Monday, November 13, 2006

Unholy Alliances of Entertainment

I am so fed up with the American Entertainment Industry’s rampant attempt to cash in on their citizens' poor knowledge! I mean, how many twisted versions of historic and popular characters are we going to have in HOLLYWOOD?! They turn Robin Hood into a karate-kicking master of magic while the great Greek mythological Hercules appears as some kind of ”boy wonder”! And what’s up with all this incorrect and unholy alliances? They put Dracula and Frankenstein together in the same geographical location and historic period in Van Helsing! And the American people, mostly unaware about the accurate facts regarding the classic personas, just buy it! One can even put BATMAN and ZORRO in the same movie without most of the viewers even raising an eyebrow! In the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the American company insisted to include Tom Sawyer! Just for the Americans to recognise at least one as their own! But they didn’t care about ruining both the original line-up/story AND their own classic character in literature! Exactly HOW does this help the already misguided youth in their correct understanding of the popular history? God knows!