I know people have been pointing out for years that a lot of new movies that come out are based on stuff that's been around for a long time.<\/p>\n
And normally I kind of shrug and say things like “So what?” and “But there are also a lot of new and fairly original movies coming out” and “The new versions are often fresh new takes on existing stories” and “Arguably, there's no such thing as an original story anyway” and “Most of Shakespeare's works were based on other stories” and so on.<\/p>\n
But the previews this afternoon really drove home the point.<\/p>\n
Laura and I went to see Harry Potter VII, Part One<\/cite> (speaking of Shakespearean titles, and movies based on other works). And the previews were (not in this order):<\/p>\n I'm especially amused at that last one. I was thinking that it was the only one of the previews not based on or derived from an earlier work (other than being generally derived from the Western and alien-invasion genres), but it turns out that was just 'cause I didn't know about the graphic novel it came from.<\/p>\n Anyway, all of the things I said up top still apply; I don't actually object to movies being based on other stuff, and there are still plenty of movies that aren't. But I was amused at the consistency of this set of previews in this regard—and especially at how many of the movies previewed are explicitly based on stuff dating back to before 1960.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know people have been pointing out for years that a lot of new movies that come out are based…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n