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Just a Warcabbit, still running City of Titans
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I keep thinking of the Flintstones selling cigarettes
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Oh man, I remember doing that.
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I guess the first Hess trucks, being made for marketing, rather than having a goal of meaningful revenue.
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I'm now trying to think of a toy that isn't a cash grab. I suppose a propaganda toy might qualify? Like if elf on a shelf was actually sponsored by, I don't know, palantir, with the goal of encouraging universal surveillance.
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I understand that. What I was trying to get at was the interesting negative case that we have here. It wasn't so much about Bay, as to the requirements of being a strong director.
What happens, when the artistic vision, is crap.
Then you can talk about the structure.
But again dropping it.
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Oh I understand. Backing off. Have a good day.
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I agree with this 100%.
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Sounds good. I was trying to have a little discussion about film theory.
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You are absolutely correct there. I do not approve of his work in any way, shape, or form. In fact I am repelled by it, but I have had to engage with it.
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Yes, I agree.
Auteur theory is about the vision of the movie, not whether it's good. It's about the way the director shapes the result.
For example, to pick James Gunn, I happen to watch his work years before GotG. There was a dance off. I'm not kidding.
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A solid argument for any movie made after that statement. I would really have to see the statement to engage meaningfully. I am talking film theory here, not approval.
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I definitely do not like him. I despise everything he's done, but I do find amusement in the fact that he essentially reversed the personality traits of every character in his movie.
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And I think it's interesting, to consider the term in that perspective. Someone who we are very familiar with and yet we dislike. And reject his artistic point of view but if you look at his work, it's clearly there .
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I agree with every last part of that assessment, I just feel that he makes the movies his artistic vision demands. His artistic vision is crap but he does a fantastic job of making exactly what he visualizes. I am serious that I cannot think of a reason that he does not qualify as an auteur.
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Bay does not want to cure cancer. He wants to turn people into dinosaurs.
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He has a stronger vision, a more coherent approach, but Bay has an aesthetic that refines McG, into painting a movie by emotions, rather than things like logic, or story. He is definitely making the movies he wants to make.
I don't like him, but I think he qualifies as an auteur, by any definition.
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Not that I like Bay, but you really have to give him credit for having a strong artistic vision that he follows. As a Transformers fan, I am amazed that he has managed to make things less coherent than the original cartoons, but by God he has a vision.
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I mean I did, except my teddy bear is astromechs.
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It's very healthy.
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And his Under-study, Unit 3...
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Major yikes, yeah.
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Been there since, well, the beginning of Space Opera. Boarding axes!
(Doc Smith)
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I dunno, when I was 13, I had to build my own out of a weed whacker and a skateboard.
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Aw yeah there's the Technic.
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Psionics is apparently coming next.
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And don't forget his backup singers.
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The thing that I really like, is that number one, Kamala looks like a modern Dalsim, in a retro way, and number two, how happy the character would be, if she knew she was in a fighting game. Just a perfect choice on a textual and metatextual level.
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If you going to bring up science fiction predictions, I have to point at Douglas Adams, because, he was very accurate about LLMs. That's pretty much exactly with the Genuine People Personalities were. And how they'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
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That specific development, I was not part of, but I think it was a coincidence.
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Daemons, I believe is the term.
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A friend of mine wrote a few of those. Actually a couple friends wrote a few of those.
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What is this?