As example, Shakespeare improved upon the dramatic archetypes of Greek tragedies, and the modern masters (Ibsen, Shaw, O’Neill) improved on Shakespeare’s often one-dimensional characters and fleshed them out, and set them in ‘real’ situations, rather than the soap operatic melodramas Shakespeare could rarely transcend. It is quality, and quality alone, that is the important thing in any work of art, because that is a thing that is not ground to the subjective biases of individuals nor masses, not originality nor sentiment. And in these areas that define what makes a work of art work greatly, Alex Proyas’s film Dark City transcends to that rarest circle, greatness, even as, within the limits of its genre it stands alone... nonpareil.
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
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