Today the film is notable mostly for its infamous casting of Sofia Coppola as Al Pacino's daughter, which was greeted by howls of nepotism and critical derision. Francis Ford Coppola thought two films were enough, but financial hardships from the box office failure of One From the Heart finally caused him to accept Paramount's offer for a third film. This third installment of the Corleone crime family saga came sixteen years after The Godfather in 1972 and The Godfather part II in 1974. To wit, here are a few notable examples from over the years. If history is any indication, Jurassic World and The Best Man Holiday probably won't have a problem readjusting to the current box office landscape. Sometimes it's because the star or director needs a hit, sometimes it's because the studio is lacking in franchises, sometimes it's just because a changing demographic landscape has made a certain franchise more appealing. These are additional installments, often fourth installments but sometimes not, that are produced so long after the theoretical end of a franchise that they feel more like reunions than actual organic installments. Debuting fourteen years after The Best Man, this one even reunites pretty much the entire original cast and brings back director Malcolm Lee. The same arguably applies for this weekend's lone new release, The Best Man Holiday. It's just one in an ever-expanding line of what I like to call 'class reunion' sequels. Whether or not the world needs another Jurassic Park adventure, we're getting one. Entitled Jurassic World, shot in 3D and directed by Safety Not Guaranteed's Colin Trevorrow, this will be the first Jurassic Park film in just under fourteen years. * Ann Macbeth is a futurist and principal of Annimac Consultants.When the fourth Jurassic Park film, which will allegedly star Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and presumably one or two members of the original cast in small roles, arrives in theaters on June 12th, 2015, there will be teenagers aplenty who will not have even been born when the last entry hit theaters. Old habits may die hard now they must die quickly. You might have been saddened by the bullyboy practices, the schoolyard tradeoffs, and the very, very low moral level of the whole process.Īnd the mainstream media apparently blocked attempts by its journalists to present an honest and open debate on the PCEC – their stories were not printed. Had you heard those discussions, you may have been embarrassed for the participants by their inept ability to look at the big picture and make the wisest decisions for the good of all. Their jurassic habits say we do not need to know what is going on even though it is our $100m they are spending.Īmazingly, the so-called privileged information leaks out the attitude shift obviously includes workers for those old habit government and media heavies. We grew more aware, more sophisticated in our seeing and thinking, and more demanding that our delegated authorities – government and media – be more responsible in reflecting our evolving awareness, our growing sophistication, our changing values.īut the old habits of being the boss and telling us what is best for us – those jurassic habits – continue.Ī current example of a jurassic habit is the Perth Convention and Entertainment Centre.īehind closed doors, our government officers and the big developers are fighting like kids in the sandbox over the proposed PCEC. Us good little Vegemite citizens travelled more, stayed in education longer, consumed more foreign TV, films, music and science. Until the late 70s and early 80s when the pace of life stepped up, technology expanded our operating arena, and all those foreign nations became mere neighbours in our global village. This system worked rather well for the 200 years of settled history. We, in turn, would be good little Vegemite citizens working diligently Monday to Friday, nine to five, to pay our taxes, buy a home in the ’burbs, raise our kids to love football and cricket, and vote in all elections – content to let the big guys get on with the bigger stuff. The deal was that these institutions would make the wisest decisions about the big stuff of life, like education, health, justice, and business development, and what we needed to hear about them, for the good of us all. Our State Government and our mainstream media gained the habit of unbridled power through the traditional social contract whereby the citizens of WA happily delegated the authority and responsibilities for governance and for the dissemination of information to these large and powerful institutions. Our mainstream government and our mainstream media are living proof of John Dryden’s words, written in the late 1600s. WE first make our habits, then our habits make us.
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