Sequel Theory

[image error] Many people live their lives in a sequel: everything has happened before and usually better, the same faces making the same jokes to fewer laughs, all following a familiar plot point so that you know exactly how it ends. Some people like it like that though. There's comfort in the predictability. As long as you have some warm, friendly faces to spend the time with it's still worth your time and money. However, if you are paying people for your life you should probably make some new friends, stop gambling so much and possibly, just possibly, unplug yourself from that 'Better Than Life' machine and get 'Back to Reality'.

Ideally, you should live your life like an original film, but according to the saying everything has been done before. So good luck with starring in a story about invading Zargon warships while simultaneously having three thousand fulfilling monogamous relationships through time and space and a banana. Apparently, somebody has done that already. I would like to get his name and what he was taking at the time he wrote it. I'd also like to know where he hid it because I don't see it in my library or on IMDB.com

So, the best you can hope for is to have a life that is like the third film in a trilogy. It's not as memorable as the original experience but it's back to form and in some ways more hard hitting and impressive than the original adventure. There are some good examples in Die Hard with a Vengeance, Back to the Future Part 3, Toy Story 3, Army of Darkness and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. They are a redefining of the original concept, not just retelling of jokes. The core of the story has been retold in a new way, not just repeated. The moral has been mentioned for a third time and to much applause. Just like that last sentence.

That's how people need to be, but the truth is many lack the creativity to make this happen. It's not that the creativity isn't there, it's just been buried so long you are probably worried it will wake up craving brains. Don't worry. Humans are creative creatures by nature. It's society that slots us into boring little pockets like handkerchieves. Let your inner zombie out! You might just be surprised that he is vegetarian, and likes to play games, and doesn't shed limbs all over your carpet. And hopefully he doesn't smell bad either or the neighbours might complain. I'd hate to make your neighbours angry.

Here ends your little reminder. Just here =>.
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Published on March 20, 2012 04:09
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