become a hideous sea creature or death?
pirates of the carribean is the awesome. pirates of the caribbean is an even better movie. and davy jones is my hero.
story tellers have been telling stories for so long, it's difficult to come up with truely unique ideas. at no point in time are you going to be able to tell a story that is single and stands so above everything else that it is truely new. i think this has to do a lot with cultural icons. things that we latch onto in the world of fantasy. i'm not going to go into a long discussion on the topic, largely cause most of it would be coming out of the seat i'm sitting upon, but i just wanted to put out some ideas on the topic. people are too easy to ridicule something because it is not new. because it is so easy to say, 'but they did that in _____ movie.' of course such and such movie is similar to _____ movie. that's because ____ movie was based on blah blah book, which in turn was inspired by so-and-so's legend, which has roots in that-mythological-tradition over there. the story elements of our culture are going to be repeated over and over again. it's not the plot elements that are new. it's not even the characters that are new. it's the way they are woven together and told that are new and exciting.
with the release of 'dead man's chest' it is very easy to corralate pirates to star wars (we're talkin' the good trilogy here). the plot points, the characters, even some of the action sequences, connect very closely together. but to write off pirates (and there are people out there who will), simply because there are considerable similarities in plot and character development to movies that have come before is to deny the art of what pirates is. it's a story. stories are ment to be told and retold.
this goes even for the movies that are getting re-made. people complain about a movie's remake, because if a movie is already there, why retell the story? well, the reason to retell the story is exactly that. it's a STORY. stories are MENT TO BE RETOLD. we'll be retelling stories for a long, long time. that's what history is. as long as we keep the essencial facts (plot points) we can pretty much do what we want. micheal bay pretty much proved that... (curse you micheal bay!)
anyhow, after all that, i have one last command: go see pirates of the caribbean: dead man's chest!
story tellers have been telling stories for so long, it's difficult to come up with truely unique ideas. at no point in time are you going to be able to tell a story that is single and stands so above everything else that it is truely new. i think this has to do a lot with cultural icons. things that we latch onto in the world of fantasy. i'm not going to go into a long discussion on the topic, largely cause most of it would be coming out of the seat i'm sitting upon, but i just wanted to put out some ideas on the topic. people are too easy to ridicule something because it is not new. because it is so easy to say, 'but they did that in _____ movie.' of course such and such movie is similar to _____ movie. that's because ____ movie was based on blah blah book, which in turn was inspired by so-and-so's legend, which has roots in that-mythological-tradition over there. the story elements of our culture are going to be repeated over and over again. it's not the plot elements that are new. it's not even the characters that are new. it's the way they are woven together and told that are new and exciting.
with the release of 'dead man's chest' it is very easy to corralate pirates to star wars (we're talkin' the good trilogy here). the plot points, the characters, even some of the action sequences, connect very closely together. but to write off pirates (and there are people out there who will), simply because there are considerable similarities in plot and character development to movies that have come before is to deny the art of what pirates is. it's a story. stories are ment to be told and retold.
this goes even for the movies that are getting re-made. people complain about a movie's remake, because if a movie is already there, why retell the story? well, the reason to retell the story is exactly that. it's a STORY. stories are MENT TO BE RETOLD. we'll be retelling stories for a long, long time. that's what history is. as long as we keep the essencial facts (plot points) we can pretty much do what we want. micheal bay pretty much proved that... (curse you micheal bay!)
anyhow, after all that, i have one last command: go see pirates of the caribbean: dead man's chest!