Bigger, more expensive and more.....

When I yesterday sat on the subway travelling home from konstfack reading Aftonbladet, I came across a relatively interesting article. The name of the article was “bigger, more expensive and more” (in Swedish: Större, dyrare & fler) and it was written by Susanne Nylén. She starts the article with telling the readers that there is a book called “Top 10 of everything” that is celebrating their 20th anniversary. To celebrate their anniversary they have made lists where they compare some facts from now and then. The lists that they have included in the article are “The biggest film budgets”, “The biggest cities”, “The biggest airports” and “Mobile phone users”. The numbers are very interesting.

The biggest film budget
Then 1. “War and peace” (1967) 655’’ sek

Now 1. “Pirates of the carribbean 3” 1967’’ Sek

The biggest cities
Then 1. Tokyo (1988) 23 322 000

Now 1. Tokyo 33 600 000

The biggest airports
Then 1. Chicago O´Hare (1988) 53 338 056

Now 1. Atlanta 84 846 639

Mobile phone users
Then 1. USA (1988) 1 230 000

Now 1. China 500 000 000

If I start to analyze this numbers I get a bit scared. I mean just look at the mobile phone users. In 1988 China wasn´t even on the top ten list, but today they have over 500 million users. What will happen in the next twenty years? There will definitely not be the same expansion, I would say that it would be impossible. One of the categories that I think might keep on going is the biggest film budget category. The movies get more and more expensive and I think that they will keep going in the same pace. Why do I think that? The stars demand more and more money and all the extras in the movies costs more and more. Everyone wants to have the biggest and best and also the most expensive movie. But as I mentioned in my last post there must come a time where the top is reached….but the big question is WHEN……!!!!!!

That´s all for today!
I´ll be back soon!