I can’t help thinking about what we are eager to lose. I am not just referring to random brands and intellectual property rights, I am referring to a culture. Certain things about our minds and hearts have always wanted to go back, and the market is there to give us.
Star Wars is a brand that has won the hearts of people around the world and acquired a cult-like status. It defines science fiction, no matter which country you are in, if you say “Luke Skywalker” or “Han Solo” or “Lightsaber”, people will immediately know what you are talking about.
Now, in our attempt to restore that sense of wonder, it is so abused and overused that when people hear the word “Star Wars,” they shrug their shoulders and go back to what they are doing. They introduced a sense of modernity to the franchise, and now the distant galaxy feels too close to home. Let us face the facts. Although some interesting derivative products have occurred, the “Star Wars” as we know it is dead.
The same is true for many other brands. “Ghostbusters”, “Terminator”, “Halloween”, “Godzilla”, and even “Independence Day” have all returned. Although the film production know-how and technical knowledge have made great progress, each of them is similar to the original. The gap. Even Disney can’t stop returning to its vault, dragging kicks and screams, one of its classics, into the present, and transforming it into a real-life shadow of its former self.
Just like drugs, we experienced amazing excitement the first time we took it, and we continued to plunge ourselves into a coma, trying to recover that feeling. We are chasing the sense of awe and surprise that we felt when we were young, but the truth is that we won’t find it back…at least not like this. The world is changing, and the things we loved in those days are solidified in that era, or are eternal and unchanging, and cannot withstand changes.
Think of the lesson taught by Jurassic Park (and also a terrible restart of the franchise), when the main characters were sitting in a room and talking about the moral issues surrounding what they had just seen. In the iconic scene, when discussing potential sales figures, the character of Jeff Goldblum brought the scientist back to such a powerful force and compared it to the child who found the father’s gun.
“It doesn’t need any discipline to get it,” he said. “You read what other people are doing, and then you take the next step. You didn’t gain knowledge for yourself. You don’t take any responsibility for it. You stand on the shoulders of genius and do something as quickly as possible. , Even before you know what patent you own, you applied for a patent for it, packaged it, and patted it on a plastic lunch box, and now you are selling it.”
The comparison here is very appropriate. In the process of growing up, we saw the works of art that defined our culture at that time, whether we admit it or not, they affect and change our lives. We quote movies in our daily conversations, and judge our position as a society based on the movies and music played at the time.
For example, how often do you compare today’s awakening and highly sensitive culture with the films of Mel Brooks?
These things are incredible powers at work, and today we see smaller minds accepting these franchises and ideas, painting them with modern paintbrushes, and then repacking them for consumption, without caring about what they are. What are they trying to teach, or what they mean to people.In some cases, do Hold a grudge against fans.
Just like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, these IPs look very interesting. When you first see the world you used to be familiar with, you will see all the glitz and glitz of modern movies in amazing entertainment. Charm, but there are some problems behind it-not to mention the danger that comes with it. This IP cannot live well in modern times. This is an anachronistic creature, and the more we let them loose, the more we lose their magic power.
Soon, the glorious part of our childhood and the meaning of these things to us will be overshadowed by Hyundai’s absurd attempts to bring back the brand-and more importantly, this feeling.
We should be able to review these things in their form, remember the lessons they must teach (if any), and move forward with new creations and ideas.This journey of nostalgia that we as a society is making is only an attempt to awaken the dead, but it Yes It’s dead, we need to let it rest. We are doing this, and we are trying to get them back and let them work when they shouldn’t be there, which is a kind of harm.
What I really want to say is that I am very angry at Netflix making a live-action version of Cowboy Bebop.
