Originality in entertainment

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Originality in entertainment; How much of it do we really need?
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Anonymous Friend	Jan 28 2007, 05:55 AM Post #1
Filling the gaps in my memories with wild delusions Posts: 651 Group: Member Member #1,447 Joined: May 22, 2006	Movies. Music. Television. Video Games. Books. How much originality do we have in our entertainment? Is it that big of a thing? Is it something that you look for when you go to spend you money. Me, I don't go looking for the most original thing when I go looking for my entertainment. I look for something that's going to entertain me. And that is usually something more familiar. I go for something that seems cool and fun. I was getting ready to trade in a lot of my video games and realized that 90% of what I have is licenced material and based off of some other form media. Then I hear people on TV and radio talk orginality in movies and TV and games. And it all sound like bologna to me. I don't think that there's been any original in film and television for atleast fifteen to twenty years. Everything that out there is something that we've already seem before but presented differently or from a different angle. The basic premises are borrowed from something from the past. When it comes to music, I think of it as the Reeses Peanut Butter effect. You take one thing that's ok and something else that's ok, then you kind of meld them together to form something that's almost kinda different enough to make people like it. Video games are a little different because they're relatively new. But we still see a lot of reusing of ideas within the genres. If you've played one first-person shooter, you pretty much play most of them. The only major difference is who your killing, where your killing them, why your killing them, and with what are you killing them. I guess what my brain is trying to say is why do people get so bend out of shape when the entertainment industry puts out the same thing over and over again. Especially if it's a formula that has proven time and time again to entertain us? Barring anything that completely broken and unworkable.
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Epsilonite	Jan 28 2007, 08:34 AM Post #2
Title Pending Posts: 362 Group: Member Member #1,665 Joined: August 27, 2006	Anonymous Friend Jan 27 2007, 10:55 PM I guess what my brain is trying to say is why do people get so bend out of shape when the entertainment industry puts out the same thing over and over again. Especially if it's a formula that has proven time and time again to entertain us? Although it is true that virtually everything is not original, that it is based on either something of before, the newer generation of people do not know that (yet) and it causes them to compare everything they first witnessed (the first things people witness are often the things they consider the original). Basically, the human mind works like a map; when you see something new, you fill it out and consider it to be unique, and most likely exceptionally great. Once you start seeing other things that are basically the same, you consider it inferior to what you consider "original", which is usually the first one you saw. This is why the entertainment and similar industry can get away with being unoriginal to the younger and somewhat naive audience and get blown off by the more mature and older audiences.



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