Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson is exploring the art of the remix in a four part series called Everything is a Remix. In the first part, he looked at its prominence in music and its ubiquity in early hip-hop, where it was responsible for defining the form and the people who created it. And, referencing its omnipresence on the web today, looked at how the music industry as a whole was full of examples of musicians remixing the work of someone else—from cover songs to modified copying.In this second installment, Ferguson looks at remixing in the film industry where archetypes of characters are reworked and reformed time and time again, taking note of Hollywood’s current meta-state of remixing, which turns theme parks into films, films into musicals, and back again. And did you know Star Wars ripped off a bunch of movies too? In story, mise-en-scène, even right down to that walrus guy’s arm getting lightsabered off in the Mos Eisley Cantina. The third part, due out in the spring, looks at original and unoriginal ideas. It’ll be interesting to see where the series ends up, as you could take this analogy further and say that all human creativity is a remix, pooled from the flowing sea of information that cascades throughout history.