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This is v good and also reminds me of an issue I'm starting to see with endless remakes and adaptations: often an artist/community will work through something over the course of a generation dealing w/it progressively, then a remake reboots the issue at 0 polygon.com/platform/amp/2020/7/23/21333631/ghost-of-tsushima-kurosawa-films-samurai-japan-abe-politics?utm_campaign=polygon&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&__twitter_impression=true
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So we end up re-having critical discussions from decades ago because a fan of the work has not availed themselves of the full cannon, or critical discussion, and has then recreated art that the artist themselves or community works later reject or place in context with more art.
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This is a clear example, but so is The Boys, Watchmen (the film), Jokers adapted from The Killing Joke, a lot of Batman media etc. These are basically uncritically presenting naive interpretations of the work without the context of criticism that (in some cases) even authors made
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And then instead of a natural evolution forward, fans stick at that one spot in history and the internet makes trying to get them to move far more difficult, and the naive fan-creators are usually rewarded for failing to move forward.
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Like, you'd have to truly isolate yourself artistically to think, like Snyd*r does, that Watchmen is a paean to libertarianism. Same with a deciding to remake The Boys as a basically straight from source material adaptation without realizing its context in time has passed.
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I don't think it is malicious (usually), but if you're going to make art you have to consume more than just one slice of an artist's work and more than one slice of a community of art because if you do you'll see how art struggles with previous art and progresses...
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The result being that art is built on top of a legacy of addressing itself to other past art, it's created in a context and that context and discussion evolves as others interpret and engage with past art.
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I wish more games and movies would engage and build upon the whole legacy of a work and the community of art it arrived in, instead of just lifting a single narrow slice. When they adapt from the whole we get something like the Watchmen TV show, which is so much better & lasting.
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In the end it isn't just about do or don't adapt/remake, it's about giving the art you want to handle the respect it deserves by participating in its legacy and moving forward. Give us more Into The Spider-verse and less Dark Phoenix. The best remix art is, itself, critique.
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(PS another good example: For all its flaws, I enjoyed The Last Jedi because it wasn't just homage, it critically engaged in the discussion and movement of the community of Star Wars and related art... as opposed to Rise of Skywalker which just seemed to lift a slice of the past)
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