History Quotes / MagnumOpusDissonance

->'''[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Milo]]:''' If they're so great, how come they're not tearing up the charts, babe?\\
'''Rex:''' Because you never play them, ''babe''. You suck.
-->-- '''''Film/{{Airheads}}'''''

->''I actually consider [[Fanfic/TheWritingOnTheWall this]] my best work so far, but everyone rants and raves about "Biblical Monsters" instead. Ah well.''
-->--'''Horse Voice''' in [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/42409/1/the-writing-on-the-wall/the-writing-on-the-wall#comment/2674271 this reply]]

->''The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything [[TallPoppySyndrome except genius.]]''
-->--'''Creator/OscarWilde'''

->''I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.''
-->--'''Jerry Wexler'''

->'''QT:''' It usually has to do with ''one'' film. I mean, like, you see them growing, or building, or whatever, and they do one film, and usually it's a film that they're very personal about, that they care a lot about, and not only does it not do well, it's not recognized. Okay, now maybe they did a bad job with it, or maybe they did a terrific job with it, all right? But they get nothing for it. They get slapped in the face for it. And you could tell that the film had a real personal feeling to them.\\
'''Rose:''' Yeah. They really had put it out on the table.\\
'''QT:''' They really put it out on the table. And then, from that point on, you can just see all of a sudden [[ArtistDisillusionment they started doing star vehicles.]]
-->-- '''Charlie Rose''', 1996 interview with Creator/QuentinTarantino

->''There are indeed. And the game that comes most to mind when I say that is ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts Covenant''... I think it was released alongside a ''Franchise/{{Final Fantasy}}'', and you literally couldn't have timed the thing worse if you wanted to. So yeah, I wish fans could have seen that one. And it got good reviews -- everyone said it was great, one magazine said it was the best RPG of the year or something. It was critically acclaimed. It was by a real dark horse Japanese company too, some company called Sacanoth did it. And I know those guys worked their brains off too. This represented so much, it had so much effort. That's the remarkable thing about games -- the good ones, the creators put so much effort, so much of their hearts into it, and they're not recognised. The industry is so rife with irony, the whole situation.''
-->--'''[[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/jb/jb.htm#army Jeremy Blaustein]]''', on whether there are games besides ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' he'd rather be known for

!!!Reviews
->''Hollywood gets perverse about situations like that. It understands very well why a man might spend a year making a movie that a 13-year-old would disdain as trash. But if a man blessed with great success tries to do something really wonderful, [[TallPoppySyndrome there is a tendency to slap him down.]] It is just too much of an affront to all the compromises and little ethical deaths that happen every day all over town.''
-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert''' on ''Film/TheColorPurple''

->''[[Creator/SylvesterStallone Stallone]] does pretty well for himself, playing a partially deaf small town sheriff, holding his own against Creator/HarveyKeitel and Creator/RobertDeNiro of all people. The fact that he matches two of the best actors working today punch for punch without getting blown off the screen is pretty remarkable. Damn shame the film failed.''
-->--'''Website/TheAgonyBooth''' [[http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Arnold_vs_Sly_King_of_the_Action_Heroes.aspx?Page=2 on]] ''Film/CopLand''

->''Are you telling me this is how good it could have been since [[Creator/StevenMoffat he]] took over? ...It's a bold move to show the Doctor this afraid and this menaced by his personal demons since he is our constant companion in this show and he is the one that the kiddies latch onto for comfort. Goodness knows what they made of this existential nightmare--I can imagine they were either sitting there in a cold sweat or yawning throughout. Funnily enough this is one of those stories that I [[HypocrisyNod probably won't revisit too often.]]''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/heaven-sent-written-by-steven-moffat.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent}} "Heaven Sent"]]

->''Creator/ChrisCarter had created ''Series/Millennium1996'', and it was clearly a show that meant a lot to him. While ''Series/TheXFiles'' was populist and accessible, ''Millennium'' always felt like more of an auteur project. It was solemn, abstract, contemplative. There is a sense that he was quite disappointed when his attention was diverted away from the show in its second year. Carter has talked time and time again about how he created ''Millennium'' as an examination of evil in the world.''
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/07/30/millennium-seven-and-one-review/ Darren Mooney]]'''

->''When I imagine being in his position, I think of years of my life being consumed by one massive, demanding project after another, each with enormous pressure both financially and critically, with his name/reputation under the gun constantly. These projects are his life, and their reputation is his legacy. ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty MGS2]]'' had raised a very troubling question about whether [[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]] was a fraud intellectual who 'doesn’t know what people want', and he still feels [[OldShame that deep sting of mockery]] to this day.''
-->--'''Terry Wolf''', [[http://metagearsolid.org/2013/12/only-for-revenge/ "Only For Revenge"]]

->''There are many indie platformers more well known than ''VideoGame/EternalDaughter'' -- and that's a real shame because there aren't many indie platformers as good as ''Eternal Daughter''. Despite its relative popularity in the early 2000s (a few years before independently made games caught the attention of mainstream audiences), the game is mostly forgotten nowadays. What could have been the American equivalent of ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' (in fact, Eternal Daughter shares a few similarities with Studio Pixel's masterpiece) has instead faded into obscurity.''
-->--'''[[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/eternaldaughter/eternaldaughter.htm Maciej Miszczyk]]''', ''Website/HardcoreGaming101''

->''Creator/ChrisCarter had created ''{{Series/Millennium}}'', and it was clearly a show that meant a lot to him. While ''Series/TheXFiles'' was populist and accessible, ''Millennium'' always felt like more of an auteur project. It was solemn, abstract, contemplative. There is a sense that he was quite disappointed when his attention was diverted away from the show in its second year. Carter has talked time and time again about how he created ''Millennium'' as an examination of evil in the world.''

->The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything [[TallPoppySyndrome except genius.]]

->I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.

->Readers choose which books and stories they'll care about most and remember best, and if I am remembered only for [[Literature/EndersGame a novel I wrote in 1984]], and not for the better books I wrote after that, I'm not going to complain: Writers are lucky if readers care about and remember any of their works, and a writer is a fool if he criticizes his readers for liking the wrong book.

-->-- '''''Charlie Rose''''', 1996 interview with Creator/QuentinTarantino

->There are indeed. And the game that comes most to mind when I say that is ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts Covenant''... I think it was released alongside a ''Franchise/{{Final Fantasy}}'', and you literally couldn't have timed the thing worse if you wanted to. So yeah, I wish fans could have seen that one. And it got good reviews -- everyone said it was great, one magazine said it was the best RPG of the year or something. It was critically acclaimed. It was by a real dark horse Japanese company too, some company called Sacanoth did it. And I know those guys worked their brains off too. This represented so much, it had so much effort. That's the remarkable thing about games -- the good ones, the creators put so much effort, so much of their hearts into it, and they're not recognised. The industry is so rife with irony, the whole situation.

->The worse it is, the better it sells.

->Hollywood gets perverse about situations like that. It understands very well why a man might spend a year making a movie that a 13-year-old would disdain as trash. But if a man blessed with great success tries to do something really wonderful, [[TallPoppySyndrome there is a tendency to slap him down.]] It is just too much of an affront to all the compromises and little ethical deaths that happen every day all over town.

->[[Creator/SylvesterStallone Stallone]] does pretty well for himself, playing a partially deaf small town sheriff, holding his own against Creator/HarveyKeitel and Creator/RobertDeNiro of all people. The fact that he matches two of the best actors working today punch for punch without getting blown off the screen is pretty remarkable. Damn shame the film failed.
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' [[http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Arnold_vs_Sly_King_of_the_Action_Heroes.aspx?Page=2 on]] ''Film/CopLand''

->Are you telling me this is how good it could have been since [[Creator/StevenMoffat he]] took over? ...It's a bold move to show the Doctor this afraid and this menaced by his personal demons since he is our constant companion in this show and he is the one that the kiddies latch onto for comfort. Goodness knows what they made of this existential nightmare--I can imagine they were either sitting there in a cold sweat or yawning throughout. Funnily enough this is one of those stories that I [[HypocrisyNod probably won't revisit too often.]]

->Creator/ChrisCarter had created ''{{Series/Millennium}}'', and it was clearly a show that meant a lot to him. While ''Series/TheXFiles'' was populist and accessible, ''Millennium'' always felt like more of an auteur project. It was solemn, abstract, contemplative. There is a sense that he was quite disappointed when his attention was diverted away from the show in its second year. Carter has talked time and time again about how he created ''Millennium'' as an examination of evil in the world.

->When I imagine being in his position, I think of years of my life being consumed by one massive, demanding project after another, each with enormous pressure both financially and critically, with his name/reputation under the gun constantly. These projects are his life, and their reputation is his legacy. ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty MGS2]]'' had raised a very troubling question about whether [[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]] was a fraud intellectual who 'doesn’t know what people want', and he still feels [[OldShame that deep sting of mockery]] to this day.

->There are many indie platformers more well known than ''VideoGame/EternalDaughter'' -- and that's a real shame because there aren't many indie platformers as good as ''Eternal Daughter''. Despite its relative popularity in the early 2000s (a few years before independently made games caught the attention of mainstream audiences), the game is mostly forgotten nowadays. What could have been the American equivalent of ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' (in fact, Eternal Daughter shares a few similarities with Studio Pixel's masterpiece) has instead faded into obscurity.

->Stallone does pretty well for himself, playing a partially deaf small town sheriff, holding his own against Creator/HarveyKeitel and Creator/RobertDeNiro of all people. The fact that he matches two of the best actors working today punch for punch without getting blown off the screen is pretty remarkable. Damn shame the film failed.

->"You know, it's funny how wrong an artist can be about his own work. The one composition of [[Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Tchaikovsky's]] that he really detested was his '[[Theatre/TheNutcracker Nutcracker Suite]]', which is probably the most popular thing he ever wrote."
-->--'''Deems Taylor''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''

->''"You know, it's funny how...''wrong'' an artist can be about his own work. Now, the one composition of [[Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Tchaikovsky]]'s that he really detested was his ''[[Theatre/TheNutcracker Nutcracker Suite]],'' which is probably the most popular thing he ever wrote."''
-->-- '''Deems Taylor''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''

->''Poe believed himself '' [[{{Poetry}} a poet, and only a poet]], '' but circumstances led him to write [[HorrorLiterature short stories]], and [[DetectiveLiterature those short stories]], whose writing [[MoneyDearBoy he was resigned]] and that [[FallenOnHardTimesJob he had to face as occasional tasks]] are [[MagnumOpus his immortality.]]''

-->-- '''Deems Taylor''', ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}''

-->-- '''Creator/JorgeLuisBorges''': Creator/EdgarAllanPoe"

->''Poe believed himself a [[{{Poetry}} poet, and '' only a poet]], ''but circumstances led him to write [[HorrorLiterature short stories]], and [[DetectiveLiterature those short stories]], whose writing [[MoneyDearBoy he was resigned]] and that [[FallenOnHardTimesJob he had to face as occasional tasks]] are [[MagnumOpus his immortality.]]''

->''Poe believed himself a [[{{Poetry}} poet, and'' only a poet]], ''but circumstances led him to write [[HorrorLiterature short stories]], and [[DetectiveLiterature those short stories]], whose writing [[MoneyDearBoy he was resigned]] and that [[FallenOnHardTimesJob he had to face as occasional tasks]] are [[MagnumOpus his immortality.]]''

->''Poe believed himself a [[{{Poetry}} poet, only a poet]], but circumstances led him to write [[HorrorLiterature short stories]], and [[DetectiveLiterature those short stories]], whose writing [[MoneyDearBoy he was resigned]] and that [[FallenOnHardTimesJob he had to face as occasional tasks]] are [[MagnumOpus his immortality.]]''

->''Poe believed himself a [[{{Poetry}} poet, only a poet]], but circumstances led him to write [[HorrorLiterature short stories]], and [[DetectiveLiterature those short stories]], [[MoneyDearBoy whose writing was resigned]] and that [[FallenOnHardTimesJob he had to face as occasional tasks]] are [[MagnumOpus his immortality.]]''

->''Poe believed himself a poet, only a poet, but circumstances led him to write [[HorrorLiterature short stories]], and [[DetectiveLiterature those short stories]], [[MoneyDearBoy whose writing was resigned]] and that [[FallenOnHardTimesJob he had to face as occasional tasks]] are [[MagnumOpus his immortality.]]''
-->-- '''Creator/StephenKing''', afterward on "The Man in the Black Suit."

-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' [[http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Arnold_vs_Sly_King_of_the_Action_Heroes.aspx?Page=2 on]] ''Film/{{Copland}}''

->''I thought the finished product a rather humdrum folktale told in pedestrian language, certainly miles from he Hawthorne story I liked so much. When The New Yorker asked to publish it, I was shocked. When it won first prize in the O. Henry Best Short Story competition for 1996, I was convinced someone had made a mistake (that did not keep me from accepting the award, however). Reader response was generally positive, too. This story is proof that writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.''

->Stallone does pretty well for himself, playing a partially deaf small town sheriff, holding his own against Harvey Keitel and Robert [=DeNiro=] of all people. The fact that he matches two of the best actors working today punch for punch without getting blown off the screen is pretty remarkable. Damn shame the film failed.

->Chris Carter had created ''{{Series/Millennium}}'', and it was clearly a show that meant a lot to him. While ''Series/TheXFiles'' was populist and accessible, ''Millennium'' always felt like more of an auteur project. It was solemn, abstract, contemplative. There is a sense that he was quite disappointed when his attention was diverted away from the show in its second year. Carter has talked time and time again about how he created ''Millennium'' as an examination of evil in the world.

-->--'''[[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/eternaldaughter/eternaldaughter.htm Maciej Miszczyk]]'''

->As a result of demands placed on him by the BBC as well as his own desperate attempt at both salvaging the series and being able to retire comfortably, [[Creator/JohnNathanTurner (John) Nathan-Turner]] purged the entire ''Doctor Who'' production staff in 1987 and took a chance on a bunch of brash young upstarts led by new script editor Andrew Cartmel: A person who, when asked what he thought the purpose of ''Doctor Who'' was, gave the absolutely delightful answer 'to bring down the government'...What this all meant though was the show finally had something to prove again, and with an [[DreamTeam absolutely killer main cast]] comprising of Sylvester [=McCoy=], Bonnie Langford and Sophie Aldred, ''Doctor Who'' became, in my opinion at least, [[GrowingTheBeard the most intelligent, tight and exciting it had ever been]]. A shame nobody watched it: The Cartmel/[=McCoy=] era ended after only three years when the Classic Series was finally officially canceled in 1989.
-->--''[[http://soda-pop-art.blogspot.com/2013/11/an-introduction-to-classic-doctor-who.html Soda Pop Art]]'', "An Introduction to Classic ''Series/DoctorWho''"