Greetings All, Shardvixen Here;
So I really have a hard time with anyone who is a snob. I don't like people treating me and others like we are stupid because we didn't know some "now" movie was a remake of some "then" movie classic or in most cases not classic because only a few people know of it.
This can be said of anything. Maybe it is just me and I meet those kind of people who status and attitude is "What do you mean you didn't know....every body with a brain cell in their head knows....duh?" The internet has increased this population of beings because now they can look up little know facts and throw them at you like paper wads.
I mean if you think about how many books there are in the world, how am I suppose to know them all or even just a few. Here if you want to know, to share at some dinner party:
http://mashable.com/2010/08/05/number-of-books-in-the-world/#6a_9m0glXEq0
Depending on how fast one read, I can read about a three hundred page book in in a day, I guess you could spend your life time reading them though I don't think they are all in English, so I couldn't read them all unless I learn the language they were written in. So asking me if I knew that the movie "I am Legend" was based on a book by Richard Matheson published in 1954. I wasn't born in 1954 and for some strange reason, I am thinking because it was about vampires and I am not a real big fan of vampires especially when I was younger, this book never came within my reading lists.
After the movie came out, some dude who felt women couldn't be nerds or geeks, accosted me about my credentials on being a nerd. I never really called myself that because when I was in school (high school) I was more of a stoner chick ( smoked a lot of pot at the time) and then when I stopped smoking pot in the early 80s due to an allergy reaction to THC, I just became a weird, punk, rocker, hippy, funky chick who like Sci Fi, and Fantasy books, games and movies along with my comic books. So this guy way later in my life at a party where it was mix of geek, freaks and way out their crazy people I hung out with to do Halloween parties and Ren Fairs was talking about vampires like he was the expert on them. I was not really listening until another person brought up the movie "I am Legend" and they all said how bad it was. I, being me, had to say" Wow, I really like the movie, for a zombie/vampire movie." to which he said " I would have figure so.( in a voice that stated I was too stupid to have an opinion.
To me, those are fighting words. I knew I would end up looking the fool(which is what I was at all Ren Fairs) but No one gets to snub me. I don't know everything (well in my religion we all know everything but we block it because it would be to mind blowing to have in our little reality) but I know what i like and why I like it AND I AM NOT STUPID. I am Miss Oblivious sometimes and a fool and I miss the obvious but for the most part I can hold my own in understanding things. So I said " I like entertaining movies and it was entertaining. I could believe it could happen and that is all I need in a good, fun movie." His face held contempt as he looked me up and down and then started a lecture. He was going to lecture me on the movie, my opinions and my being female.
Asshole said" See this is why women don't understand these kind of movies. Did you know it was a book by Richard Matheson? " well he got there. I didn't know who Richard Matheson was which was the mistake from his point.And he won the great debate and I looked the fool.
i don't really mind looking the fool but I think if you have the information share but he didn't. So the next day I researched Richard Matheson.
I am amazed that I missed this author. He had written quite a few books which became movies and some of the movies I really liked. So I learn many of his short stories became Twilight Zone episodes for TV.
The thing about "I am Legend" is it was made into a movie three times before the Will Smith version. I had seen the Vincent Price version as a kid but never knew that it was the book in movie form. You watch that one on Youtube if you want to see it. It is a bit long and has a Walking Dead feeling to it even though the creatures are suppose to be vampires. I had also seen The Omega Man release in 1971 ( though I didn't see it as a new release). But again I didn't know it was written as a book first.
I really didn't get into finding out if movies came from books until much later in my life because so many of my favorite books in the 1990s were becoming movies. Richard Matheson wrote these books which became movies that I have seen; The Shrinking man- I saw the movie as a kid, Stirs of Echo which became a movie with Kevin Bacon, Hell House, Bid Time Return which inspired the movie "SomeWhere in Time" with Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour in 1980,( saw this as well later on VHS), What Dreams may Come, I also saw this one on VHS and had my own copy.
You can go here to see what else he wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson
I saw the dickwad again at a later time and he mistakenly tried to insult me over comic books. His mistake. I happen to have a lot of the books he was talk about and I was able to hold my own with that subject. So he went back to books and science but I was done talking to him. It wasn't about him being right or his opinion, it was he wanted to be mean to me because I was (his words) an ugly woman who liked things only guys should like but he understood because I was ugly and old. By the time he got those last insulting words out, I was done with him.
I can be a woman who likes what I like. I love to learn new stuff so if you have tidbits of information about things I like, I want to know about but if you treat me like I am stupid because I don't know about it then I don't want to learn from you. The one of the things I have learned in my life is, some people need to feel powerful by treating others like they have no power. Same goes for intelligence. Some people need to feel intelligent by treating others like they are lacking intelligence. Since I relaly didn't care what this dummy though, I was willing to let it go. Con artist will sometimes treat you this way to scam you, so beware. You can know something that no one else knows but if you can't share it, then what is the use of having it.
I am sure there are a lot of trolls out there who try to play the "I am smarter, prettier, more popular and on and on " than you, but just being happy about who you are and what you have to offer is the best any of us can do and helping others learn to do the same will make this a better world in the long run.
I am outta here. See you on the flip side. Peace.
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