subject: Hollywood Blockbusters Get Enough Publicity. Let The Classics Take You Back To Yesteryear. [print this page] You can't go anywhere without a large, colorful movie poster staring you in the face. Then there are the endless commercials on television and the seemingly endless preview of coming attractions in the movie theaters themselves.
I get it. I do. It's all about moving forward, right? All in the name of progress? No, it's cool. But what happens to all of the movies that you've already made while you're out there advertising the new ones? What are those huge reels of film doing while you're whittling away at what you're hoping is going to be next summer's hit?
Do you really want to know or care about what happened to them? They are deserted, abandoned and under loved by the movie going public. They are left alone to gather dust in a vault somewhere while uncaring people go off in search of the latest and greatest. When they do make it out of their place of refuge, they will be found on eBay sold by so called film buffs looking to gain some closet space and a few bucks.
I suppose it all makes sense. Everyone wants to be in on the latest. But think about it. There really is a reason why some people prefer to live in small towns; why their kids attend small schools, and why people still bake cookies for their neighbors every Christmas. Today isn't always an improvement on yesterday.
And that goes for movies too.
Classic films are sublime pieces of early film art. We dwell in a world of CGI animation and artistic directors who have available to them limitless technological goodies and special effects to bring movies to life. The downside to all this cutting edge gadgetry, as has been brought up many times by film aficionados everywhere, is that with all this new, exiting action and non-stop visual and audio effects, modern movies suffer from a lack of story line, lack of character development and lack of anything really interesting to a thinking human being.
The great thing about the classics of yesteryear is that when they were made, the film industry in itself was in its infancy. There was a lot of experimentation and flexing of creative muscles. This led to some of the most creative and enthralling movies ever made.
There were no special effects. There wasn't even color - just black and white with very cinematic shades of gray. There really was a time when a film was made with the creative artistry of writers, directors, cameramen and actors who had no access to technology other than their own imagination. This was a time of deep story lines, odd plot twists, real character development and a whole generation of films to blow you away. These films may seem nave in their technological simplicity. Perhaps that is the very thing that makes them so interesting when viewed today.
And in taking your breath away these classic films will take you back to yesteryear, with their rough graphics, poorly conceived special effects and the magnificent storylines that kept you watching anyway.
