For some time now, connections have been made between Adventure Time, the Cartoon Network TV series, and the Legend of Zelda, a Nintendo game franchise. Fan art of Adventure Time characters in unmistakable Link (the game's lead character) garb, have been surfacing on various popular art communities and social networks. The show itself seems to take motifs from similar games of it's genre as well. This in tern is a form of remixed media in and of itself. I just decided to take this concept to the next step.
Using a song by Joe Pleiman, titled "The Legend of Zelda" or as popularly known as "Link! He Came to Town" on the internet, I combined various scenes from Adventure Time to form a play on how much parts of the show resemble that of the popular Nintendo franchise. Pleiman's song is also a remix of a memorable Overworld tunes in the Legend of Zelda games, but appropriated with the common base story-line represented in the games themselves. The idea is to draw connections and overlaps between the different mediums to form a playful critique of their similarities and differences and how they influence each other.
When combining these aspects, this project displays how art is built upon the constructs of what has come before it. My video may then also be remixed and appropriated into something else in the future. The use of materials and how I am regulating clips from the show, proves that I am not deteriorating the aspects of any of the given material, but in fact embracing them via Fair Use. I am not merely copying but refitting the story from the Adventure Time with that of The Legend of Zelda to form a new narrative.
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