Each time I watch a movie that's doing good numbers in the box office, I pause to rethink the meaning of the word "Value".
My brain thinks, after all, this is a just a story. Avatar have grossed $2,847,246,203 since 2009. You'd agree with me that such a figure is an obscene amount of return for a figment of somebody's imagination.
Today, I watched the Third Episode of Marvels' What If and I couldn't stop asking myself what exactly is meaning of the word value? What defines value? What constitutes as value? How many layers of economic value can be extracted from a well accepted product/service?
"What If" is a series based on Marvel's highly successful cinematic universe but this time around the series explores what would have happened if certain events had gone other way. Like what would have happened if the Avengers were killed before they were assembled. It's such an amazing work of art.
Back to my question, "What defines value?"
To be honest, i'm tempted to think maybe I'm asking the wrong questions. Perhaps i'm observing outliers? Or am being too simplistic?
Perhaps i'm being too simplistic because a movie is not actually just a story. A movie is actually an experience. Then if it's ongoing universe / series, previous movies compounds the experience e.g Avengers Endgame.
Am I observing outliers? No I don't think so, they are several non-marvel movies that are doing wild numbers.
Or perhaps the catch is not the movie, it's our innate desire to be distracted or entertained.
My brain thinks, after all, this is a just a story. Avatar have grossed $2,847,246,203 since 2009. You'd agree with me that such a figure is an obscene amount of return for a figment of somebody's imagination.
Today, I watched the Third Episode of Marvels' What If and I couldn't stop asking myself what exactly is meaning of the word value? What defines value? What constitutes as value? How many layers of economic value can be extracted from a well accepted product/service?
"What If" is a series based on Marvel's highly successful cinematic universe but this time around the series explores what would have happened if certain events had gone other way. Like what would have happened if the Avengers were killed before they were assembled. It's such an amazing work of art.
Back to my question, "What defines value?"
To be honest, i'm tempted to think maybe I'm asking the wrong questions. Perhaps i'm observing outliers? Or am being too simplistic?
Perhaps i'm being too simplistic because a movie is not actually just a story. A movie is actually an experience. Then if it's ongoing universe / series, previous movies compounds the experience e.g Avengers Endgame.
Am I observing outliers? No I don't think so, they are several non-marvel movies that are doing wild numbers.
Or perhaps the catch is not the movie, it's our innate desire to be distracted or entertained.
I think here you're talking about
And in that case i think economic value pertains to how much time/energy someone is willing to sacrifice for something.
In the case of