Film De-Evolution Theory

Ideas and ideal have been endangered in the film today; this is in a direct result of the lack of creativity forfeited by the proposition of currency. The accountant has no place in film as politics has no place in literature yet both seem to have become comfortable in their unwelcome stay. The evolution of film that has been put forth by its very own double, its very own minions (i.e. Spike Lee, Darren Aronofsky, Roger Ebert, Claude Chabrol, Joss Whedon, David Fincher, Marianna Palka) is devolved by the exhaustion of idea, or a single idea, that has created a flurry of attention. The De-evlolution Theory states that when an idea is used repeatedly, it is worn to the point of viewer exhaustion. The "idea" in this manner is identical to a condom; meant to be used once, discarded, else it holds no effective prophylaxis against pregnancy or infection. This pregnancy, in film, is a molar pregnancy, producing no substantial offspring, no potency behinds its fertilization, the infection, causing sterility of all organs used to produced viable offspring.

The idea, as a fetus, must be nurtured, cared for, if it is to ever grow to reach its full potential. One child cannot be truly possessed by more than one mother; it only identifies with one, reaches its full potential in the image of one.

There have been great ideas that reached the motion picture and some we are yet awaiting. The ones that we know have come, returned and have yet to leave.

Example:

1) The 2001 Film [Save the Last Dance] Starring Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas brought the union of two people from two worlds together with dance as the common bond, the common thread. Ballet and urban dance meshed as it never had before in a film. With the success, came not new ideas, but only a mockery. [Saved the Last Dance] was followed by the identical [Honey, 2003], [Step up, 2006] and the more creative [Stomp the Yard, 2007]. Of all those that took the idea of "dance" as a central theme for a film, only [Save the Last Dance] in its originality and [Stomp the Yard] in its creativity made sense to be film; the rest along with their sequels, fell to nonsensical.

2) Transformers of 2007, Directed by Michael Bay, starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, borrowed the idea from the 1984-1991 running comics "Tranformers," giving comic book lovers yet another thrill in the motion picture world and sci-fi lovers something to pace over. Film 2-4 becomes unnecessary, as presumptiously number 5 will be, scheduled for 2016. Sequels are rarely warranted in film unless it is truly for the purpose to tell a story that has been left untold. Most sequels have been filmed to recapture the public's attention and thus, the public's currency. Only few have been set in the purpose of an exceptional following (i.e. The Godfather.)


The notion that history repeats itself is only true to the cliche-ential, ignorant to history itself. History never repeats itself; every event is bred by different circumstances; so while it seems a likeness, it is never one in the same. Film cannot, must not, be the exception to the law of history refusing to fold back onto itself. What as entertained the generations in the past can return to do the same today but filmmakers must not rely on those masterpieces of the past to pave their career, to become their career as opposed to solely inspiring it.