{"id":109329,"date":"2022-01-27T20:15:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T02:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=109329"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T18:50:37","slug":"pending-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=109329","title":{"rendered":"Pending Sequels&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=109329\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=109329\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109330 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sequels-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sequels-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sequels-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sequels-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sequels-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sequels-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>By Radical Rhymes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I remember taking seminars on the McDonaldization thesis of George Ritzer. Students used to love it as much as they resisted it. Part of that thesis was a warning about the dangers of sequels in entertainment. He argued that the growing temptation amongst the funders of movies and books, for example, would be to sanction more sequels.<\/p>\n<p>That, in itself, need not be a bad thing, but if the tendency grows too far it leads to the suppression of originality and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Why would that be the case?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Because creators find it easier to write about existing worlds and characters than summon them anew. Viewers also like to observe or read about the familiar, rather than take a chance on something unknown. Why invest in a risk? Why not just follow well-trodden paths? And of course, paymasters always prefer to back a winning formula.<\/p>\n<p>And so we have seen an increase in movies that have no real ending. Always left open for the potential sequel. When I first encountered the &#8216;it isn&#8217;t really over&#8217; ending it was a shock &#8211; a good one. How brilliant that the vanquished evil remained as a living threat.<\/p>\n<p>But these days this kind of ending is not a novelty it&#8217;s become the rule. Film after film ends in the same way. The glint in the eye, the subtle movement, or the unexplained event. Once this would elicit a shiver of excitement, now, it simply draws a weary sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the saddest part is that these decisions are not taken for creative reasons, they are all about the finances. If a movie does well it will get the sequel, if it doesn&#8217;t, it won&#8217;t. This means that poor films sometimes get follow ups, while good ones are left hanging, unfinished, incomplete.<\/p>\n<p>Finances squash brilliance and furnish mediocrity and sometimes worse.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I am starting to tire of the superhero movie. It appears that they offer endless reboots, endless timelines and endless series. I watched one last night that really made me feel that my love affair with the genre has severely cooled.<\/p>\n<p>For me, it&#8217;s time to seek out the unknown in entertainment terms, time to shun the familiar, it&#8217;s time to take a risk. Familiarity really can breed contempt.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>Radical Rhymes is a professional artist working with a range of media &#8211; predominantly animal\/human portraits and landscapes &#8211; including, most recently, hand painted furniture. You can see his work on Instagram Radicalrhymes1969 or on Twitter <a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhymesRadical\">@RhymesRadical.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>For commissions, please contact him on Twitter via Direct Message or by email at: radicalrhymes@outlook.com His work is also available to buy on <a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/uk\/shop\/RadicalRhymes?ref=search_shop_redirect\">Etsy<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Radical Rhymes I remember taking seminars on the McDonaldization thesis of George Ritzer. Students used to love it as much as they resisted it. Part of that thesis was a warning about the dangers of sequels in entertainment. He argued that the growing temptation amongst the funders of movies and books, for example, would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28133],"class_list":["post-109329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-pending-sequels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109329"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}