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0 pointsu1hcw9nx2d ago0 comments

They truly are.

Star Wars is perfect example of it. Star Wars is now repetitive genre like police procedural or western except Disney owns it.

With few exceptions they have successfully frozen the franchise and just do the same things over and over again. Why change it as long as it makes money.The postures, scenes, phrases, characters, are done with constant repeat and minimal variation. "I've got a bad feeling about this" appears in every single Star Wars movie in some form. live action and animation series have it. They are not shy about it, they even make "I have a really good feeling about this!" jest once.

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xg152d ago· 2 in thread

I noticed this during the campaign before The Force Awakens.

One of the ads was just a shot of the burned-out Darth Vader mask and nothing else - no tagline or logo or any other text that it was about a Star Wars movie.

It's as if the marketers were saying to their audience "you already know what we mean, right? We understand each other..."

They place an enormous trust in the cultural symbols they bought.

copperx2d ago

The amount of trivia that you must handle to be able to understand the latest movie is mind boggling. Disney should do education, because I would need to watch and study all the previous movies, which is probably a year worth of work, before I can watch subsequent releases. Perhaps not as hard work as studying linear algebra, perhaps, but still a lot of person hours involved.

The amount of information that the average fan retains about Star Wars is mind boggling, compared to their, say, knowledge of world geography.

I am also in awe of sports fans in a similar way. They command large swaths of dry, boring information such as world series stats with great enthusiasm.

kibibu2d ago

A year of work? There are like 9 movies and a handful of series. If you don't watch the kids' shows it's a few weeks of casual watching

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