Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused
, started by Anfauglith on May 20th 2012 at 5:25:07 AM
Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused, started by WaxingName on Apr 21st 2014 at 9:12:03 PM
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Surprisingly, the film North, uses this. Apparently, director Rob Reiner wanted to make a touching fable that would be his very own Wizard of Oz. What he failed to realize is that he made his own touching fable seven years before.
Granted, he may have considered it more of William Goldman's work. Just throwing out an idea as to how he could have wanting to go through with it.
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Page is getting a little long — should the real life and fiction subsections be split into separate pages? Also the 'This page is Trivia' disclaimer is confusing, since it only applies to real life examples. If the text can't be modified to say this does allow in-universe examples on a work's page, maybe we could remove it and just put a disclaimer in bold noting the distinction at the top of the description?
The Homicide: Life On the Street example looks like a misplaced Needs More Love entry. If it does count, could someone who's actually seen the show fix it up a bit? I would, but I don't know anything about the series except the title.
I hate bringing this up, but can we please remove "Y'know what? Us." from real life examples? Please? It's not that I don't think TV Tropes is art, but it seems needlessly self-congratulatory, like "Oh yeah, we're so damn selfless and awesome". I'm also pretty sure that no everyone here is doing it for the art, that a lot of people just do it because they're bored, or think they have something funny or intersting to point out.
Also, I got the impression that TV Tropes had something of an "invisible hand" policy. No one arguing with eachother, no one using real-life examples on the main page, etc., like the pages just magically edited and updated themselves. I've seen several pages where Tropers have said used TV tropers as examples, and it makes me uncomfortable.
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Art is subjective. Some see this as art.
Do you know what people want the most? Something somebody else has.
This is all baseless speculation and an excuse to Gush About Creators You Like.
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No. There are plenty of tropes that are like this but negative. They have standards and so does this page.
You got some dirt on you. Here's some more!
Explain your reasons. The definition looks value-neutral to me.
See you in the discussion pages.
How about changing the trope's name to "Art For Art's Sake"? A friend told me that artists tend to use that phrase, quite a bit.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Cap the Gushing
, started by WaxingName on Aug 16th 2011 at 4:11:22 AM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman