Did you know that from 2001-2011, 75% of the top 10 movies from each year were sequels, remakes of earlier movies, or adaptations of books, video games, etc.?
There is a series on Vimeo called “Everything is a Remix.” It has just four parts, and the longest one is 15 minutes.
The videos are quite straight forward really, and they talk about some things that you might know, but probably rarely think about. For instance, the fact above. When the video was made, 74 of the last 100 top hits were not original ideas.
In the first video, he talks a lot about the difference between remixing and ripoffs. He explains that much of what the band Led Zeppelin did was more ripoffs than it was remixes.
Remixing is taking an idea from someone else and changing it up and creating something new.
Ripoff is taking what someone made and barely changing it and claiming you made it. There’s a difference for sure.
In the second video, He dives specifically into movies. He says “Transforming the old into the new is Hollywood’s greatest talent”
He says that even movies that aren’t directly related to any other movie still have things taken from other movies. And almost all movies fit into “genre templates,” as he calls them.
Everything is a remix. Even this post about the video about remixes…is a remix. Embrace it and learn how to use it correctly in a way that won’t hurt the artist.
What has been will be again, What has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 NIV
Well done reviews of this series.