Delusions of Grandeur?

From yesterday's All Things Considered:

"Lazlow Jones, the GTA [Grand Theft Auto] writer-director, says he's gotten frustrated with the level of outrage that surrounds the game. But on another level, he understands that sometimes it takes a while for the public to recognize greatness in its midst. He points to the debut of Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring, which scandalized Paris in 1913.

'The entire hall erupted into a riot,' he says, 'and there were politicians and people calling for it to be banned, because it was some kind of hedonistic thing that was certainly not art.'

A hundred years later, Jones observes, we look back on The Rite of Spring as one of the great compositions of the 20th century.

So Jones, for one, is taking the long view on Grand Theft Auto."

Read or listen to the whole thing here.

Comments

[Joel]

Wow, what an interesting analogy, however it really doesn't really seem like it applies. In my mind, the ONLY correlation may be the reception. Stravinsky's epoch marked the dawn of a new era, whereas it seems GTA marks the decadence of a new era. A depiction of a sacrificial ritual to gain benevolence vs. murder, theft, cop-killing, and prostitution?