For my paradigm shift, I would like to write about the shift in the types of movies Hollywood produces. In the past, a lot of original ideas came out through movies. The movies would have new, exciting story lines that nobody has seen before, but this has changed. Nowadays, movies are typically remakes of older movies or they take on a story from another medium. Movies today often take on the story of popular books, comics, or TV shows. This may have been caused by the new view of profitable ventures in entertainment. Trying to write a new story line causes producers and directors to take a risk that can be avoided by just using an idea that has already been written down. Profitability in the marketplace drives the modern view of entertainment and the standard movie that is produced to have a story that is proven to be entertaining to viewers in the past. I will find the specific event that caused this and more details about the change. To any readers, let me know what you think about this topic.
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Lori Bedell says
I’m a little worried about this because it seems to intangible. On the one hand, yes, there will be more remakes because more exists to remake. Might we also look at the films that were derived from books as “remakes,” so to speak? There were lots of those in the early days of film.
Maybe your interest is the in the emergence of the action movie, specifically, superhero-types of movies?
I’m just not sure I understand your focus.