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My thoughts about things. |
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 Tell me if you've heard of this one... A guy fiddles around with gamma rays and ends up turning big and green. (How many movies have tried to do that one?) Or this one... Boy meets spider. Spider bites boy. Boy becomes superhero. (These are sort of like the mutant movies... which version are we on, the one with Patrick Stewart? Or the other guy? At least those were different timelines. Oh wait, the spider movies did that, too.) Or this one... He wears a black cape, has some pretty impressive canine teeth, and it isn't your necklace he is admiring. (Oh, so many here. Back before color was a thing, then in color with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, or Nicholas Cage, or sparkly ones, or - actually my favorite - as a cartoon  Bleh, bleh, bleh!)Round and round we go When will Hollywood Come up with new stuff? No one knows I started contemplating something I heard a long time ago from someone. That there are no more original musical compositions or stories. The ones being made now are just variations of different themes used in the past. I guess in some ways, I can understand this reasoning. I mean, Hollywood is pumping out the same stories just with different sets of actors. And people are still watching them. Maybe in the hopes that one will finally be good, in some cases, at least. But then, I think about genres and plot lines. How there is the 'heist' storyline or the 'hero's journey' storyline, etc. Those are templates that we use to create unique experiences for our readers. Sure, they may follow a general path that can - sometimes - be anticipated, but they have their own characters, settings and timelines. Music can sound similar because it has some of the same notes put together in a part of a song that reminds you of another, but there are only so many notes, folks. And they can only be arranged in so many ways and still sound good. And there are only so many instruments to work with. I am not a musician, by the way, but I live with a bunch of them.  I don't know. I'm just thinking that all of us that keep putting ourselves out there and trying our hearts out to create something unique for our audiences should give ourselves a pat on the back. That is unless you are writing about a guy that we wouldn't like if he gets angry... or a kid that shoots webs out of his hands... or a guy whose blood type is whatever is on the menu tonight.   Oh, what the heck, those of you writing about those guys - give yourselves pats on the back too because we love those characters. We've got room for more versions of them, bring them all! Maybe this blog post stays. Maybe I get rid of it tomorrow. I'm thinking it will stay. We'll see. |
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