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By GustavoLeao / 02:53, 17 July 2008 / Feature Films
LA.com posted a brief interview with actor Clifton Collins, who plays Ayel, the Romulan cohort and general to Nero, played by Eric Bana in J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie. Here are few excerpts of the article.
"He's totally reinvented the whole thing and taken the cheese out of it," says Collins about Abrams "I tried to watch some of the old ‘Star Treks' and with all due respect, they were probably cool at the time, but I couldn't watch them."
"This is the real deal. It's just got a lot of reality. It's not corny at all." he said regarding the new movie.
Collins confirmed that he and actor Eric Bana portray Romulans in the film. "I can't tell you too much, but me and Eric are some real bad dudes," he said.
More from Collins can be found here.
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Times have changed, and film makers cannot get away with that kind of story telling anymore, and while I have unlimited affection for the original series, thats the unfortunate reality.
You've jumbled several separate notions, and confuse story with medium, while promoting a video-arcade level of amusement.
Scenery and backdrop are for context, they aren't the storytelling. For GR's purposes, virtually every TOS story could readily transpose into a wild frontier "cowboys and indians" setting, with sweaty horses and smoking six-shooters instead of beaming and phasers.
The job of marketeers is to convince the consumer that every sweet apple is better when it's "enhanced" by the latest and greatest in colorful candy. After you've developed an appetite for processed sugar, the original fruit doesn't gratify. This is all the more true for viewers who are weaned on the superficial additives. Eventually, even a poison can become essential to what feels "right" for the fashionable addict.
Once upon a time, there were only ink-on-paper novels by "real" authors. Fans had to be literate, and they were compelled to actually use their mind's eye. TOS champions that standard among TV series.
Today, attention-deficit herds will reward the box-office for "modern" saccharin, in return for an optically triggered brain-chemistry "high", in under two hours, without thought enough to learn the spelling of SFX.
That is the unfortunate reality of a commercialized "New and Improved!" jingle culture.
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As to Collins's remarks representing a larger issue, no one's who has made that assertion has proven his point.
The irony is that, like Collins, you too buy into the larger issue. And you don't recognize this, thus you also affirm the "Can't see the forest for the trees" idiom.
Few people would be so (obviously) closed-minded as to admit they judge books by their covers -- but that's precisely what's happening when a person won't watch classic sci-fi (such as TOS) because of its retro window-dressing.
An attention-deficit audience refuses to engage the story, simply because of the wrapper it comes in.
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It's really inconsequential if Collins doesn't like Star Trek and finds it cheesy.
As noted here, several times by several posters: Collins' remarks represent a LARGER ISSUE about audiences in general.
The heart of the matter is presented in this thread, for anyone who's able to comprehend the words.
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You couldn't be any more right.
You couldn't be more oblivious to an issue that applies to TV and movies in general, due to the audience of "eye candy" junkies.
You're barely conscious enough to dribble more stupor into your keyboard.
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Last time I checked...
Once again, there's nothing in your response that addresses anything I've posted here. You're completely disjointed from the topic at hand, as usual, likely because of severe comprehension problems.
As others here have recognized, Collins both makes and illustrates the point of discussion.
Meanwhile, you're posting entirely irrelevant dialog from the voices in your head.
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This is probably the single-most predictable reaction to this kind of interview you can find on a Star Trek news web site.
Again and again, you're unable to process what's actually posted here -- so your response is another non-sequitur monologue from a little yellow script of soundbites in your head.
Collins' remarks raise an issue that applies to ANYONE who says classic sci-fi such as TOS is unwatchable and that something newer is the "real deal."
You speak on behalf of an attention-deficit audience that'll "outgrow" sci-fi material you've never even seen, particularly if it's "old."
You're the prized possession of a commercialized "New and Improved!" jingle culture that does not encourage its consumers to think.
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"I tried to watch some of the old 'Star Treks' and with all due respect, they were probably cool at the time, but I couldn't watch them."
With all due respect, Mr. Collins, if you can't get your head around TOS then you don't understand Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek -- which means you wouldn't know the "real deal" even if it beamed directly into your living room (which TOS continues to do, via worldwide TV reruns).
A constant and indiscriminate craving for something "new but realistic" is what Paramount feeds by giving TOS a CGI facelift. Ditto for the colorization of some classic black-and-white films.
The perception problem is yours, sir.
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