In T.S. Eliot's, Tradition
and the Individual Talent, he believes that there is no such thing as
“original thought.” All ideas have to come from somewhere, but everything
else is a copy. I good example of this is Hollywood. The story line
is typically- he gets the girl, he loses the girl, and he gets the girl at the
end. Another story line is that the hero always saves the day...and
lives. If the story ever ends differently, the audience will be upset
because we are used to the same thing…over and over again. Everyone is getting into Vampires and
Zombies now, but what about Dracula? That idea was brought forth in the late
1800’s. We do not have new ideas,
we are just altering them to accommodate to our decade. There is nothing wrong with that, but
with years of writing and directing movies and books, how can we come up with
original ideas?
"If you're gonna be original,
you can count on being copied."
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