I like going to the movies everytime some visual impacting work is released. Next ones I guess will be Terminator 4 and Transformers 2. But I keep asking myself: will it be the same thing all over again?
The cool good guy, that faces difficult decisions, the sexy and not helpful girl, the funny useless best friend, the villain that fails by stepping on his own shoelashes...
I guess we have plenty of character stereotypes to describe, as well as stories and backgrounds, and it starts to repeat itself over the time. Their new escape is using old characters from books or movie remakes, and (for my pleasure) comic characters. I guess Hollywood writers are running out of fuel, and so they turn to the old and well known heroes of our childhood, almost making it an obligation to check the result of their work. I just wonder what will happen when all the "main" heroes are used, and titles like Watchmen have all been visited... eventually they will turn to the books...
But new best-selling books are all about magical or evil creatures seen as tormented souls in search of redemption. They come in all flavours, but new vampires were upgraded: they can even walk in the sun! To be creative is one thing, destroying mythology is another.
Where are the new Agatha Christie's, Arthur C. Clark's, and so on? Don't tell me that all stories have been written, as someone, in the last century boldly sated that "Everything that could be invented had been already", and so came cell phones, LCD displays, the Internet, and so on. "Only when we are in the brink of extinction we have the will to change." (The only thing the remained from "The day that earth stopped")
Come think with me ;)
The cool good guy, that faces difficult decisions, the sexy and not helpful girl, the funny useless best friend, the villain that fails by stepping on his own shoelashes...
I guess we have plenty of character stereotypes to describe, as well as stories and backgrounds, and it starts to repeat itself over the time. Their new escape is using old characters from books or movie remakes, and (for my pleasure) comic characters. I guess Hollywood writers are running out of fuel, and so they turn to the old and well known heroes of our childhood, almost making it an obligation to check the result of their work. I just wonder what will happen when all the "main" heroes are used, and titles like Watchmen have all been visited... eventually they will turn to the books...
But new best-selling books are all about magical or evil creatures seen as tormented souls in search of redemption. They come in all flavours, but new vampires were upgraded: they can even walk in the sun! To be creative is one thing, destroying mythology is another.
Where are the new Agatha Christie's, Arthur C. Clark's, and so on? Don't tell me that all stories have been written, as someone, in the last century boldly sated that "Everything that could be invented had been already", and so came cell phones, LCD displays, the Internet, and so on. "Only when we are in the brink of extinction we have the will to change." (The only thing the remained from "The day that earth stopped")
Come think with me ;)
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