{"id":5737,"date":"2022-11-08T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2022-11-08T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T16:38:45","slug":"op-ed-sharknado-was-the-last-great-literary-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/op-ed-sharknado-was-the-last-great-literary-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Sharknado Was the Last Great Literary Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the middle ages. The Crusades were in full swing, chivalry was alive and well, and a young John Boyer had just accepted a position as Dean at the University of Chicago. Writers across the world were telling some of the greatest stories \u2014 full of action, romance, deceit, intrigue, and just about any other noun you can think of. These were writers who possessed true artistic vision.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take the <\/span>Epic of Gilgamesh<\/span><\/i>, a story which everyone has read but nobody has ever wanted to read. It has everything: deities, quests, nine days of sex, fights, and so much more. Or look at other stories, like the <\/span>Odyssey<\/span><\/i>, or <\/span>Romeo and Juliet<\/span><\/i>, or the Bible. Notice a common trend? They all have action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now look at what today\u2019s writers are putting out. Nowadays, everybody\u2019s all stuck up in their symbolisms and figurative language and choice of diction and it seems like writers have lost the true purpose of storytelling: to entertain. You see, when people watch movies or read books, they don\u2019t want to look twelve layers deep for a hidden meaning that probably wasn\u2019t there in the first place. Audiences want to be captivated, with a riveting tale that keeps them on the edge of their seats. And this is why the hit movie <\/span>Sharknado<\/span><\/i> was the last truly great literary achievement \u2013 because it is the last one that gave the audience a completely original, thrilling story.<\/span><\/p>\n

This may sound like a baseless claim, but the numbers back it up. Literally everybody we surveyed (which was a lot of people, by the way) said they\u2019d rather watch all of the <\/span>Sharknado<\/span><\/i> movies, back to back, than read <\/span>The Great Gatsby<\/span><\/i>. Since Sharknado came out in 2013, no storyteller has even come close to matching the tale\u2019s grandeur. But don\u2019t take it from me, take it from renowned critic Chris Cinema, whose review of the Sharknado series reads \u201cOnce you\u2019ve read the title, you\u2019ve seen all the movies.\u201d Now that\u2019s an opinion you can trust.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This may sound like a baseless claim, but the numbers back it up. Literally everybody we surveyed (which was a lot of people, by the way) said they\u2019d rather watch all of the Sharknado movies, back to back, than read The Great Gatsby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":902,"featured_media":5739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5740,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions\/5740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}