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Post by timegirl on Sept 1, 2020 1:39:54 GMT
Has anyone ever noticed that that your perception of different genres of fiction changes as you get older?
For example, when I was in high school I loved a lot of sitcoms with lots of cringe humor such as The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and would laugh without even squirming at the awkward situations characters would get into. Now as I get further into my twenties, I feel more squirmy and embarrassed when I watch anything with cringe comedy. I still enjoy it, but now I guess since as an adult I can see myself getting into similar awkward situations or have noticed more often other people get into awkwardness, it feels a bit more painful to watch. I’ve always have been a socially awkward introvert but I guess I just notice interpersonal awkwardness in fiction more as I get older. Sometimes I even find myself hiding my face watching awkward sitcoms.
Do you guys have any genres of fiction that your perception has changed over time?
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Post by Digi on Sept 1, 2020 5:42:38 GMT
Has anyone ever noticed that that your perception of different genres of fiction changes as you get older? For example, when I was in high school I loved a lot of sitcoms with lots of cringe humor such as The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and would laugh without even squirming at the awkward situations characters would get into. Now as I get further into my twenties, I feel more squirmy and embarrassed when I watch anything with cringe comedy. I still enjoy it, but now I guess since as an adult I can see myself getting into similar awkward situations or have noticed more often other people get into awkwardness, it feels a bit more painful to watch. I’ve always have been a socially awkward introvert but I guess I just notice interpersonal awkwardness in fiction more as I get older. Sometimes I even find myself hiding my face watching awkward sitcoms. Do you guys have any genres of fiction that your perception has changed over time? That is a huge part of their appeal to a ton of people, myself included  |
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Post by shutupbanks on Sept 1, 2020 10:48:26 GMT
Romance novels. I still don’t read them but when I was writing I read a couple of interviews with romance writers (because I was after any kind of advice) and fell down a rabbit hole of reading about formula fiction. Most romance publishers will only accept novels of a certain length but you also have to follow a formula to the letter: Certain events have to happen by a certain word/page count and you cannot deviate from it. So I read a few of them and took some notes and discovered that, yes, you could pretty much set a clock to them. Going by that scenario I proceeded to write one and... it is damned hard. In the end I gave it up and just let it write itself: the characters kept wanting to do what they wanted, not what the plot dictated. Which was when I realised that any kind of commercial writing or art shouldn’t be sneered at because if a person is able to make people keep buying them through such a limited range of options they must be doing something right. In a way, it’s like writing a sonnet or a limerick or a three-minute pop song. There are only so many combinations of words or notes out there and if you can create something original within all of that that keeps people coming back for more you are doing something right and brilliant.
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Post by polly on Sept 1, 2020 22:54:27 GMT
Oh, lots. I think the recurring theme is becoming less self-conscious and being able to pursue my own tastes, but I'll give some examples.
Musicals - Love 'em. Used to be highly embarrassed at the very idea of them, and thus refused to give them a chance. It's that adolescent "I'm too cool for that" mentality. So then it ended up being completely the other way, where I tried to show Singin' in the Rain to a room full of my fellow teenagers, who looked at me like I was from the moon or something.
Science Fiction - Grew up on sci-fi, loved it as a kid. In my teenage years, I once again became self-conscious and swore off the genre because being a Trekkie was most uncool. I also felt that the idealism of Trek specifically had no place in a miserable world such as ours. Battlestar Galactica reeled my grumpy behind back in, and later I grew out of such cynicism altogether. So now, I'm grumbling about newer Trek straying from the very optimism I once derided.
Animation - If you want to count it as its own genre. I have always liked traditional animation, but I have stopped watching newer films, because they're all CGI now, which I hate. I also gave up on anime entirely because it wastes too much time, and reading manga instead is much more efficient.
Horror - My parents were very strict about what I could watch, and so growing up I saw very few horror films. I had a mix of fascination/intimidation with them. When I was an adult, I started catching up on them, and it's become a favorite genre of mine.
Comedy - I went through a pretty serious film-snob phase from around 15-18 years old. I decided that all comedy was automatically low brow. I have since relearned to have some fun every once in a while.
I hope that's the kind of stories you were looking for.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2020 12:41:15 GMT
My initial lack of interest in Westerns can be blamed on Napoleon Bonaparte. There's a sentence I don't get to say very often.  True enough, though. For the longest time, my friends and I weren't interested in frontier stories largely because, in hindsight, we found similar tropes and situations in Napoleonic era historical series like Hornblower and Sharpe. Nowadays, I've noticed I'm starting to develop a growing interest in the genre, purely from the fact that we never covered it in much depth before. Most, if not all of it, feels rather new. Edit: Now that I think about it, I'd be open to suggestions from people on what films/television series I can put in a "sample bag" for the genre. |
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Post by polly on Sept 2, 2020 19:10:25 GMT
My initial lack of interest in Westerns can be blamed on Napoleon Bonaparte. There's a sentence I don't get to say very often. True enough, though. For the longest time, my friends and I weren't interested in frontier stories largely because, in hindsight, we found similar tropes and situations in Napoleonic era historical series like Hornblower and Sharpe. Nowadays, I've noticed I'm starting to develop a growing interest in the genre, purely from the fact that we never covered it in much depth before. Most, if not all of it, feels rather new. Edit: Now that I think about it, I'd be open to suggestions from people on what films/television series I can put in a "sample bag" for the genre. I am a lover of Westerns so I'll give you quite a few. I'm skipping over tons of classic films that any list will give you, this is just a personal list. John WayneRio Bravo - Simple premise, wonderful cast of characters. Remade as Assault on Precinct 13. The Searchers - A much darker take than usual for The Duke. Sam PeckinpahRide the High Country Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid - home of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" The Wild Bunch - Set during the Mexican revolution in the 1910s. The quintessential "End of the West" movie. Very bloody, especially by 60s standards.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - Set in the modern day, but very much a Western.
Sergio Leone
A Fistful of Dollars - Dollars Trilogy 1, remake/ripoff of Yojimbo For a Few Dollars More - Dollars Trilogy 2 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Dollars Trilogy 3 Once Upon a Time in the West - Leone's crowning epic A Fistful of Dynamite aka Duck You Sucker - Like The Wild Bunch, set at the end of the era in Mexico. Other Spaghetti Westerns
Django Death Rides a Horse The Great Silence My Name is Nobody Other Contemporary Westerns
Bad Day at Black Rock The Misfits El Mariachi, Desperado, & Once Upon a Time in Mexico Other Personal Picks
Johnny Guitar My Darling Clementine - One of many, many versions of the OK Corral story. The Proposition - Recently saw this Australian film for the first time, and I really liked it. |
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Post by Digi on Sept 2, 2020 19:20:53 GMT
I enjoy Westerns once in a while but they're a long way from being a favourite...that said, I really enjoy The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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True enough, though. For the longest time, my friends and I weren't interested in frontier stories largely because, in hindsight, we found similar tropes and situations in Napoleonic era historical series like Hornblower and Sharpe. Nowadays, I've noticed I'm starting to develop a growing interest in the genre, purely from the fact that we never covered it in much depth before. Most, if not all of it, feels rather new.