In my American Studies class, this week, we talking about authors writing about their own lives. How did they chose what part went into the book? Why did they pick those selected parts? This week I was watching the TV show
The Walking Dead and I started thinking about how writers come up with plot ideas that are non-fiction. However they create their idea, a lot of writer must think a lot alike because now-a-days there are a lot of shows, movies, and books about post-apocalyptic societies.
On TV right now there are about ten shows about post-apocalyptic societies. I think that we can blame all of these shows on the Mayans prediction of our upcoming apocolypse. A lot of the plots especially focus on apocolypses with zombies. I wonder if these writers actually believe in what they are writing or if they are writing to entertain?
I wonder how so many shows, books, and movies can have the same plot and can be so popular?
In my opinion, they can be so popular because they don't have "the same plot". Simply saying "I'm going to write a story about life after the apocalypse" is not a plot; I believe the industry calls this a premise.
ReplyDeleteIn this way, every zombie movie can be fundamentally different from every other zombie movie. The variety, and hence popularity, comes from the (heh) execution.
I have noticed the popularity or the zombie movies a lot as well, however I do not agree that any two are very alike. As a writer, the goal is to be different. You want to reach a wide variety of people, yet still put your own spin on things. Zombies are in, so zombie movie and shows come out, but each writer is striving to be different, they want to create a zombie show better than the next.
ReplyDeleteHowever, with so many writers out there movies and plots somehow do seem the same. I love a good rom-com, but I've seen so many that I feel like they are all predictable and the same. I'm not say I want to watch a whole movie and then have the ending be sad, but I do agree with you about similarities in writing here.