4 ms·
If I had to put money on a longbet that in all likelihood I won't live to see the outcome of, it would be anything Marvel or Disney ( with fragments of the Star
by cellis 5y ago
If I had to put money on a longbet that in all likelihood I won't live to see the outcome of, it would be anything Marvel or Disney ( with fragments of the Star Wars franchise being most likely ). Has enough global appeal and likely to have the necessary persistence.
Edit: Any religious text with sufficient population: Qu'ran, Bible, Torah, etc.
Edit 2: I realized only in the last 20 years. In that case, I stand by my original statement.
- usednet 5y agoI would argue the exact opposite and say that pretty much all of the Marvel and Disney stuff is largely lacking in artistic value and will be forgotten. I feel like people in 500 years would not be very interested in seeing 500 different variations of good guy beating bad guy.
- cellis 5y agoPerhaps, but that reminds me, I forgot to mention the Bible. Facepalm. Of course the religious texts will still exist, and provide evidence for why I disagree with you. The surviving "books of the Bible" per KJV were simply the most popular by the Church of the time, perhaps because they (I'm no theologian ) served the interests of the Church/elites better at the time. In any case, I'm betting more on "breadth", than "depth".
- muzani 5y agoI'd say most storytelling throughout history has been good guy vs bad guy. I bet there were similar stories in 1400 AD. Knight-errant was a major literary genre during that era, probably similar to the superhero genre today. Aristotle talks about three genres in Poetics: comedy, drama, and epic. He considered the epic as having the same elements as drama, but it's more reliant on song and spectacle. From the examples given, it sounds like Homer was the Stan Lee of the era.
- anotherman554 5y agoThe Marvel movie source material will be remembered (The original comic books from the 1960s). But in 500 years the movies will have repeated themselves so often I don't know if anyone will care about today's comic book adaptations. Nobody really cares about the 1910 Wizard of Oz film, for example, even if they love the 1939 later Wizard of Oz film.
- escapedmoose 5y agoTo use your analogy in the other direction: nobody talks about the Wizard of Oz source material. Were you aware the movies were based on a book? Maybe Marvel comics will go the same way.
- anotherman554 5y agoI do think people still talk about the Oz books, but it's more niche. I've personally read a few of them as well as the annotated Wizard of Oz.