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Original ideas...are they rare now?
12 years ago
ok so i thought about this for a while now. With the birth of the internet and the growth of films, storys, and plays...is it easy say that its hard to make original ideas now?
Entertainment and Story media has grown sooooo large that many thing have been done. Entire team of writers go in to making these projects. And then there's the internet, where you have millions of people animating, writing, and drawing things that its now hard to come up with an idea or story that hasn't been done before.
Lets talk about what an originality is. Its when an idea is used so rarely or even never before that it seems new and refreshing. I got to thinking on how to make an original story and unfortunately i kept bumping in to walls of other peoples ideas some what ruining the idea.
You can argue that there are still original ideas out there and there always will be. But stories tend to fall in to cliche and categories now cause there are so many stories out in the world. Not only that but at times you tend to bump in to ideas that you didn't know existed or remembered. Greck from payment in full is a lot like Bently from Sly Cooper. I hadn't played that game in yeeeeeeeeears and totally forgot, I would have atleast changed him to a different animal if i knew. And as time goes on, more and more ideas are used, and some what taking the flags out of discovering something original.
Some may say that some stories come from a darker side of humans nature or nature it's self. You could say these are original but to me there not that much. Its diving in to an area of emotions people DONT want to see and thus don't tend to want to explore. That being said, you better be really damn good at executing such a story or your going to have a lot of pissed off people.
The other thing i like to address about originality is that some writers have no where to go but...well...up. What i mean when i say that is writers are pushed to the edge of how far they can take an idea and often times, jump over that edge. Thats some what a new area too but to me it just look like the writers were running out of ideas and needed a way to push forward to the next level even though the last level was super huge. You tend find these done in manga's like one piece and naruto and i don't really like it. Sure its cool and all but it just looks like they were running out of ideas to make the characters stronger to the already unnaturally strong villains.
I guess now in this day of age, its about execution more then it is then the ideas now. I mean its always good to have a creative ideas and original moments. But really now they are just the spices to the pot of ideas. Even cliche's like retelling fairy tales and forbidden pets and so on and so forth can be great so long as its execution of the story and ideas, rather then how original it is. So if you see someone say "Its not a very original idea" just tell them "What isn't any more?"
Also an update for the shinra doll donation.
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5300580/
Entertainment and Story media has grown sooooo large that many thing have been done. Entire team of writers go in to making these projects. And then there's the internet, where you have millions of people animating, writing, and drawing things that its now hard to come up with an idea or story that hasn't been done before.
Lets talk about what an originality is. Its when an idea is used so rarely or even never before that it seems new and refreshing. I got to thinking on how to make an original story and unfortunately i kept bumping in to walls of other peoples ideas some what ruining the idea.
You can argue that there are still original ideas out there and there always will be. But stories tend to fall in to cliche and categories now cause there are so many stories out in the world. Not only that but at times you tend to bump in to ideas that you didn't know existed or remembered. Greck from payment in full is a lot like Bently from Sly Cooper. I hadn't played that game in yeeeeeeeeears and totally forgot, I would have atleast changed him to a different animal if i knew. And as time goes on, more and more ideas are used, and some what taking the flags out of discovering something original.
Some may say that some stories come from a darker side of humans nature or nature it's self. You could say these are original but to me there not that much. Its diving in to an area of emotions people DONT want to see and thus don't tend to want to explore. That being said, you better be really damn good at executing such a story or your going to have a lot of pissed off people.
The other thing i like to address about originality is that some writers have no where to go but...well...up. What i mean when i say that is writers are pushed to the edge of how far they can take an idea and often times, jump over that edge. Thats some what a new area too but to me it just look like the writers were running out of ideas and needed a way to push forward to the next level even though the last level was super huge. You tend find these done in manga's like one piece and naruto and i don't really like it. Sure its cool and all but it just looks like they were running out of ideas to make the characters stronger to the already unnaturally strong villains.
I guess now in this day of age, its about execution more then it is then the ideas now. I mean its always good to have a creative ideas and original moments. But really now they are just the spices to the pot of ideas. Even cliche's like retelling fairy tales and forbidden pets and so on and so forth can be great so long as its execution of the story and ideas, rather then how original it is. So if you see someone say "Its not a very original idea" just tell them "What isn't any more?"
Also an update for the shinra doll donation.
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5300580/
But yeah, for the most part, it's not a matter of having a totally original idea, but how you tell your tale. "Originality" is, perhaps, a pitfall of creative minds when too much focus and emphasis is put on it.
Funny enough, that's how original things go. Once somebody uncovers it, everyone's there for their take on it. It's almost like a gold rush, one minute after the discovery your swimming in originality bliss, the next you've been run over by a hundred people who want the idea as well. Guess that's where copyrights come in, but even then you'll always get somebody who's slipped by; you can't manage the world can you?
This goes along with all genres and cliche's. In other words, as long as the cliche is able to be attached to a good tale, then it can be as cliche as it wants to be. "Stale bread can still make a good sandwich" if you will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ryPC8bxqE
The flip side of that, however, is that, as you already mentioned with the "butts for hands" idea, "original" and "quality" are not synonyms.
Another phrase you could throw out here is "Great minds think alike" -- if it turns out that somebody beat you to an idea, take that as being a sign that the idea was good. It's not a problem if the idea is similar to, or was inspired by, another source, just as long as that source material is not copied verbatim.
Cause you think of the idea, doesn't mean you have exclusive rights to the idea, just the expression of it. Forget originality and go with what you think makes a good story a good story. Why does your character do the things they do, what makes a realistic hero, what makes a realistic villain.
Heck AEthian my "Fursona" or rather character, was merely thought of what I liked in characters like The Nameless One from Planescape Torment (excellent setting and really should make a comeback), Arthas from the Warcraft universe. While yes his blade in question had been inspired by the Fierce Deity Link sword from Majora's Mask.
Let me put it in context as a movie buff, If you're going to scale the ante involved and the setting is in the real world, or rooted in current day society. "Saving the World" is the synonymous with about every grand epic, and odds are they are at the end of a planned trilogy, or some giant epic that combines a bunch of heroes from other movies together.
And odds are if this true they are probably going to go through the "Hero's Journey" albeit skip a few steps as long as it keeps flow with the story.
We make these stories cause they are a reflection of whatever things inspired us, lines and patterns of thoughts and ideas that made us think, cultural bias, personal bias, our very personas and our experiences that made us have that frame of reference.