Tuesday TED: J. J. Abrams
By JP Frantz |
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at
12:11 am
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a yearly conference held in Long Beach and “brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).” They then post the best of these talks online for all to see, and they have a bunch of really cool speakers. One of them was J.J. Abrams, who, in 2007, talked about the ‘mystery’ box he bought as a child and how it has influenced his shows, and specifically LOST.
Of course, at some point, TV/movie viewers are going to want to look in the box. Yeah, I’m looking at you Cloverfield.
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Mystery is the reason to engage with a story… but yes, there has to be a there there. David Lynch was/is a master of building the mystery, but he never bothered to explain it.
Any time I see a story or series that just piles on seemingly random things, events and interactions without reason, we’re eventually going to strive for a greater reason.
Sometimes it just isn’t there.
Maybe there’s a greater purpose to LOST, bit I gave up trying to find it a season or so ago.
Amazing that the clip he shows from Lost was what made my suspension of disbelief go BAM the first time.
Look at the plane. Look at the shape it is in. Is there actually enough structural integrity left for a fuel tank to be intact?
And the dang engines are running and don’t go ka-boom until some putz runs in front of it.
Sorry, “Firefly” was more believeable.