Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Sequel" in English language version.
Prequels focus on the action that took place before the original narrative. For instance, in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith the audience learns about how Darth Vader originally became a villain. A prequel assumes that the audience is familiar with the original—the audience must rework the narrative so that they can understand how the prequel leads up to the beginning of the original.
Of particular interest to me in this essay is the shift from a text-based to an author-based culture, accompanied by a developing elevation of the original author over the imitative one.
[T]he Del Whitby trilogy... intriguingly tells the same noisy tale of interstellar intrigue and revolution from three partial points of view; none of the protagonists (orphans or impostors all) knows the whole story.
The trajectory line for triple-A games ... goes up tenfold every 10 years and has since at least 1995 or so ...
[Coppola] told [Paramount Pictures] he wanted to name it 'The Godfather Part II,' an idea he'd gotten from the Russians who'd done Ivan the Terrible in two parts, at a time when no one had done a numbered sequel in Hollywood. The studio thought he was nuts, that people would think it was the same movie they'd already seen. But Coppola threatened to walk off the project if he didn't get his way. 'So I'm the jerk that started numbers on movies,' he says. 'I'm embarrassed, and I apologize to everyone.'
