09-15-2004, 01:32 PM
I've been to the Toronto Film Festival a few times now and a number of smaller ones back when I was studying film production and had a great time at all of them. I know there are events for the elite but for the most part it's a bunch of movie fan boys who pick apart a movie down to the smallest detail over a case of beer after they've seen it. The funny thing is how many faults we could find in even our favourite movies. It didn't mean we enjoyed them any less... just that we saw where small improvements could have been made here and there.
The point is that there are conventions for people of all sorts of hobbies. You can see sports conventions that cover everything from hunters to football players and you can go to boating conventions and motorcycle conventions and book conventions... all of these are available for very broad audiences that get segregated by individual tastes once in the actual convention. For the bikers you might have a Harley section in one corner, a custom bike section in another corner, English bikes somewhere else and rice rockets taking over the remaining space.
I agree that "anime" is a HUGE blanket to throw around but it does give a great place for people to get together and find out about other sub categories within a genre. It was at an anime convention that I first found out about Cowboy Bebop... it was amazing to be packed into a room with all those people gasping and laughing at the same time. Many of them I didn't want to get to close to but there was still a feeling of us being a group and being priveledged enough to be some of the first people to experience a show like that.
The point is that there are conventions for people of all sorts of hobbies. You can see sports conventions that cover everything from hunters to football players and you can go to boating conventions and motorcycle conventions and book conventions... all of these are available for very broad audiences that get segregated by individual tastes once in the actual convention. For the bikers you might have a Harley section in one corner, a custom bike section in another corner, English bikes somewhere else and rice rockets taking over the remaining space.
I agree that "anime" is a HUGE blanket to throw around but it does give a great place for people to get together and find out about other sub categories within a genre. It was at an anime convention that I first found out about Cowboy Bebop... it was amazing to be packed into a room with all those people gasping and laughing at the same time. Many of them I didn't want to get to close to but there was still a feeling of us being a group and being priveledged enough to be some of the first people to experience a show like that.
Gullible isn't in the dictionary.