别再给 remix culture 贴金了
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sunoxen | #4 | 14:29 on Sun, Feb. 7 | Reply
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Well, yeah, sure. I mean, this whole remix thing. I mean Shakespeare “remixed” an Italian short story called “Un Capitano Moro” to write Othello, and based Iago on a very similar character.
Here’s the thing, though. He ADDED to it, he brought his own genius to it, he changed it haphazardly to make things better. He destroyed it and rebuilt it in his image.
That’s the problem with a lot of this current mashup culture, there’s no pushing it to the next level.
I mean, sure, miracles happen, like when Girl Talk brings together Biggie and Elton John in “Smash Your Head,” but really, where is the really, truly inspirational, complex, animated, forceful and lasts in your head more than 2 seconds. Please enlighten me.
I think the problem is that we are constructing a incestual culture where easy access to media just makes everything bland and razor-thin sentimental. I mean when John Hughes wrote “The Breakfast Club” he didn’t care about referencing some hip, knowing, and simple meta-narrative, he wanted to create something ORIGINAL.
That’s the danger in all of this. Where are our original ideas, instead of being something clever. You show me a video of a bunch of hipsters trying to emulate the video, but I ask the seminal creative question that should be the first thing a creator pays attention to, which is “Who gives a crap?”
And really, when Homer first starting writing crap down, he was all about a “social experience” of oral storytelling. I’m sorry, having 19 kids get together in Mumbai and do the same hipster dance really doesn’t impress me.
Get some hipsters together to do their hipster version of “Faust” or even the hipster version of the airplane bomber or whatever, add to it, like theater troupes are doing in London such as Punch Drunk. Don’t just get together for some narcissistic afternoon, do something serious and meaningful to everyone, not just to your reflection in the mirror.
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