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Originally Posted by Kipi  By those definitions, if we were talking about art (which, in some way movies and games could be counted as), wouldn't influence to large population in a way that that population forms a group of fans turn it to good art? Or at least mediocre? As I understood from that thread (made only quick overall look on it, reading it fully with better time) and as my mind tells me, even though not everybody likes something, if the thing, in this case movie, affect positively to population it can be claimed to be "good"? |
It's nearly 4 am here as you know, so I'm not in a better shape than you and I may be able to give a better answer tomorrow, but anyway: what I meant in the other threat was not that popularity, ie how many likes something is a good measure of the quality of art, what I meant was that "importance", impact, could be used as a measure since I think impact on society is one of the functions of art. So a computer game that has a large fan-base who like a movie based on their game because they like the game, is not what I mean because the movie does not affect them in a way that makes them to out and change the course of history.
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