I’m not referring to any specific medium, nor is the bottom panel necessarily referring to modern times either.
It’s just a shower thought where I recognized that some of the most revered legends and mythologies are basically just another clusterfuck of retellings and adaptations to new influences that we nowadays would probably just call prequels, sequels, reboots, deconstructions etc. But tbh, it’s not that deep, just a shower thought.
And I agree with you in principle, but in implementation I differ.
There’s a huge difference between taking something that has been extant for seven hundred years and remaking it in a new way, and something that came out four years ago, and redoing it, because you think you can do it better now or you can squeeze more money out of it.
I mean, look at the difference between every movie version of King Arthur and Monty Python’s quest for the Holy Grail. It draws from the same well, and yet produces vastly different results.
Remaking a movie but doing it with CGI instead of animation, ala Disney, does not carry the same artistic merit.
Taking the humor and childish glee out of an animated series, ala Disney, and redoing it as a serious, epic martial arts powered battle for ancient China does not have the same artistic merit.
And while it is very likely that a new king Arthur movie would retread the same safe, well-worn ground, there’s always the chance they could put a new spin on it, or take it to an interesting place, and make it worth the watch.
I’m not referring to any specific medium, nor is the bottom panel necessarily referring to modern times either.
It’s just a shower thought where I recognized that some of the most revered legends and mythologies are basically just another clusterfuck of retellings and adaptations to new influences that we nowadays would probably just call prequels, sequels, reboots, deconstructions etc. But tbh, it’s not that deep, just a shower thought.
And I agree with you in principle, but in implementation I differ.
There’s a huge difference between taking something that has been extant for seven hundred years and remaking it in a new way, and something that came out four years ago, and redoing it, because you think you can do it better now or you can squeeze more money out of it.
I mean, look at the difference between every movie version of King Arthur and Monty Python’s quest for the Holy Grail. It draws from the same well, and yet produces vastly different results.
Remaking a movie but doing it with CGI instead of animation, ala Disney, does not carry the same artistic merit.
Taking the humor and childish glee out of an animated series, ala Disney, and redoing it as a serious, epic martial arts powered battle for ancient China does not have the same artistic merit.
And while it is very likely that a new king Arthur movie would retread the same safe, well-worn ground, there’s always the chance they could put a new spin on it, or take it to an interesting place, and make it worth the watch.