It’s taken a while for me to post this, but I can say I was excited when we had this lecture, because it was finally something I could understand and follow without a confused look on my face.
I think intertextuality means that nothing is really original, whatever idea we come up with, we have drawn ideas from previous experiences or things we have seen or heard. This is sometimes done unconsciously.
It is something I’ve always known about but I never really paid much attention to it while watching TV, watching the clips in the lecture of the Planet of the Apes [1968 and 2000 versions] and Madagascar, the quote,
‘Damn you damn you all to heck!!’
Really opened my eyes to how obvious intertextuality is in most of the things I’ve seen. To be honest I myself have used that phrase without out knowing the origin.
Nothing is new!!
I think it would take someone a great deal of thought to come up with something that has never been touched on, maybe if we get newborns to give us ideas, then we might be able to create something new, but even then when they are in the womb they can hear and almost connect with what is happening in the outside world, also things that their mother go through while being pregnant, happen to them as well, so in a sense they are kind of ‘brainwashed’ themselves.
It’s an ongoing cycle.
Nothing is original!!
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