valanor, and he would have taken the throne had his father not been assassinated while he was still a child. At the peace talks, one of his demands is that he be instated as king in the reunited Valanor.

''Bitter Lake'' is the first full-length live-action movie created specifically to cater to a [[Krystal furry]] audience. The entire film is performed in full fursuits, shot entirely in France. 41 minutes long, the movie consists mostly of static dialog scenes as the characters first hold the actual peace talks, then switch briefly to a paranoid {{Whodunnit}} when they start getting killed. There's one short action scene near the end.

''Bitter Lake'' is the first full-length live-action movie created specifically to cater to a [[FurryFandom furry]] audience. The entire film is performed in full fursuits, shot entirely in France. 41 minutes long, the movie consists mostly of static dialog scenes as the characters first hold the actual peace talks, then switch briefly to a paranoid {{Whodunnit}} when they start getting killed. There's one short action scene near the end.

* FurryFandom: The target audience.

"After more than a decade of peace the proud and noble kingdom of Valanor is suddenly torn apart by a terrible civil war. After 12 years, when the dust settles and resources start to dwindle, the starving people of Valanor cry out for peace, forcing the leaders of Tier, Sinnah, Daneth and Osgard to lay down their arms and meet each other at the negotiation table. As each province prepares an envoy to find a diplomatic solution at the Kingdom's only neutral ground, an ancient and dark organization plots its return. Unbeknownst to the leaders of the four warring provinces this old enemy will stop at nothing to crush any hope of lasting peace. Can the four envoys put their old hatreds aside and forge a bond of trust? Or will those that crave the blood and terror of war get their way?

Whatever the outcome, the fate of Valanor will be decided... at Bitter Lake."

That's what the synopsis on the website says. As a description of the plot, it serves. As a description of the ''movie''...not quite.

''Bitter Lake'' has the dubious distinction of being one of the first live-action movies created specifically to cater to a [[FurryFandom furry]] audience; the entire thing is performed in full fursuits. Unfortunately, it has the unambiguous shame of not being very good. Interminable at only 41 minutes long, the movie consists mostly of static dialog scenes as the characters first hold the actual peace talks, then switch briefly to a paranoid {{Whodunnit}} when they start getting killed. There's one short action scene near the end, and then it's right back to ceaseless prattle.

* EvilGloating: After everyone else is dead, [[spoiler: Careth meets his employer, Arden's brother, who then proceeds to explain his plot in exhaustive detail. Then he kills Careth]].
* FunnyAnimalAnatomy: Belora and Arden have digitigrade feet. Careth and Drraer have plantigrade. The disparity is because, rather than being custom-tailored for the movie, the actors just added faux-medieval costumes to their own fursuits.

* MilkingTheGiantCow: Since the faces have precisely one movement (opening and closing the mouth), the actors all hilariously overact their body language to try and sell the acting.
* ObfuscatingDisability: The brother of one of the main characters gets mentioned twice: once in the movie and once on the movie's website. Both times he's alluded to as being mentally disabled. Then he actually appears at the end, and it turns out he's actually not retarded in the slightest; his brother just always said he was on account of everyone in this movie is a giant, gaping asshole, and everyone else ever just automatically believed it.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The cast and crew are credited as their fursuiter nicknames instead of the names on their birth certificates. Presumably anyone who gives a slap knows who they are.

* {{Whodunnit}}: The last ten minutes or so of the movie is a paranoid scramble by the diplomats to find out which one of them is the assassin before they all end up killed. This pretty much comes down to a cheap swordfight between Drraer and Careth.