Prince of Persia is actually pretty good!

Professor Smarmiarty · 06-02-2010, 03:49 AM

You are missing a key element of the ride and that is that the ride is staffed with puppets. We don't really have the art of puppet theatre in the West but it is still an important art in Eastern Europe in particular and the theatre there brings up an important point about puppets.
Puppets are very uncanny valley, combined human features with stiff roboticness, an unease by the fact that they are so shiney, so perfect, so unhuman. To mitigate this when watching puppet shows we infuse something of ourselves into the puppets, some essence of who we are and what we expect to see. Thus how you interpret the ride comes down to your own preconceptions of the ride. If you come onto the ride (or the movie intriguingly) just looking for a fun-filled romp through the world of comical pirates that is what you get, if you're looking for a deep social commentary on the role of literature/the arts on our perception of the removed past then that is what you'll get.

06-02-2010, 03:49 AM	#25
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	You are missing a key element of the ride and that is that the ride is staffed with puppets. We don't really have the art of puppet theatre in the West but it is still an important art in Eastern Europe in particular and the theatre there brings up an important point about puppets. Puppets are very uncanny valley, combined human features with stiff roboticness, an unease by the fact that they are so shiney, so perfect, so unhuman. To mitigate this when watching puppet shows we infuse something of ourselves into the puppets, some essence of who we are and what we expect to see. Thus how you interpret the ride comes down to your own preconceptions of the ride. If you come onto the ride (or the movie intriguingly) just looking for a fun-filled romp through the world of comical pirates that is what you get, if you're looking for a deep social commentary on the role of literature/the arts on our perception of the removed past then that is what you'll get.