Saturday, May 17, 2008

Narrative Control Films

Everyone from the 80's remembers choose your own adventure stories. Given our proven faith in the ability for technology to do anything here at Aught Empire, I think we could do this with movies and even more subtlety. Like perhaps on your remote at any point you could simply hit: happier or sadder, funnier or more likable, more serious, more boring, prettier. And the movie then at the next turn and unseen by the viewer as a noticeable change, starts being so. That way you never hit the end of a storyline and have to choose a specific fate. Instead you choose a quality of film that you'd prefer to see.

Say you're watching a romantic comedy and you hate all of the characters. You could simply choose to turn it into a drama and that way you'll know that someone is going to die horribly. I mean, you could clearly take this even further, but I think that is enough for today.

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