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Re: Castle = yes
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Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:51:48 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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The problem with LOTR and Braveheart is how grotesquely violent they were. I
mean, would you want your 1- yr old kid buying toys meant for a R-rated
movie? Basing it off a book is that it only appeals to fans of the book,
which is not a large group (i’ve never read the Pern books, for example).
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Can I go off on a bit of a rant here (not against Lenny, just in general)? When
the heck did our society become so centered on movies?!?!?! Lord of the Rings
has been voted the best book of the 20th century, and it’s been out for 50+
years. Now that someone has decided to make another movie of it (after the
animated Bakshi/Rankin-Bass movies of 20 years ago), suddenly anything about
LotR is bad because it’s associated with an R-rated movie!?!?! I read that when
I was 11, and then again when I was 13, and a bunch of times since, and now I’m
buying the books for my nephew.
Okay, so I’m a Tolkien nut, but this isn’t just about Tolkien. Take the
X-Files. It was a weekly show for years. Then when it was made into a movie,
people said “oh, it has to explain lots of background because all these people
have never seen the TV show”. Huh? What person says “Well, I really dislike
this genre, so I’m not going to see it when it comes into my living room free
every week, but now that it’s in a theater, I’ll suddenly decide I’d like to
shell out $8 and go stand in line for it.” Same with Star Trek and ST:TNG.
Or take almost any historical event. We’ve become a society that doesn’t care
about history, but if someone made a movie about it, that becomes our whole
impression of it--e.g. “I suddenly am an expert on WWII because I’ve seen Saving
Private Ryan.”, or “Now that I’ve seen JFK, I have all kinds of opinions on
whether Oswald acted alone.”
Or take lots of other movies made from other sources. E.g. Contact is an
amazing book, full of insight on science and on faith and on the possibilities
of extraterrestrial life and how we might interact with them. The movie was
mindless drivel about getting Jodie Foster into bed with Matthew McConahay.
Okay, vast oversimplification I reallize, but go read the book and then compare.
Of course, what does society see, the book or the movie?
Back to LEGO. Spiderman has been a comic for decades and decades, not to
mention various cartoons, a daily newspaper comic strip, the Electric Company
for those in my generation, etc. But we get a LEGO license because there’s a
movie. Harry Potter is single-handedly turning around the childrens’ book
market. Every new book coming out has huge lines of people at the bookstore,
with some stores having special midnight openings. But the LEGO line? All
about the movies. Even though we’ve got several more books, they won’t release
new sets on these until the next movie comes out. Now Lord of the Rings. We
can’t release a line, because of the movies. Who cares that it’s one of the top
selling books over the past fifty years? We only care about people who watch
movies.
Grr.
Okay, I’ll calm down now.
Later,
Bruce
P.S. I personally don’t want licences. I’d rather see TLC develop free-form
castles without set story lines and let the builders use their own imaginations.
Call me an idealistic fool.
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| (...) I agree with your rant, for the most part. As for the trend, you need to look back to see how TV and media-driven entertainment supplanted other forms of occupying our time over the last 50 years, and how that transformed us into a culture of (...) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) To answer you about X-Files: it was recommend to me to watch the TV series. I caught an episode that had to be one of the worst (a season opener that featured lots of voiceover - just dreadful unless you knew what went on before). I gave the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) I think this is most probably. However, leaving Juniorization can only happen if TLG expects it's target audience to be patient enough to build a detailed model. For us, thats the prime reason to buy a set, but for most kid fans, it's playing (...) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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