tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post5956361165797827056..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: I don't think the MIT Center for Future Storytelling would like medieval romanceCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-70309726772402497032008-11-18T21:23:00.000-05:002008-11-18T21:23:00.000-05:00Postscript: If nothing else works they can do ano...Postscript: If nothing else works they can do another movie based on Lost in Space. That'll work.Steve Muhlbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136005762428407135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-64698048776669929622008-11-18T21:20:00.000-05:002008-11-18T21:20:00.000-05:00I am glad in this period of economic constraint th...I am glad in this period of economic constraint that these selfless people have money to spend on saving "meaning."Steve Muhlbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136005762428407135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-81828948760261213402008-11-18T08:33:00.000-05:002008-11-18T08:33:00.000-05:00Seems the best thing we can say about the article ...Seems the best thing we can say about the article is that it reads like a press release. <BR/><BR/>Honestly, we can trapdoor the nostalgia with 20th-century filmmaking itself; as fun as it is, we don't even have to go back to the grail romances. It's pretty rich for Peter Guber, responsible for tripe like the Keaton/Nicholson <I>Batman,</I> to complain about the cultural disease represented by <I>The Transformers.</I> Then they cite* Bobby Farrelly, longing for the old bittersweet stories of yesteryear, who is working on a Three Stooges movie.<BR/><BR/>Uh, what? The fact that the Press Release cites only American movies, and only a handful at that, that it ignores pre-Television serials (which were certainly open-ended!), that it ignores, hell, Television (generally speaking, open-ended, and has been since the 50s), just makes me wish that the funders of this institute had invested in an education for themselves....<BR/><BR/>* This is how much of an academic I am: no one is 'quoted' or 'interviewed': they are 'cited.'Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-21154990438977280012008-11-18T07:54:00.000-05:002008-11-18T07:54:00.000-05:00Favorite line: "Ultimately, he blames the audience...Favorite line: "Ultimately, he blames the audience." Personally, I blame the medieval audience for all those Arthurian narratives that proliferated (Harry Potter-like) without a tight narrative arc and satisfying closure. Dumb audience, always ruining things with their nonsatisfying demands.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.com