Sep 19, 2007 22:01
Ever since I can remember some movies have received criticism for their lack of 'plot.' I have always wondered why that is, why people need to have a driving narrative to establish it as a worthy film. Would it's appeal be that people need a story that is so removed from their own life that it can be summed up with a beginning and an end within 100 minutes that would be so rare in a regular civilian's life that ever if it was a story worth telling it would span over a long period of time with heaps of shit in between to make it evident as a worthwhile story, it would be clouded with all those irrelevant moments such as internet conversations to build up one's emotions toward the relevant 'plot.'
Why has plot become so necessary in film and video game when hardly any of the audience can relate to the subject at hand? Obviously it is the oldest form of entertainment being 'story telling' but why has realistic and relative 'plot' been abandoned in most forms besides song?
This leads me to my main point of sport, and it being one of the most important narratives this world has to offer. In it's true essence, sport can be seen as an art, where 1,2,10,12,22,28 or 36 men or women (etc) basically role play under the same strict environment to create such a real version of 'PLOT.' The difference between sport, music, film , novel and computer game is the fact that it's real and told in real time. Nothing can be truer or honest than sport in it's exploration of 'plot' within it's governed time limit.
Personally I can not understand what there is not to love and appreciate of sport if you indeed appreciate music, film, novel and video game. It is still performed under the bounds of your own physical and mental state to create entertainment, the only difference is it is performed live under the gaze of many without corrections of errors which is the is the most magnetic for fans.... see Manchester United, West Coast Eagles and Brazil for details.
Back in the day of the true origins of music and theater being performed live held it's entertainment, with the new dvd boom could we see classic sporting events being sold as pop culture? With mass audiences purchasing these items to sit back, appreciate and marvel at the skill in which a gathering of humans can astound and entertain to create 'plots' that may never be forgotten?
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPORT AND ART!!!?!?!?!