Better and better CGI allows “live action” movies to get closer and closer to cartoons. Successful cartoons run forever (Simpsons, etc.) and can easily be restarted or rebooted. So now movies and even TV shows can run forever.
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Or maybe a better analogy is comicbooks. Soap operas plus bounded weirdness (superhero genre, zombie genre, etc.) seems to be able to run for longer than any TV show has (yet). This explains Walking Dead and MCU. GoT-like could go this route, too.
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We're trending toward an age where a single person or small team could make a top quality production themselves. I hope that leads to an idiosyncratic auteur golden age to follow this one.
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Be careful what you wish for! As tech made books, songs, moves, TV cheaper to produce, we have ever less common culture binding us together. Right now the only thing left is super-movies like Avatar and Avengers. Snap those and we have ZERO common culture.
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Very much. And more importantly who could afford it.
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Haven't we had franchises (Star Wars) since the 70s? I'm sure improved CGI has helped, esp. golden age TV, but wanted to say that we've had this from a while.
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I don't think so. I think it's changes in distribution (niche TV) PLUS changes in demo (creators + audience both aware of conventions, tired of same old same old, tolerating the pace and depth of these worlds).
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Deep worlds are not new (soap operas) but they were SLOW. Niche TV was necessary to allow experimentation and show that the audience was there. CGI is the least of it. Marvel and DC have access to same CGI, but one of them GETs it, other did not.
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