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People don't have this kind of philosophical meltdown when shows are changed from one performance to the next on Broadway.
by sp332 7y ago
People don't have this kind of philosophical meltdown when shows are changed from one performance to the next on Broadway.
- akersten 7y agoThat's the expectation with live musicals and part of the reason why people go see them in the first place - it's a unique, evolving experience. Movies shouldn't be that way - they should have ISBN numbers or something - if you want to re-make it, you shouldn't just be able to erase the original. We're going to wind up in some terrible place where if you pre-order your movie ticket you can see the Target special edition of Avengers Endgame 8 that is only available in theaters for two weeks before it switches to some other version. Maybe we'll get to the point where movie theaters will just perpetually have the same film on roll and update it every couple of months with the latest patches like an MMO. Remember, your Avengers and Superman subscriptions are different. This sure makes me feel crotchety.
- shantly 7y agoI'm pretty sure highly-accurate audiovisual media are all tied up in fear of death at this point, in a way that a given live performance of something cannot be, so it bothers us when they're not eternal and unchanging, while live shows do not.