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To be honest I think it makes it more important to keep it.

by empath-nirvana 3y ago

HelloMcFly 3y ago
Perhaps artistically, but almost certainly not commercially.
- zeroCalories 3y ago
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  - HelloMcFly 3y ago
    I'm not exactly sure who you're arguing with necessarily, though the acid in your words is quite plain. Nevertheless, there is a fundamental reality that the more capital is invested in the creation of cultural for-profit creation, the more tied the product is to commercial concerns. Books can be created without any sacrifice of artistic vision, Hollywood blockbusters with budgets as they are will never be divorced from the realities of commercial viability. I didn't present this as a "good thing", anymore than it's a "good thing" that my personal well-being is associated in some degree with my own financial outlook. Ultimately I think Dune is packed with ideas, many of which are really point-in-time, and not everything can make it onto the screen in a coherent way. I thought they did a good job overall when viewed as a whole product.
    - zeroCalories 3y ago
      Your apathy on the issue is a moral judgement. You think it's not a big deal. I disagree. We should not be "adapting" art to fit modern sensibilities. I don't care if they take artistic liberties with the space ship designs, but changing key aspects of how you interpret an old the story is bad. Maybe just make your own movie instead of misrepresenting a key cultural relic.
      - HelloMcFly 3y ago
        You sound like a real peach - angry at people for observing the world as it is, inserting moral judgments about them because they're not uselessly raging at pop cultural comfort food. I don't have to give you my bona fides on the ways I try to impact the world around me, but one cannot fight every battle. No amount of righteous anger I display here - not matter how performative it would be to you - would change the fact that a $190 million dollar budget fronted by a for-profit company is going account for commercial concerns of the end product in the society in which we currently live. Also, "key cultural relic"? That's layering it on a bit thick.

To be honest I think it makes it more important to keep it.

HelloMcFly 3y ago

Perhaps artistically, but almost certainly not commercially.

zeroCalories 3y ago
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- HelloMcFly 3y ago
  I'm not exactly sure who you're arguing with necessarily, though the acid in your words is quite plain. Nevertheless, there is a fundamental reality that the more capital is invested in the creation of cultural for-profit creation, the more tied the product is to commercial concerns. Books can be created without any sacrifice of artistic vision, Hollywood blockbusters with budgets as they are will never be divorced from the realities of commercial viability. I didn't present this as a "good thing", anymore than it's a "good thing" that my personal well-being is associated in some degree with my own financial outlook. Ultimately I think Dune is packed with ideas, many of which are really point-in-time, and not everything can make it onto the screen in a coherent way. I thought they did a good job overall when viewed as a whole product.
  - zeroCalories 3y ago
    Your apathy on the issue is a moral judgement. You think it's not a big deal. I disagree. We should not be "adapting" art to fit modern sensibilities. I don't care if they take artistic liberties with the space ship designs, but changing key aspects of how you interpret an old the story is bad. Maybe just make your own movie instead of misrepresenting a key cultural relic.
    - HelloMcFly 3y ago
      You sound like a real peach - angry at people for observing the world as it is, inserting moral judgments about them because they're not uselessly raging at pop cultural comfort food. I don't have to give you my bona fides on the ways I try to impact the world around me, but one cannot fight every battle. No amount of righteous anger I display here - not matter how performative it would be to you - would change the fact that a $190 million dollar budget fronted by a for-profit company is going account for commercial concerns of the end product in the society in which we currently live. Also, "key cultural relic"? That's layering it on a bit thick.