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More and more, we get them. No new ideas out there evidently. Now there's The Time Machine.My guess is the younger crowd today are the audience. I can't believe how some of the intelligent kids today are totally into whatever is coming out. So many great classics out there are just sitting. I guess kids just don't anything at all to do with the past.
Wonder how many of them who see The Time Machine will bother to read the book?
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Because production costs have skyrocketed in recent years, studios want as much of a sure thing as possible. They see a remake as having a built in audience and go with the idea that attracted viewers at one time at least.Think about it, if you are in charge of green lighting a project for $50 million, and your job is on the line for it you'd probably be making boring decisions as well.
It really is a shame. They desperately need new ideas and better scripts.
First, you will find that many, many language arts teachers in our schools offer film versions of classic literary works as supplements to student reading. Reading the book or play is too often followed by in-class viewing of a film interpretation. Many students don't even "get" the book until they see it interpreted on a TV screen. Or they fake their way through the reading, knowing that the much easier task of watching the film comes next. Reading a work of literature requires imagination, but most kids today don't know how to use their imaginations. Instead, they've become accustomed to totally passive experiences in which the imaging is done for them. An imaginative reading of a novel tends to be very individualized -- readers walk away with a picture in their minds of the setting, characters, action, etc. that varies from person to person. Film literalizes everything -- i.e., if a kid watches The Time Machine, then reads the book, he or she tends to see the novel as it was portrayed on film.Second, there's the problem of age segregation: separating school kids into groups based mainly on their age reinforces group-think. They consider nothing outside of their peer groups as valid or meaningful. To think or behave other than in a group-sanctioned manner invites terrible persecution. Our upgrade-addicted, commercial culture dovetails this: the new, improved version is always on the horizon, to render the older version(s) passe.
Yes, does not foster independent thinking, alas.
I wonder how many of them can even read.
Literacy, not something we can take for granted.
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