Once work leaves the hands of an author, the author no longer controls the narrative, or how the narrative is interpreted.
This sentence being upvoted on Lemmy of all places is hypocritical. I don’t fully disagree with it, but people’s interpretation of art can definitely be wrong. People interpreting fallout as anti capitalist could be wrong if the author says so. This is just being upvoted because it suits Lemmy’s political views in general.
If someone interprets the Mona Lisa as an alien; that’s wrong. Or is it?
Bit more realistic; why did nobody say “the interpretation isn’t up to the author” when Trump decided to use Rage Against the Machine at his rally? Was that also not wrong because a large group of people interpreted the narrative differently than the author? Ofcourse they were wrong.
Silent Hill 2 is one of the best games ever made. You can’t live up to that, and this game won’t. When they recreated that shot where James looks in the mirror in the very first trailer and gave him a big frowny face, that’s all I needed to know. They’re not going to capture what made the first game a masterpiece.
It was on sale for 9,99 just a few weeks ago.