“Our legendary personalities are evergreen ‘brands’ with the benefit of worldwide recognition,” reads a message on the Richman agency’s website. Guardian UK Article *vomits* Where is the line drawn between “public figure” and “celebrity”? How can a dead person have an agent, particulary where there are no specific works concerned other than a sense of character? It’s one thing to insist that Duck Soup is a work that should be protected (which any more simply means controlled by whomever has the most buX0rs), but shouldn’t personalities and such pass into the public domain as well? ( boingboing : Bill Gates 0wns Einstein, Groucho , Freud, Asimov, Fuller, et al )
Now go watch the trailer for the Illusionist and then there will be a quiz where you have to prove you can tell them apart.
ReplyDeleteActually, they look like a similar era, similar production design, and otherwise entirely different stories from each other. I'll happily see both.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise entirely different aside from both stories focusing on a stage magician who may or may not have actual magic powers.
ReplyDeleteThere are some obvious differences to be sure, but I'm still trying to figure out which team saw the others trailer first, and whether there was any effort (or will be in the future) to make their differences more obvious.
A stage magician who might have real powers, in the heyday of magician stageshows (Vegas withstanding) didn't really stand out as coincident as the era and production design did to me, for some reason.
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