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What happens when the people writing screenplays and books are getting their experiences from movies and books instead of living their lives?
by klodolph 4y ago
What happens when the people writing screenplays and books are getting their experiences from movies and books instead of living their lives?
- greenhearth 4y agoThey create satire. Everything will be a joke, eventually.
- Kalq 4y agoYou get anime
- andybak 4y agoThat's been the case for large chunks of culture for quite a while now. (In part that's what post-modernism was about.)
- klodolph 4y agoCan you elaborate on the post-modernism comment?
- andybak 4y agoAt risk of exposing my rather shallow knowledge of the topic, one aspect of PoMo is "everything is an inauthentic quote of something else and everything has already been done to death - so embrace irony and self-reference and achieve sincerety by self-awareness of your own insincerity".
- klodolph 4y agoThis sounds like pop art—which some see as a precursor to post-modern art, and some see as an early type of post-modern art.
- rjh29 4y agoTo some extent this already happens right? Popular fiction has its own laws for pacing, style of dialogue, tropes, the way characters behave etc. that is highly influenced from the canon of fiction before it and totally different to real life. Readers expect and anticipate this.