Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 72

{An incredibly long silence they’re all pretty much the
follows, in which JJ sits, look- same. Look at mythology,
ing down at the floor in con- we’re still basing stories off of
centration, that today. Look at fucking
chewing
on
a
thought. Nabokov sits quietly,
watching him. His hands are
folded on the table neatly. Fi-
nally, JJ looks up]
JJ: {Hesitates for a moment}
Again, Mr. Nabokov, I say this
with all due respect, but… is-
n’t the goal of telling stories
to try and create new things?
Won’t
people
see
right
through the film if we just…
remake the original movies?
N: {Sighs} Mr. Abrams, all that
the history of storytelling has
ever told us is that people like
retreads. Some retreads are
overt, and others are less so.
Look at world religions
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