People are not always convinced by the idea of Postmodernism because they do not understand the concepts of what makes something Postmodern and what is not. There are many different ideas to Postmodernism and reasons why people re create something. There are both Homage and Pastiche reasons for re creating something in film. When someone plays Homage to a film they are paying respcet to that film by copying or transfering something from that film into a new one. An example of this is the film 'The Artist' which is based on the silent films from the 1950s. A Pastiche is when something is taken or copied from a previous film and put into a new film by taking the mick out of an already existing scene to create humour for another film. An example of a film using this would be the Austin Powers film as these are a mock of the famous Bond films.
A quote that is often misunderstood by people is that 'nothing has an answer'. If you do not consider things as postmodern, this quote will not mean anything to you. This is the idea nothing is an original idea and anything from film to music cannot be traced back to an original route, suggesting everything has already been done and copied before. There is a also the idea that there 'is no centre'. This is when the centre of where an idea came from is always moving as we find something else we can link something we consider to be new from.
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