Posted on 06/24/2017 6:24:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If you don’t like the way a story ends, why not change it?
That’s exactly what Netflix is encouraging viewers do with a brand new children’s show called “Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale.”
As the show progresses, kids get to make a series of choices to move the story in any direction.
As a reading experience, good. On tv, bad ... because it’s another reason for children not to pick up a book.
I like the concept, though. One of our family pastimes is alternate histories. What if “this” went differently? Then what? It makes everyone think.
You mean life Jane Curtin?
Garbled, does not compute.
Another crappy movie.
Kind of reminds me of the ending to Season 3 of Fargo that just finished (SPOILER ALERT!).
5 years after the story ends, the humble female cop now works for DHS, and is interrogating the evil mastermind in Brussels. She tells him, “in five minutes three men will come through that door, put you on a plane to NYC and take you to Rikers Island where you will be charged with 1st degree murder and income tax evasion, and I’ll go home and take my son to the State Fair for fried Snickers”.
He says “I’ll tell you what will happen, in less than five minutes a man who you will be powerless to stop will walk through that door with an order for me to be released”.
She thinks for a second, then says, “Nope, Rikers and Snickers”. He just smiles at her and the camera shows the door and fades out. The viewer is left to decide how it ends, and by extension what kind of world we really live in.
“Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else’s vision. The fact of the matter is, since the beginning of time, you could buy a Picasso and change the colors. That’s trivial. But you don’t because you’re buying a piece of Picasso’s $&#**^% soul. That’s the definition of art: Art is one person’s ego trip.”
- Penn Jillette
Yeah, but what does Teller have to say about it?
I picture director and film crew scrambling out constantly to reshoot certain scenes with every kids request.
That’s a pretty good “The Lady or the Tiger”-type of ending.
There was a scene from the movie Fahrenheit 451 where the TV had a story, and at points in the drama the narrator would stop and ask the viewers what was supposed to happen.
"What if Superman were born in Germany?" (You might see a future senator)
Also, "What if Napolean Had a B-52 Bomber?" "What if Eleanor Roosevelt Could Fly?" "What if Spartacus Had a Piper Cub?"
Oh, now I get it. I did not know that. My SNL experience was very limited.
I can scarcely believe that I never saw that one.
It must have run when I was living overseas.
Rather daring actually, by today’s standards.
Thanks for that link.
“What if hillary was human?”
You’ll have to wait until the end of the movie to find out.
Only one choice: “Sit in front of the monitor”.
Heh, well intentioned, maybe.
Probably end up a “Black Mirror” episode.
Wow! What a reminder of how great SNL once was. Thanks for the link.
Didn’t the Tom Hanks character come up with this idea in the movie “BIG”?
How times change.
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