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June 14th 2009 11:24
I want to preface this with something that really annoys me, and to a degree scares me. Most people I know could not care less about the important films of the past, most dubbing anything black and white as boring and pointless. Why would movie studios and film production companies spend millions of dollars and hundreds of hours painstakingly restoring these films and putting them on DVD if they weren’t ‘classics’ in every sense of the word? This annoys me because people refuse to open their minds and see what is out there, what the films of the past can teach us. The thing that scares me is the people my age in twenty years or so will be the heads of these film studios and film production companies. What then? In place of the musical singin’ in the rain, will it be step up 2: the streets? And will some like it hot be replaced by sorority girls?
I really want people to think about what I’m saying; these classic films deserve our attention. Just because they may not be in colour, or even have sound, this does not mean you won’t be moved or entertained any less. I have taken to changing a few people’s minds on the subject, opening them up to classics (my boyfriend watched the Humphrey Bogart film ‘the big sleep’ with me and quite enjoyed it[ Click here to read more ]
I really want people to think about what I’m saying; these classic films deserve our attention. Just because they may not be in colour, or even have sound, this does not mean you won’t be moved or entertained any less. I have taken to changing a few people’s minds on the subject, opening them up to classics (my boyfriend watched the Humphrey Bogart film ‘the big sleep’ with me and quite enjoyed it
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