Literary HackWhere In The World Is The Movie Sequel
December 6th 2008 23:19
Yet another film company has decided to try to make a franchise of a good movie. Warner Bros has decided to make a prequel to the film I am Legend.
With the recent onslaught of movie prequels, I feel like a player in an old game circling the globe looking for Carmen Sandiego.
I've been to Katmandu and back again and still all I can find is a laughing amateur bandit in place of the master thief. In this case, that mastermind is every motion picture company that has opted for a prequel instead of a sequel. The money hungry corporations making their pockets just a little bit fatter yet again.
What atrocities have been carried out in the name of prequels!
The first three episodes of Star Wars to name a few. Whatever bumble headed idiot allowed the Jar-Jar Binks character to be considered, much less come into existence in the Star Wars universe should be shot.
The whole idea of a prequel is slightly preposterous to begin with. If an author or screenwriter began telling a tale in the middle and through the course of that story never filled in the back-story, well then shame on them. That is bad story telling, plain and simple.
Most stories work just fine without going back two, three or more decades to give more insight into the main characters' lives. If the original fiction stood well enough on it's own to sell copies or fill theaters, then it did its job. I don't need to see some snotty nosed runt playing the character as a child to have a sense of closure with why they became whom they ultimately turned out to be.
The sequel makes much more sense. Fans become so interested in a character or story they want to know what happens next. This is human nature and what makes people stay in their seat at the movie theater in the first place.
Motion picture studios give up the prequel racket already. It is never as good as the original or even the sequel had there been one.
With the recent onslaught of movie prequels, I feel like a player in an old game circling the globe looking for Carmen Sandiego.
What atrocities have been carried out in the name of prequels!
The first three episodes of Star Wars to name a few. Whatever bumble headed idiot allowed the Jar-Jar Binks character to be considered, much less come into existence in the Star Wars universe should be shot.
The whole idea of a prequel is slightly preposterous to begin with. If an author or screenwriter began telling a tale in the middle and through the course of that story never filled in the back-story, well then shame on them. That is bad story telling, plain and simple.
Most stories work just fine without going back two, three or more decades to give more insight into the main characters' lives. If the original fiction stood well enough on it's own to sell copies or fill theaters, then it did its job. I don't need to see some snotty nosed runt playing the character as a child to have a sense of closure with why they became whom they ultimately turned out to be.
The sequel makes much more sense. Fans become so interested in a character or story they want to know what happens next. This is human nature and what makes people stay in their seat at the movie theater in the first place.
Motion picture studios give up the prequel racket already. It is never as good as the original or even the sequel had there been one.
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