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A Foxtrot in Mental Country
Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:12:27 GMT
What follows is what you might call a rant. For this I do not apologise.!['[info]']('http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif')
rossmills has drawn my attention to Dimensional Manga a group of UK manga wannabes who seem to be what you might call bat-shit fucking loco.
Here's an example of a quote from them:
'The characters do not drive the story, but rather the story drives the characters. This feature stops limitations that would have otherwise existed. For that reason this story will not go stale or limited. This brings about the possibility of 'morphic and multi-morphic' story telling, which are courtesy of fifth dimensional thinking.'
You see fifth diemsional, that's one dimension more than any of the stories YOU write! For that matter I've never seen a morphic story from any of you never mind a multi-morphic story.
On their website they (falsely) claim to have registered trademarks on two amazing concepts:
- FeatureManga - The idea here seems to be to tell an entire story in a single volume. IMAGINE THAT! Imagine if they'd somehow told stories like Watchmen, V for Vendetta in a single graphic novel. That would have been so much better than them dragging on for 40 volumes. (I know they were originally released as individual comics you pedants)
- LayerShift - Apparently this is a new kind of way of twisting the story the likes of which have never been seen ever. Having seen Lynch's Inland Empire I'd like to see them top that in terms of nonsensical unpredictable twistyness.
Now if all this is any way confusing here's a transcript of the concepts section of their website that I have copied without anyway asking for permission:
The First Dimension
Stories with little or no point or plot.
The basis is just plain fun or entertainment.
The Second Dimension
Where the basic premise is that of Good vs. Evil.
Black or white if you will or right and wrong.
The Third Dimension
All of the above but with added 'twists'.
This adds more layers as well as just 'black and white'. The mentality is that things are never just 'black and white'.
The Fourth Dimension
The story mixes 1D, 2D, 3D, but...
it questions the validity of all those dimensions as well as its own - 'Bending the rules' we take for granted as 'solid or real'. Our reality may not be as 'solid' as it 'appears'. The 'signal' that reaches your brain and then 'processes' through your 'filters', makes it solid. But what if you were able to 'see' or even 'interact' before this filtering stage occurs... That is fourth dimensional. In any case, conspiracies and theories of high magnitude fit this dimension too.
The Fifth Dimension
A five dimensional story has all the other dimensions with extreme depth in its 'construction', (this is very central in this dimension) as well as content. A five dimensional story cannot be predicted or predictable like 1 to 3 dimensional stories. This in itself is a key feature, using layered and multi-faceted techniques of manipulation.
All the dimensions were created in the fifth. The very 'rules' that govern all other dimensions stem from this alone.
The fifth is 'the point of creation' to which the very rules we play and live by, exist. There is a clear distinction between the fifth dimension and the rest – the fact that the other dimensions are tangible and yet the fifth is not. Dimensions 1 to 4 have rules we 'use', 'identify' with, 'tag' and 'label', or apply a 'logical or emotional' stand point.
Suggestion: try to apply dimensions 1-4 that you have just read to; FILMS/CARTOONS/BOOKS. See what fits where....
Anyway as you might guess, I think this is all utter nonsense because quite simply it is. Anyone who talks like this HAS to be incapable of telling a story that is worth reading. Thing is it genuinely annoys me as I hate this kind of idiotic pretentiousness masquerading as intellectualism. Especially as there always seems to be a stream of idiots who defend it as interesting, new and groundbreaking, when all it really is someone who doesn't really understand basic story telling concepts and so makes up their own and thinks they're the new Shakespeare.
UGH! RAGE!!!
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