E! People Do NOT Get It.
QJ.NET - MMORPG Blog - 24/7 Coverage of the Latest MMORPG News - Article Detail: "It turns out films and MMOs are not that different,. That shouldn't be too surprising, though. After all, what we do as filmmakers is create virtual worlds...Both our industries build experiences that have the same goals."
I'll go into this more when I review the AGC panel where I got to stare dumbfounded as Lee Sheldon proved he's about the only one from Hollywood who gets it. The divide between games and movies is HUGE. Movie people, much like the artists preceding them think that writers and directors are artists of a higher caliber than us mere house painters in games. Reminds me distinctly of being in art school and wretching as my fellow fine art majors looked down on those poor slobs doing "commercial" art. Like they totally missed what Warhol was saying.
Movie guys are kinda in a similar boat. To them games are a marketing and merchandise exercise there to heighten the artistic merits and reception of the next "perfect!". Gimmie a freakin B.
I'm sorry I missed the keynote on this one. Really, there must have been some gems:
"He added that the virtual world should influence the movie, let it feed back into the process and provide riches and depth. However, MMOs won't replace great directing or flimaking, but rather the ones who create those games may become the next generation of directors or writers."
Uh dude. We don't WANT to be writers and directors in your moving picture celebrity circus but it does indeed sound like you want in on our gig. No worries, there's plenty of room for a couple hundred more of your ghastly interpretations of our successes and we'll take your cash to make Spiderman games. Ok that's really a bit cynical of me but I'm serious, these guys do not yet get it. I keep thinking maybe they do but they don't and you know why? Because as I heard at this very panel from a guy new to the gaming culture, "once I started having these interactive experiences, I just couldn't really sit down and watch TV anymore." Guess that's why Lee don't do Charlie's Angels no more. Pity that really.
I'll go into this more when I review the AGC panel where I got to stare dumbfounded as Lee Sheldon proved he's about the only one from Hollywood who gets it. The divide between games and movies is HUGE. Movie people, much like the artists preceding them think that writers and directors are artists of a higher caliber than us mere house painters in games. Reminds me distinctly of being in art school and wretching as my fellow fine art majors looked down on those poor slobs doing "commercial" art. Like they totally missed what Warhol was saying.
Movie guys are kinda in a similar boat. To them games are a marketing and merchandise exercise there to heighten the artistic merits and reception of the next "perfect!". Gimmie a freakin B.
I'm sorry I missed the keynote on this one. Really, there must have been some gems:
"He added that the virtual world should influence the movie, let it feed back into the process and provide riches and depth. However, MMOs won't replace great directing or flimaking, but rather the ones who create those games may become the next generation of directors or writers."
Uh dude. We don't WANT to be writers and directors in your moving picture celebrity circus but it does indeed sound like you want in on our gig. No worries, there's plenty of room for a couple hundred more of your ghastly interpretations of our successes and we'll take your cash to make Spiderman games. Ok that's really a bit cynical of me but I'm serious, these guys do not yet get it. I keep thinking maybe they do but they don't and you know why? Because as I heard at this very panel from a guy new to the gaming culture, "once I started having these interactive experiences, I just couldn't really sit down and watch TV anymore." Guess that's why Lee don't do Charlie's Angels no more. Pity that really.
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Hollywood? Arrogant? I'm shocked, shocked at this revelation!
If I hear anything on the radio or TV about gaming or technology, I change the channel; same with major news websites or maganize/newspaper articles. I will admit that I haven't searched very hard for one, but I have yet to see a single article, story, or whatever that shows that whoever's speaking has any clue whatsoever what they're talking about. All E! did was combine the usual ignorance with a "they want to be us" mentallity that comes with having a television network devoted to themselves.
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