Hi Guys,
Sorry to join in at such a late stage.
I think that all people are pretty much the same design when you get deep down and as a result we can bet that there are an equally uniform set of basic fears to play on and that many of these have already been exploited. From this perspective originality will be hard to come by.
Moving up a level, even though we're the same we have different experiences which can also be exploited and although the appreciative audience will be smaller we can still make a living from it.
What I'm saying is, that if it scares you there are likely to be several million other people out there who can relate to that.
The quest becomes then... what scares you?
This is the mission that I'm currently on.
... with regard to chinese classics ... does anyone remember the Water Margin? Now there was a class product.
...For movies, I'd suggest Eraser Head. I lost a week's sleep over that one. The imagery alone pushes half a million panic buttons.
