Deluxis Entertainment: The Blog

“All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. This is particularly true of religious ideas, but the central concepts of science, philosophy, and ethics are no exception to this rule. In their present form they are variants of archetypal ideas created by consciously applying and adapting these ideas to reality. For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses, but to translate into visible reality the world within us.” -Carl Jung

Archetypes are universal symbols, the most basic representations of behavior and personality. Think of them as prototypes, primal forms from which all characters are derived. How are they useful to a storyteller or screenwriter? Archetypes help us understand a character’s role in terms of his or her placement in relation to the story.

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As we continue our examination on effective storytelling, we cannot overlook the phenomenon that is Harry Potter. First published in 1997, the robust series of young adult books has transcended itself into the hands of old adults and onto the big screen, becoming the highest grossing film franchise of all time. 

Author J.K. Rowling’s manner of writing aids the digestibility of her stories. Like the pop music of literature, she utilizes carefully produced and interwoven plot lines. Sentences are flowing — almost poetic — and thus lend themselves to silver screen transfer. The books, in and of themselves, were already cinematic.

Of course, one could write a complete volume on writing style. Here, we share some of the more outstanding elements.

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Nanobots. Lots of them. Floating through our blood streams, snapping at our synapses and repairing our bodies from within. Infused with advanced AI and launched off our planet, they will eventually explore and proliferate what’s evolved of humanity into the vastness of space.

Does this excite or frighten you?

Author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil’s ideas surely should do both. And in the new documentary Transcendent Man, his life and ideas are put on display, from Singularity — the point when technology and AI become so advanced our lives are fundamentally altered (no, this doesn’t include Twitter) — to his family life.

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Forgive me for citing an old-for-the-Internet article, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Germain Lussier’s Slashflim piece, “Roger Ebert Predicted The Future Of Film In 1987.” In it, he recalls Ebert’s 1987 predictions of HD widescreen televisions and on-demand entertainment. While accurate, it wasn’t really a stretch of the mind to predict that something we already had might get better, cheaper or more convenient. What sparks creativity is the re-imagining of the fundamental components of something we today take for granted.

For example, Google attempted to re-imagine email with Google Wave. While it may have only caught on with a small subset of the nerd population before getting rebranded, it was still an ambitious and creative reformatting of something we are entirely accustomed to.

No doubt, the television experience of the future will incorporate all the aspects of the everyday tech we implement into our lives — social media, tablets, wireless connections and, I hope in a few years, flying cars (we were promised). However, what won’t change is our need for quality content. The best stories will always follow the patterns timelessly ingrained into the collective unconscious of humanity, as stated by smart guys Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. Technology will only help to make them… shinier.

So, as we push forward in a consumerist paradise of televisions larger than my San Francisco apartment walls and 3-D technology that doesn’t require glasses, I pose a question to you:

What will the future of television look like?

Comment below and maybe you can be cited for predicting something cool 24 years from now…