{"id":7956,"date":"2011-12-20T18:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7956"},"modified":"2011-12-20T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:40:08","slug":"tuesday-various-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7956","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The days of aliens spouting gibberish with no grammatical structure are over&#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/12\/arts\/television\/in-game-of-thrones-a-language-to-make-the-world-feel-real.html?_r=4\">Creating a new language for <i>A Game of Thrones<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Along the same lines, <a href=\"http:\/\/matadornetwork.com\/abroad\/20-awesomely-untranslatable-words-from-around-the-world\/\">20 awesomely untranslatable words from around the world<\/a>. I particularly like<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Yagan (indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Are we truly living <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/blogs\/motion-captured\/posts\/the-bigger-picture-muppets-avengers-and-life-in-the-age-of-fanfiction\">in the age of fanfiction<\/a>?<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s been truly bizarre, though, is the way the mainstream has slowly headed in the same direction, and without anyone noticing it, we seem to have handed over our entire industry to the creation of fanfiction on a corporate level, and at this point, I&#8217;m not sure how we&#8217;re expecting the pendulum to ever swing back.  I know people love to blame Spielberg and Lucas for creating the modern blockbuster age, but at least when they decided to pay tribute to their inspirations, they did so in interesting ways.  Spielberg has talked about how his frustrations at hearing that only English filmmakers could direct James Bond movies led to the creation of Indiana Jones, and Lucas was working out his love of Flash Gordon when he created &#8220;Star Wars.&#8221;  Those are healthy ways to work through your love of something, and absolutely make sense as important pieces in the creative process.  What&#8217;s scary is how these days, filmmakers wouldn&#8217;t bother with that last step, the part where you take your inspirations and run them through your own filter.  Now, instead, we live in an age where we are simply doing the source material again and again and again, and where original creation seems to be almost frowned upon as a &#8220;risk.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/starship-troopers-remakewould-you-like-to-know-mor,65971\/?\">they&#8217;re re-making <i>Starship Troopers<\/i><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/starship-troopers-remakewould-you-like-to-know-mor,65971\/?\">And <i>The Munsters<\/i><\/a>. As a &#8220;dramatic re-imagining.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s so sad to see <i>Monty Python<\/i> members <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2011_12_14.html#021810\">fight among themselves<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/updates\/2659\">Blackwater is changing its name<\/a>. This is like if the Devil started asking us to call him Gus.[<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/hbo-wants-david-milch-to-adapt-william-faulkner,65854\/?\">David Milch to adapt William Faulkner<\/a>? I am so there.<\/li>\n<li><i>They&#8217;re coming to crowd-fund you, Barbara&#8230;<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/29\/living-dead-fans-dig-up-funds-to-keep-chapel-from-going-under\/\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLiving Dead\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Fans Digging Up Funds to Keep Chapel from Going Under<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ordinary-gentlemen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/patient-bw-dob-2161971\/\">Bruce Wayne&#8217;s medical records<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]\n<li>And finally, I haven&#8217;t seen the new <i>Tintin<\/i> movie, but this fan-made opening sequence is really quite wonderful. [<a href=\"http:\/\/eddvick.livejournal.com\/\" title=\"Edd Vick\">via<\/a>]\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/30402976?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/30402976\">The Adventures of Tintin<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2129442\">James Curran<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The days of aliens spouting gibberish with no grammatical structure are over&#8230;&#8221; Creating a new language for A Game of Thrones Along the same lines, 20 awesomely untranslatable words from around the world. I particularly like Yagan (indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7956\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[112,20,153,64,177,14,37,6,9,17,10,142,111,24],"class_list":["post-7956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-comics","tag-hollywood","tag-language","tag-medicine","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-pop-culture","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-video","tag-writers","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}