If you are a fan of older movies, you may remember how some of those showed the bad guys as planning to steal thousands of dollars. The "Italian Job" was produced in 1969 and in this movie Charlie plans to steal $4 million dollars. When this movie was remade in 2003, the plot grew to a plan to steal $35 million dollars.
I guess a million dollars isn't that much money anymore; Okay it's still a lot to me. But it is amazing how the necessary amount keeps growing in order to make the story seem reasonable.
Wouldn't it be funny to see a movie where the main character fights for only $200,000? But that's what Clint Eastwood does in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", where he is in a life and death struggle for a mere $200,000 in gold.
In 1993, the Canadian band "Barenaked Ladies" produced a song called "If I had a $1,000,000." If you haven't heard it, go to this YouTube site. I still love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHacDYj8KZM
In 2009, Travie McCoy sang a song called "Billionaire". Now there's a recent song by T-Pain called "Trillionaire". I don't recommend either version to listen to.
When does it stop? How much does the story have to change in order to be reasonable to the listener or viewer? Every story told seems that it must have some basis in reality in order to stick with the listener. Even those stories that are all fantasy, like WALL-E.
This Pixar film is a wonderful children's story about a robot named WALL-E who barely speaks. Still, the film makers give human attributes to the robot and shows him falling in love with another robot. Even though this story is made up, it still has some connection with real life; love, perseverance, determination, etc.
I just wonder how the story lines of tomorrow will change in order to catch the attention of the masses. And yet some of those basic human conditions and emotions will always be a part of every great story.
Scott
I guess a million dollars isn't that much money anymore; Okay it's still a lot to me. But it is amazing how the necessary amount keeps growing in order to make the story seem reasonable.
Wouldn't it be funny to see a movie where the main character fights for only $200,000? But that's what Clint Eastwood does in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", where he is in a life and death struggle for a mere $200,000 in gold.
In 1993, the Canadian band "Barenaked Ladies" produced a song called "If I had a $1,000,000." If you haven't heard it, go to this YouTube site. I still love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHacDYj8KZM
In 2009, Travie McCoy sang a song called "Billionaire". Now there's a recent song by T-Pain called "Trillionaire". I don't recommend either version to listen to.
When does it stop? How much does the story have to change in order to be reasonable to the listener or viewer? Every story told seems that it must have some basis in reality in order to stick with the listener. Even those stories that are all fantasy, like WALL-E.
This Pixar film is a wonderful children's story about a robot named WALL-E who barely speaks. Still, the film makers give human attributes to the robot and shows him falling in love with another robot. Even though this story is made up, it still has some connection with real life; love, perseverance, determination, etc.
I just wonder how the story lines of tomorrow will change in order to catch the attention of the masses. And yet some of those basic human conditions and emotions will always be a part of every great story.
Scott
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