Rejuvenating Old Ideas in a New Way

For years artists of all kinds from filmmakers. to photographers have been trying different ways to bring the past into the present, without (and excuse my attitude) making it dull.  You see it in all the comics turned films and films updating their older ancestors.  One such example would be Tron.  The  first edition would release in 1980 and become an instant hit and cult classic for years to follow.  However like every thing else in this world, it lost its new cinema shine, like any other art it met its "shelf life" limit.  As time went on, those who knew about Tron and how revolutionary it was would still ramble occasionally on  about it while the majority of the population and up and rising teenagers would by now have either forgotten about it or didn't know of it.

 

       [Left - Tron 1982]                                                            [Right - Tron: Legacy 2010]

Then in 2010, nearly three decades later a american movie producer sought to inspire the new generation with the same kind of electrifying feeling he had experienced in the 1980s.  As a result, Tron: Legacy was born.  Although the original concept was there, this director took the story of Tron and made it to appeal to the current generation.  Like any other artist, this one saw a chance to make something truly remarkable from a old idea and made it new again.

This idea has been around for years, and a lot of current day use this technique to create unique and irreplaceable pieces.  Many use traditional techniques to achieve the effect of the old style, like photographers using Polaroid or Holga camers, while others use Photoshop to create the same style as their antique counterparts.

In time will our generation be so outdated that years from now that people have to do what we do to consider something antiqued? Or have we reached a point of succession where everything physically possible for art has been achieved thus far, besides the finer aspects?  Time will only tell, but no matter what we will all think of the past and present and we will still always try to hold onto it.  For better or worse the past is here to stay in the arts.

Sources: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Legacy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron#Origins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distressing