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The Movie Remake Thread
Surgoshan:
They're remaking Barbarella.
Inlander:
Which means in the future we can look forward to some band being the reincarnation of Duran Duran.
Border Reiver:
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--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 04 Aug 2009, 20:07 ---So what people actually find entertaining?
Remember that Shakespeare was considered to be pandering to the lowest common denominator to put bums in the theatre to make money. I'm not saying that people like Uwe Boll will be considered to be this period's Shakespeare (my money would be that in 400 years they'll be looking at Mr. G. Lucas and S, Spielberg's works), but that if no one goes to see what you make, or that it is unreachable to the public you've failed as an entertainer.
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I'm sure quite a lot of worthwhile authors and film auteurs are perfectly fine with failing as entertainers! That's where the art part comes in. Which is not to say that things that are thoroughly entertaining, and are very successful entertainment, cannot be artful, but it is not the inherent point of art to be entertaining.
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Perhaps not, but to be successful at getting your artistic vision across you have to be accessible to your audience. If nobody wants to watch your work, look at your paintings, listen to your music - does your vision really matter?
a pack of wolves:
I don't really believe in inaccessible art. Or rather, that the only thing I've ever seen that could be described in that way was absolutely fascinating because of its inaccessible nature so it doesn't make sense as a description of art nobody can get anything from. Similarly, it's hard to think of art nobody at all likes. Even the worst regarded films have their supporters (my Mum and I will go to bat for the worth of Barb Wire any day). There's also a large disparity between what people find entertaining and what they think is interesting and worthwhile. Francis Bacon is an immensely popular painter but can you imagine anyone calling Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion entertaining?
De_El:
Well, of course it matters. It may not matter on a broad-based cultural level, but taking the idea to its logical extreme, some art is made by an artist simply because the artist feels compelled to make it. In this case, it matters to the artist and it might not, even probably does not matter to anyone else. But who cares? Who says art has to be made with an audience in mind? Art doesn't need an audience.
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