Monday, August 11, 2008

Can Some Ideas Be Too Creative?

I recently promoted the upcoming movie, "Hamlet 2," at the annual Comic-Con in San Diego. This event had over 120,000 attendees over the four-day show. The comedy is about an awful actor who becomes a terrible high school drama teacher. He comes up with an idea that is rather absurd to me and calls the script, "Hamlet 2." Besides one of the characters in the show being potentially offensive to certain people, the concept is wacky. As you may know, the main characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet die at the end of the play. Due to the inclusion of a time machine, the high school production of H2 in the movie moves forward successfully. The idea can be viewed as silly, stupid, cute, or a work of genius. Who is to say what it is or what it isn't? The juxtaposition of theater and film combined with some imagination and letting go can sometimes lead to a neat idea. Even one that is perhaps too creative.

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