tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post3586846779350145789..comments2024-03-29T04:56:23.027-04:00Comments on Cockeyed Caravan: Storyteller’s Rulebook #151: If They’ve Never Done Anything Like This Before, BewareMatt Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-89820542345800537272012-10-09T13:13:21.673-04:002012-10-09T13:13:21.673-04:00I get your point, but I'm not sure you have th...I get your point, but I'm not sure you have the best examples to illustrate it. Are those Robin Williams films unsuccessful because they were too bold and original? Because they were bold ideas badly executed? Or because nobody wanted to see Robin Williams traipsing through the afterlife and chatting with Werner Herzog or being a robot with existential quandries? Might they have worked with a different actor?<br /><br />I'd be more likely to argue something like "It's the execution, stupid!" Meaning that, whether your premise is bold and original or meat and potatoes, it's always about execution, about the quality of the resulting tale you spin from it. Which is why I think it's so silly when I hear someone say some project or other is "execution dependent." As if everything else weren't!<br /><br />Christine Tyler might want to check out Kirby Ferguson's EVERYTHING IS A REMIX and Jonathan Lethem's Harper's essay (still free on-line) "The Ecstasy of Influence."<br /><br />http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387<br /><br />http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/j.s.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-44862408965187317742012-10-09T00:11:20.677-04:002012-10-09T00:11:20.677-04:00Yes, absolutely! This article reiterated a lovely ...Yes, absolutely! This article reiterated a lovely point I just found in Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.<br /><br />"But it's been done a hundred times before!"--as if there could be anything not done a hundred thousand times between Aristophanes and Andrew Void-Webber! As if Art is the What, not the How!”<br /><br />But you, sir, just articulated WHY it's the how and not the what. Great thoughts. Christine Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08711726941768571495noreply@blogger.com