Saturday, January 7, 2012
Documentary idea
So, I'm considering making a documentary this year. Not sure yet if this is gonna happen or not, I may do a poll to get people's opinions if the documentary is worth doing or not. The idea just hit me randomly one day. I've always wanted to interview ppl who appreciate fan culture i.e. anime, games, comics, etc. especially at conventions. But then it occurred to me. What do most parents think of their kids who are interested in fan culture as a hobby? As I go around interviewing ppl, we must ask them how their parents feel about their interests. I want this documentary to be revealing the "truth" about fan culture and that's not really as "bad" as some parents may think it is, as long it's done in a reasonable/somewhat moderation. Although hundreds or even thousands of dollars spent each year on games, anime, comics, etc may seem extreme, I would wanna point out to parents who may see this documentary that would you rather your kids spend money on those things or on drugs and alcohol for example? And is it really such a bad thing to spend on games and animation which technically may open up your child's creativity and heaven forbid their level of philosophy/intellect on the world? Whether this documentary happens or not, I want to at least express in this post that I myself, have numbers of friends including myself who take fan culture as a large interest and/or hobby. I, myself like to consider myself a fanboy and I'm not ashamed of that. The thing that really stumps me is how is it that our society has gotten to the point where characters on Jersey Shore, Laguna Beach, MTV, club scenes, hipster culture, being an asshole gets you more women, etc. has become societal norms? Even though these are all exaggerated through the media, the influence of the media eventually surfaces to some degree of reality. An idea becomes a fictional reality, which turns into an actual reality. The point is, although all these things are dubbed "immoral", somehow the young generation gets away doing these things and having these misbehaviors and atrocities while their parents live in denial of them or are too busy/overoccupied to even notice the obscenity of their teenage kids who idolize these MTV/Jersey Shore/hipster douchebags for lack of a better term. And then the kids who like the "safe stuff", fan stuff, is considered evil. It's true. Some of my friends have to hide the fact that they are going to an anime convention or that their parents won't agree with their gaming habits. Good job parents of America. You truly set a good example to your kids. Keep punishing your kids who play their games and watch their anime while you let their douche sibling smoke weed during school hours. But oh yeah you can't notice that there's something wrong with them. They're too clever, they hide it from you. Or maybe you have noticed, but you've given up trying to help fix them. Or maybe it's just easier to lay the the blame on your kid playing Skyrim, because hey that's just totally unethical right there.
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