Everything is a Remix

[redhawk23]

So I stumbled upon (on stumbleupon!) an interesting little documentary about how bits of media get recycled. The second part which is about films has a really good breakdown of Star Wars and at the end of Kill Bill. None of what the guy has to say is all that groundbreaking but his videos are really well edited. Check it out

www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Great find.

The only thing more amazing than the fact that you can find everything, no matter how famous, is made up of older stuff (Star Wars is inspired by, among others, Flash Gordon. Flash Gordon is more or less a direct copy of Buck Rogers. Buck Rogers is inspired by John Carter of Mars, etc)....the only thing more amazing than that is the amount of fans WHO WILL NOT ACCEPT THAT THEIR FAVOURITE FILM/COMIC/TV SHOW TAKES IDEAS FROM OTHER THINGS. Sorry, that had to be in capitals.

As an example, in 2003/4, on these very boards, many would not accept that Doctor Octopus' tentacles in Spider-Man 2 could have been influenced by the sentinels in The Matrix.

 

[redhawk23]

and even the squiddies were probably taken from something else. The way I see it recycling and readapting older things isn't a problem as long as you do bring in something new or reinterpret them in new ways (tarantino pushes it for me sometimes though as he uses similar things in very similar contexts as the original, but when he peices things together, adds his owns spin, some kick ass music and his own dialogue its pretty well fantastic a lot of the time)

 

[Kevin Roegele]

and even the squiddies were probably taken from something else. The way I see it recycling and readapting older things isn't a problem as long as you do bring in something new or reinterpret them in new ways (tarantino pushes it for me sometimes though as he uses similar things in very similar contexts as the original, but when he peices things together, adds his owns spin, some kick ass music and his own dialogue its pretty well fantastic a lot of the time)

I agree, 100%. Look at Lady Gaga - at once something new and fresh, at at the same time, Madonna + Gwen Stefani singing Ace of Base songs.

Even religions adapt and recycle ones that came before. It's all the creative process. Anyone who has created anything of substance will discuss their influences.