More On Reliving the Past
21 May 2009 - 07:30.
Since my last post (and the furore it caused - no, I won't provide details) I've actually spent a lot of time thinking about how people treat and consider the past. And then last night I got hit with the 2x4 of clarity.It's Hollywood's fault!
It seems that Hollywood has completely lost all sense of creativity, and are bent on remaking every movie they think will generate a buck or two. For example, some industry bigwig decided it would be a good idea to remake Footloose. Seriously? Footloose? The thing is only 25 years old. Remaking the Italian Job 34 years later wasn't quite as bad, but still strikes me on the tight side. And don't get me started with the Batman franchise. Footloose apparently qualifies as a "cult classic". Really? Then tell me why they haven't remade Rocky Horror...
My point here is that film makers (and even TV producers) seem to have abandoned their creativity. Spin-offs of this show, remakes of that movie, it all coems back to a lack of originality. Now I'm NOT saying that we the people are at fault for absorbing his stuff; I'm only saying that production houses of the world are to blame for being constrained by the successes of the past.