Prequel and Sequel

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Salvador Dali once said, “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing”. This statement holds a lot of truth as we grow up as ‘copiers’; that is how we learn everything, to get a fundamental knowledge of anything you have to begin by copying before you can progress onto something more original. Yet nothing is truly original, everything has been inspired by something and most things can be deemed a prequel or sequel of something else.

               Kirby Ferguson created a series of videos called Everything is a Remix, explaining his thoughts on how nothing is original more and the ways in which we can legally remix. He talks of Led Zeppelin and how this famous Rock band copy a lot of riffs from blues songs and even copy lyrics and names from other songs without giving the original artist attribute or marketing it as a cover. Ferguson explains how this remixing spreads over to the film industry also. A lot of recent films rely heavily on known content and a lot of the recent top films are either a prequel, sequel or remake of an existing film. Or the film falls into a genre/subgenre where all films in the category follow a particular set of rules. George Lucas, when creating Star Wars was saturated in film knowledge and many of the iconic Star Wars scenes are heavily influenced by other films. A more recent director example is Quentin Tarantino and his film Kill Bill which, like Star Wars, has many iconic scenes that are very much influenced by previous films.  
Everything is a Remix Remastered (2015 HD) from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

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