random observation: the game Doom got its name from a scene in a Scorsese movie (The Color of Money), and Scorsese was influenced by Akira Kurosawa, so in an indirect little way, you can kinda say Akira Kurosawa influenced Doom
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although I suppose if you zoom out, you could say that Akira Kurosawa basically influenced almost everything
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Ah, Kurosawa, the absolute mad lad.
Yeah, he really was something.
Makes me think there should be some continuation to that "great artists steal" line...
"... exceptional artists get stolen from," maybe?
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I feel like stealing in art implies a certain... smallness
when you get as big as kurosawa, culturally speaking, it's like you become the dominant lens through which everyone sees. like... it feels weird to say "stealing ideas from the bible" for eg
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I totally agree, although I always thought the phrase was intended tongue in cheek.
On the other hand, I got memed by a friend and had a tweet go viral that was actually a copypasta.
People appear in droves to go "nice stolen joke/glory/likes."
Have trouble comprehending this.
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yea; my personal frame is that everything is a remix, and the only thing that really matters is that your mixes are good and interesting. I never fault anybody for *having* references; only for being too X about their references (X = deceitful, obnoxious, etc)
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Are you familiar with the concept of a Schelling point?
Artists like Kurosawa create new Schelling points, that's kinda their function. New super-attractor nodes in the cultural graph is another way to think about it.
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It's not that I don't understand the concept of the status game and plagiarism.
Rather, I have trouble comprehending the mind that would feel elevated by deliberately hiding the source of a joke.
Whereas if you're sharing or iterating on something you heard, what's the issue?