Tuesday, November 13, 2012
In Class 12
The videos we watched today I thought was very interesting. It shows us that mostly everything came from somewhere else. For example, Benjamin Franklin want to invite a better verison of the flame lamp. When he did this he accidentally came up with the light bulb. An other good point would be the Star Wars movies. The author had many examples of how this movie was based off a lot of other movies. It is like they took the ideas of movies, television shows, and even a book, and put all of them together to create this very popular movie. Also he says that the biggest movies in box offices are the ones that are sequels, remixes, or from books or comic books. I can say I do believe this is true because Harry Potter is such a hit as a movie. The reason it is a hit is because of the books, and most people even if they know it can not compare to the book will go and watch the movies still. Then he talks about how we take others' ideas, but yet when someone takes ours we get defensive. A good example of this would be Steve Jobs because he stole ideas off a company that invited the computer first. He just changes up somethings to make it more efficient, and lowered the price; because copies are usually cheaper than original due the fact that they do not need a development idea cost. Yet when android came up with something similar to what they had he threatened to sue them. This video helped to show me that most big inventions come from an idea from someone else, and that they are all just remixes.
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I know this is one of those ten minute writing assignments, but I do agree these movies were very interesting. If you read my blog I feel like we make some of the same points. For instance I mentioned the Star Wars movies, all these years I thought Star Wars was an original film. Who knew they would copy ideas for their film. Even though Star Wars takes place in space, it does kind of have the same scenes shown in the film. I still cannot believe I never came to this conclusion before. I mean I watch movies a lot and I do see similarities, but why am I so surprised that these movies copy? I guess I just have to get over the idea of anyone having an original idea, even if the idea seems original it probably isn’t. The other thing that was a surprise to me was the music. Led Zeppelin was used as an example, but if you listen to music on the radio you can hear the similarity of other music. I mean sometimes I think a certain song is coming on the radio, but it turn out to be a different one. Like the films and you mentioned I guess it doesn’t matter just because it is the way we like things to be. We like a normal, and if it works why change anything. I really enjoyed these films and I hope you did as well. I hope your English essay is coming along good!
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