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Just wanted to add that this advice will necessarily change with the times. Something sounds trite and cliche if you've heard it (or something like it) too muc
by rauljara 14y ago
Just wanted to add that this advice will necessarily change with the times. Something sounds trite and cliche if you've heard it (or something like it) too much. Most of the things that sound trite and cliche now sounded great the first time you heard them. That's how they got repeated enough to become trite and cliche in the first place.
If everyone followed the advice in this article, the advice would be terrible. Most people don't, so it's probably pretty safe for now. The general advice though, is to pay attention to what feels overdone and then don't do that. And don't stop paying attention, because it will definitely change.
- aidenn0 14y agoA coworker of mine (25ish) had seen a lot of movies, but not Casablanca. So I loaned it to him. He said "my first reaction was 'this is so cliched' and then I realized that it rather was where many cliches came from"
- nthitz 14y agoI feel the same way about the sitcom Cheers. Both are great works, but now seem cliched!
- d23 14y agoReminds me of the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" trope. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny
- smacktoward 14y agoThe same is true of another great movie, Citizen Kane. It invented many elements of the modern movie (cinematographer Gregg Toland's contributions especially -- http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/depth-of-field-gregg-toland-citizen-kane-and-beyond http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/depth-of-field-gregg...), but since those elements have all become standard parts of mainstream filmmaking they don't shock audiences they way they did when it came out in 1941.
- jacobolus 14y agoUmberto Eco: http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_casablanca.html http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_casablanca.html
- JasonFruit 14y agoFor the same reason, it's impossible to listen to the music of Debussy and Delius in the same way it was heard when it was new. Then, the parallel chords of stacked thirds, modal harmonies, and blurred harmonic rhythm were new and exciting, but now, they've been done so much that it's in every movie's scene in the mist, and every other feminine hygiene product ad.