Get Back The Covers

Its feels so unnatural having to say your own name.

I am effectively self-patronizing myself with this one. New idea. Say you have watched a film a hundred times. You have seen that same film every time, with the exception of the circumstances in which you are watching it. This in fact makes every time in which you are watching a film different. How we judge and perceive films becomes influenced by every aspect of the environment in which we are viewing it. It seems obvious at first that one will have a different reaction to a film seen in the theatre versus a computer screen due to visual quality etc. but what about the meal you had before that film. Or maybe you had a bad breakup and you watch Annie Hall. How are these infinite number of variables affecting one's psychological and physiological makeup at the time of perception? Would someone choose to watch Aliens after having abdominoplasty? Most of the movies I have seen, I have already been exposed to a predecessor with a similar script or idea, without any real innovation in the making of the film. Everything inevitably has some previous media acting as an allegory for the film, and most of us can recognize it as we watch it. This brings me to the idea of "covering" songs, and a question of whether or not one can properly re-interpret or "cover" a film, and how the quality and experience of the film becomes entirely different after it has been "redone". This layering of visual and auditory history becomes different with every iteration of a cover. Say one decides that they are going to "cover" a "cover". Where do the intellectual property rights become negated? If one is covering a cover, it becomes very difficult to differentiate between the original material, the material that is re-interpreted, and the re-interpretation of that re-interpreted material. Do I have to pay "the dan band," or "bonnie tyler". Not that these are realistic concerns, I just thought it was a neat idea.

As a completely separate corollary, I was wondering to what extent one could manipulate and re-interpret a film so that it becomes unique from the original work. If I take a popular movie with an extremely linear storyline and re-organize the elements of the film in a different order, is it enough. What if you find out Darth Vader is Luke's father in the first five minutes of empire strikes back. How much would this change one's interpretation of the film? Or would it remain the same because of one's previous knowledge of the film if it has been watched previously?

As a public service announcement, I would like to let everyone know that you're not allowed to use the word "coloured" anymore.