Funny thing about films these days is how predictable they sometimes are. Stories about love at first sight, or a haunted house, or even a story about an underdog in a team or company , can often be very predictable to those who have watched similar shows. According to Adornos & Horkheimer's text “ The Culture Industry: Enlightenment and Mass Deception” details are often interchangeable when it comes to movies and TV shows these days (Adorno& Horkheimer, 1994). Notable examples of short interval sequences that often way to much in films would be the suspenseful music playing in the background before a jump scare in a horror film.Another example would be about two lovers who found themselves in some sort of forbidden love like the countless Cinderella re-writes , the 20th century has produced over the years.The amount of predictability that movies these days have are astonishing . Oftentimes once we see or hear the first part of a movie we already know what is coming next. Homogeneity is somewhat identical to this due to mass culture being identical all throughout.
According to Adorno & Horkheighmers culture of industry there are “ ready made cliches to be slotted in anywhere”(Adorno& Horkheimer, pg.3) meaning sequences of movies are often created with a cliche ending. Another interesting thing I was able to identify in Adorno & Horkeimers article was their claim to too much stimuli in films these days. Real life things are becoming indistinguishable . Audiences are left with no room for imagination due to the realistic effects that films often have these days. One remarkable type of pop culture that has been affecting today's generation a lot would be video games. Video games and simulation equipment like VR are making things 3-D and realistic more than ever. This causes boredom way easily due to the nature of it being rendered effortless. One example would be how unrealistic women are portrayed in video games. One of the things that I was able to notice was the progression that films from the early 2000s had compared to those being released in the recent years. In essence our minds have progressively been brainwashed into thinking that all these major advancements are normal . But in reality when a comparison is done between films from before compared to now, it's almost unrecognizable.
My question to my fellow classmates is what are some cliches you almost expect in films these days? Name a few.
How do you feel about new technology that is somewhat almost confusing to real life, due to its progressive advancement and realistic effects.
The main cliches that I expect out of movies is the guy gets the girl, the goofy girl comes out as the pretty girl at the end, best friends end up in love, the superhero saves the day, the cop gets the bad guy, the ghost kills everyone but one person, the lawyer figures out who really did the crime. There's a lot of different cliches out there and it's hard to even name them all but once you start a movie it is pretty easy to figure out what the cliche is going to be. Almost like watching the Hallmark channel you know what's going to happen in every show ha!
ReplyDeleteHonestly I don't mind the new technology that is being used in movies nowadays because it makes it look so nice and clean and really amazing. I think that it may take away from some of the acting because they can basically take a face and computer generate another over that face, its crazy! As far as CGI goes it's sometimes hard to accept it but for all the amazing technology that makes explosions and spaceships in space and fight scenes I feel like it makes for better movies. Overall I feel like technology has made movies better and will continue to make movies better as technology becomes more and more advanced.