Archive for August 25th, 2006
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I know the title for today’s comic is cheesy as all get-out, but I don’t care. I’m just going to sit back and bask in the first celebrity caricature I’ve drawn in the last four years that didn’t look like total crap.
Maybe you don’t think it looks like Tom Cruise, but I’m really happy with it. Caricature is one of my most prominent deficiencies (y’know, aside from being unfunny or uninsightful – but I’m talking about artistic deficiencies here!) I’ve been trying to get better at it. Small steps, folks. Small steps.
I’ll be back later in the day with more to say about Tom Cruise being kicked to the curb by Sumner Redstone at Paramount Pictures. It’s shaping up to be a very interesting story.
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I know we’ve beat this horse to death, but I wanted to direct you guys to an article that Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly wrote concerning Snakes on a Plane, it’s box office performance and the role of marketing in modern film – specifically as it relates to the internet.
Owen does a great job of addressing some of the very same concerns I had, but phrases them in a much more thought out way. He does this by citing the last great internet-by-means-of-marketing success story The Blair Witch Project and drawing comparisons to Snakes on a Plane forthwith. He draws the line between marketing’s siren song and the organic need to see a film of your own accord.
This was part of the debate I tried to generate. At what point do we become slaves to the buzz we create and at what point does genuine interest dictate the success of a film? Or, as Owen puts it, what do we sacrifice when fans turn themselves into marketers so they can be at the center of the action?
If you’re interested in getting a little extra insight on my position on Snakes on a Plane, Owen’s article comes from the same place I was.
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