Talk:The Girl and the Deceitful One/@comment-25464062-20141006001957/@comment-24040907-20141205003936

Aww, I’ve been trying to find Nosferatu for a while! Last Halloween I went back and watched the classics: Frankenstein, Invisible Man (My favorite), and Dracula. I have yet to see Nosferatu, though. Tell me it was wonderful!



It’s not strange that the bright colors annoy you. I’ll tell you, when they first came out with Technicolor, people went absolutely nuts. They inserted long, boring, and downright terrifying scenes into their films that rarely had anything to do with the plot, just to say “Hey, look at all the pretty colors, people!”



But nowadays things are different. Directors utilize color to their advantage in ways the masses seldom notice. Take Transformers, for example. Everything is either Orange or Cyan in that movie. The things that are important are Orange, and the background is Cyan. Megan Fox running onscreen? Tan her until she looks like an Oompa loompa! But make sure all of the buildings are the exact same tint of blue! A scene with BumbleBee in it? Make the Camaro orange and the roads Cyan!



And it’s not just Transformers. If you want your movie set in the Apocalypse (because where else would you set it?) everything needs to be a washed out gray/green. Want to do a horror movie? Everything needs to be dark blue.



It just drives me crazy! Thanks for listening to me rant and rave : )



Now, onto more important matters! I really liked what you said about idols. There’s an old saying; “Never meet your hero.” It’s because your heroes are often very different in real life then they are in your mind. If I ever got to meet Steve Jobs, he’d probably sue me for having eyeballs (IBalls ©). If   I ever met Stevie Wonder, he’d probably be so annoyed by me that he’d flip me off (somehow knowing exactly where I am when he does so). It would break my heart on so many levels.



And yeah, some artists just get lucky. The Hunger Games, although written by a 52-year-old woman, appeals to teenaged girls who feel isolated, like they’re being put in a tooth-and-nail competition with their peers, directed by those nasty, evil grown-ups. Would Bela Lugosi approve of Twilight? I don't know, but the entire youth of planet Earth seems to approve xD



I wish there was an algorithm, a perfect formula to decode what makes something famous. Is it decided by chance alone? Do some great works just slip through the cracks, while others step on faces to get to the top? I’m not sure I’ll ever find out. However, it certainly is nice to have someone else to think on this with : )