Looking at the recent best sellers in the box office we can observe an interesting fact. The fact that most of these titans have been either comic book hero re-creations or animations. The obvious question here would be, why?
Lets try to evaluate some predicates in order to see if we can get anywhere about this question.
1 - Recent technology has enabled producers to create such movies and animation.
Well... true... but just because they can make them now doesn't specify why they have to be best sellers. There should be much more.
2 - People have good memories from the comic books and would love to see them live on the silver screen. Nostalgia effect.
Hmm... well true... but not for everyone ... the everyone who make these movies become hits... and there are many contradicting examples too, take for instance "Kung Foo panda" or "Ratatouille" ...
3 - There are lots of action in these movies and people like action movies.
Again ... there are many action movies out there... Batman, Iron-Man and Hulk are the winners. Should be something more.
4 - The target audience for these movies are the young and they go to the movies a lot.
Only the young people alone can not halp the Dark Knight break the world records.
5 - There is something deep inside us humans that makes us love to jump into the fantasy worlds and witness the un-known and hard to imagine experiences, disconnect us for a while from the boring and repetitive world around us, show us that anything can be possible. The important keywords that can be connected to this fact are: freedom, power, randomness, hope and overcoming fear.
This one I like and delving into it can yield to beautiful facts about us humans and life.
Freedom and power are symbols that have roots in the same type of reality, randomness as opposed to full determinism is required for dynamic systems to have a chance to enhance their situations when faced with trouble, hope can have meanings when there can exist randomness that would create freedom leading to power and overcoming the fear is necessary in order to have hopes and jump into the random sea and show courage to try different things which would make you free and ultimately add to your power, add to your power because you increased your available options out of the total option state space.
Such movies, putting our "I am an intellectual and hate such movies" attitude aside, are valuable I believe ...
Lets try to evaluate some predicates in order to see if we can get anywhere about this question.
1 - Recent technology has enabled producers to create such movies and animation.
Well... true... but just because they can make them now doesn't specify why they have to be best sellers. There should be much more.
2 - People have good memories from the comic books and would love to see them live on the silver screen. Nostalgia effect.
Hmm... well true... but not for everyone ... the everyone who make these movies become hits... and there are many contradicting examples too, take for instance "Kung Foo panda" or "Ratatouille" ...
3 - There are lots of action in these movies and people like action movies.
Again ... there are many action movies out there... Batman, Iron-Man and Hulk are the winners. Should be something more.
4 - The target audience for these movies are the young and they go to the movies a lot.
Only the young people alone can not halp the Dark Knight break the world records.
5 - There is something deep inside us humans that makes us love to jump into the fantasy worlds and witness the un-known and hard to imagine experiences, disconnect us for a while from the boring and repetitive world around us, show us that anything can be possible. The important keywords that can be connected to this fact are: freedom, power, randomness, hope and overcoming fear.
This one I like and delving into it can yield to beautiful facts about us humans and life.
Freedom and power are symbols that have roots in the same type of reality, randomness as opposed to full determinism is required for dynamic systems to have a chance to enhance their situations when faced with trouble, hope can have meanings when there can exist randomness that would create freedom leading to power and overcoming the fear is necessary in order to have hopes and jump into the random sea and show courage to try different things which would make you free and ultimately add to your power, add to your power because you increased your available options out of the total option state space.
Such movies, putting our "I am an intellectual and hate such movies" attitude aside, are valuable I believe ...
3 comments:
Like Steven Tyler once said:
Lovin' you has got to be
(take me to the other side)
Like the devil in the deep blue sea
(take me to the other side)
Forget about your foolish pride
(take me to the other side)
Oh take me to the other side
(take me to the other side)
Exactly !
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