Re: Lack of Ideas in the Commercial Sector
Posted by
Clay on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Lack-of-Ideas-in-the-Commercial-Sector-tp1506359p1506367.html
There's an old saying in Hollywood: There's only 12 original plots.
Everything else is just a variation of the theme.
The reason Hollywood appears to be suffering from "imagination
bankruptcy" is that many producers are afraid to try something new.
They would rather bank on an idea that has been tested before.
Clay
--- Pamela McCaughey <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi John and all - I have to agree with you that producers of TV and
> feature
> films have been experiencing a bad case of imagination bankruptcy.
> They are
> re-using older ideas and tweaking them to appear new, but the fans
> realize
> what is afoot. A 'new' movie called "The Island" is coming out and
> smacks
> very strongly of Logan's Run. Now this idea of Threshold which
> incorporates
> X-Files, Sphere, UFO and SeaQuest all in one. I wonder if they think
> we are
> too stupid to figure all this out?
>
> Pam the Canuck
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"So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth."
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