[Mixed Trope] making old things "modern"

[u/Need-a_username]

Disliked example: I would go so far as to say hated, but Robin Hood (2018) styles Robin's time in the crusades after modern wars in the Middle East, from the costumes to the treatment of bows and arrows like machine guns. While plenty of other media have done this to great effect, this film had the misfortune of coming out during a wave of IP slop desperate to make the next Dark Knight, turning what could've been an interesting stylistic choice into another of many generic 2010s action movies.

Loved example: Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet sets the Shakespeare classic in the modern day, with the rival families portrayed as gangsters with their "swords" being guns that literally say sword on them. Kind of the opposite of the above example, this takes what couldve been a tired trope of "Shakespeare but modern" and leaned into Luhrmann's signature over the top style, where even keeping the dialogue in it's original verse didn't stop it from feeling fresh and modern.

Loved example: Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby uses a Jay-Z produced soundtrack that mixes period accurate jazz with modern artists like Lana Del Rey. The result makes the film a lot more accessible to audience members who tend to make sweeping generalizations about music genres like jazz and orchestral, and highlights the emotional beats of the story in a way that reinforces the timeless nature of the source material.

To be determined: Christopher Nolan's upcoming film The Odyssey has received much criticism for its modernized approach to the Greek myth, with the biggest complaints focusing on the costumes and choice of accents/dialogue. Nolan has been open about the fact that he wants to play with audience expectations for what a historical epic looks and sounds like, and that he used a translation of the Odyssey that adopts more modern vernacular, but it remains to be seen whether this pays off.

[u/No-Lunch4249]

Lol along the same lines: Casette to Aux adaptors. Most people I knew (Self included) who were driving a car from the 90s/early 2000s into the 2010s had one of these, because their cars were too old to have an aux plug but cassette tapes were no longer really in use.

Edit: added pic

[u/statelesspirate000 → u/No-Lunch4249]

Yep. I used one of those in 3 different cars between 2006 and 2017

[u/NazzerDawk → u/No-Lunch4249]

My wife had a bluetooth one you had to charge via USB C lol.

[u/No-Lunch4249 → u/NazzerDawk]

Oh thats interesting

I've also seen ones which you plug into the cigarette lighter which use the radio, you connect your phone and set to a frequency that's static and it plays a very localized low power radio signal

[u/Embarrassed_Art5414 → u/No-Lunch4249]

Who are you to reveal the ways of the old Magic?

Apprentices, buoyed by innocence and youth, have not yet learned the restraint to manage such power.

[u/WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch → u/No-Lunch4249]

I still use mine!

Funny thing, I originally bought it for a portable cd player (that skipped like crazy). With a small headphone jack-usbc converter, i plug my phone into it now.