According to "Your Name review – a beautiful out-of-body experience", Mark Kermode said Your Name has been popular in Japan for months. This movie is a story of switching soul between a high-school girl named "Mitsuha", who live in urban area and want to become a boy, and a young man named "Taki", whose quite popular in Tokyo. Mark Kermode said that teenager will find this movie as a love story like "Romeo + Juliet"; while, older viewers will delight that old fashion arts have become more modern in 21st-century because this move is a combination of "the ancient and modern" like "Treasure the experience.”
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My response
I saw this movie this month after I came back from Chiang Mai. At first, I didn't realise that it's a romantic movie, I went there because my boyfriends wanted to see. He said that this is a great movie; however, I don't think so.
The day after we watched this movie, the amazing things happened. I can bought a copy version of this movie through DVD which exactly the same as I watched. This is one kind of crime that many people didn't realised. They just think that this is a normal things that everyone do may be because they don't have any effect from this action.
This action can effected with many things such as sales of the company or reputation of the country.
If many people think that this is a normal things, in the long term no one will want to create new things. They will wait to copy other people's idea which is hard for Thailand to grow as a developing country in the future.
A question come up in my mind is that how can companies prevent this action and make a long term profit in the future? This is a serious question for companies because it's easily for companies to bankrupt, if they don't have solutions for this problem.
Etude is a Japanese brand that used to sell cosmetics in Thailand and bankrupt in the next few years because Japan is not far from Thailand. That's why many people bought Etude's product from Japan and resell it at a cheaper price in Thailand.
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Reference
- Kermode, M. (2016, November 20). Your Name review – a beautiful out-of-body experience. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/20/your-name-review-makoto-shinkai
I wasn't particularly interested in Ae's aummary, although now that I think about it more, I do like the idea that old stories and other cultural elements be retold. This keeps them alive for new generations and often improves them. Our ancestors might have made a good start, but we should be able to build on that to make something even better. I think that's one reason Homer's Iliad is so great in the version we have had for the past 2,500 years - it was created and recreated over a period of centuries before it was finally written down, after which it became set. But we can't expect modern people to learn ancient Greek just so that they can enjoy a great piece of literature.
ReplyDeleteBut I was much more interested in Ae's response, which clearly connects with ideas in Ariely, and then gives some explanation of the consequences of stealing from artistic and other creators by buying pirated copies of their work. I agree with Ae that this stealing is wrong: if we value something, we should pay the creator who has given us the pleasure or use of the film, DVD, software, music of whatever.
I think it's OK, as do both the law and creators, to copy a bit for fair use, for example, I've just uploaded a few screen shots of Swan's Practical English Usage, but I decided against uploading all of the sections cited in the quiz we did yesterday. It's reasonable to show what is in Swan's work, but it's too much to copy and paste a whole series of sections. It's a great reference grammar, and the people who worked to create it for us to use deserve to be paid for their efforts, not to have them stolen by eager students and teachers criminally copying and sharing the work. As Ae says, that sort of crime is deadly to creativity - artists, writers and others have to live, and they should be paid for their work by the audiences to benefit from it.
The essential use of "quotation marks" when we copy and paste from a source is related, but slightly different. Writers don't object to reviewers and and others copying and pasting short quotations, but if we pretend that the words are our own, we are thieves, and that sort of dishonesty, plagiarism, is the worst crime for any university, at least for any good university - the garbage places might not be strict about such criminal behaviour.
In fact, universities do not, and should not, care too much about things like murder, rape and so on, which are irrelevant to academic competence, but the crime of plagiarism is never acceptable to good universities or good publications. PhDs and others likely commit murder, rape, theft and other crimes at similar rates to others, and they certainly end up in prisons. This does not affect their degrees. But when a university discovers plagiarism, sometimes years later, it cancels the degree. This is more than embarrassing, as a former German Defence Minister discovered in 2011 (see "Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg", Wikipedia, 2016)
Remember: If you copy and paste, you must always, always, always put the copied and pasted text in "quotation marks". (Or if it's a quotation longer than 40 words, make it a block of indented text.)
DeleteI don't think it is a crime and also the "your name" like "Romeo+Juliet". Many years ago, I have watched "Romeo+Juliet" that is a japan animation series. There changes a lot of plot story but there keep the concept of original story. Also, fashion in "Romeo+Juliet" is not more modern, it is still old fashion. On the other hand, "Your Name" is relevant to japan traditional culture and destiny ("Unmei no akai ito" or 'Red string of fate').
ReplyDeleteAlthough Ae's view is quite interesting, I don't agree with her idea. Pirating is indeed a crime. Imagine we don't have any pirating in Thailand. What kind of country will it be. There will be inequality in the society. All computers have to be installed with authentic windows and offices. The poor wouldn't have the chance to use the computer perhaps. they wouldn't have a chance to see any movie. How could people with average salary pay around two hundred to see movies. The literacy rate in Thailand might be lower than nowadays.
ReplyDeleteIn your example the company is the middleman and if we cut the middleman out of the economic system the society is supposed to be better off because there would be less transaction cost, increasing goods and services in the society. Although doing business is harder, this way the economy will be much more efficient and smaller dead weigh loss.
Will the company make more profit without the pirate? Not necessarily. The reason is simple. If I hadn't had access to free movies online I would have not watched them at all. I think the strategy in China might be more effective. Movies in China are mostly free. They profits by the advertisement. I think that's the way producers should do to survive. In my view, it's the duty of the business to satisfy the customers and to earn profits out of our satisfaction. Businesses have to adjust to the change. The hope that customers will go back to what they were are not really realistic.
Actually I don't really care if we don't have any good movies in the future. Well, good movies are mostly not for commercial goals. Movies from Europe are much better than from the US anyway. Another reason that I don't care if the industry were to die is because we already have tons of good movies in the market. I could watch these movies incessantly until the end of my life without additional movies. Perhaps I don't really like watching movies. I feel that it's a waste of my time and money.
I also watched this movie 3 weeks ago. My friend ask me to watch this movie. She told me that she have seen the movie review. Many people said that it was a good movie and give the score 10 out of 10. However,I feel i'm not into the movie. it may be to don't like animation movie.
ReplyDeleteWhen I started to read the first paragraph of your response. I was wondered P'Ae how many boyfriends do you have? lol I'm kidding.
ReplyDeleteI've already watched "Your name". At first, I got no interested on this movie but after hearing that this anime movie made a well rank in Japan high-grossing movie I wondered why so I find out by watching it.
I must say I really like soundtrack in the movie especially, the ending song. It fits the movie so much.
To answer your question, "How can companies prevent this action and make a long term profit in the future?", I went to the seminar that talked about being a screenwriter and director and I met P'เก้ง from GDH and he told us that now movies don't make money from selling DVDs anymore, profit is now from https://www.gdh559shop.com/ by selling movie's collection like shirts. From my perspective, I think this problem can be solved by "Advertisement" more and more. But this will create another problem for a small company which only have a few budget to spend on advertising because they will mostly spend on creating movies.