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Not to diminish your list, but notably they're all non scientific, there's a push with Kissinger. (One could see economics as a science) Point being: they only
by bilekas 4y ago
Not to diminish your list, but notably they're all non scientific, there's a push with Kissinger. (One could see economics as a science)
Point being: they only serve the generation who survive them, Moore, will outlive us all, in fact and in legacy.
Edit: What I said isn't true, music, movies and arts will outlive us. We have different lists.
- azinman2 4y agoTheir impacts go beyond their generation by having shifted the world in some way.
- WalterBright 4y ago> music, movies and arts will outlive us. Will they? Who watches old movies?
- vmladenov 4y agoI just watched Some Like It Hot (1959) a few weeks ago. Great comedy, looks phenomenal in 4K
- WalterBright 4y agoI watch old ones, too, but always by myself. Nobody else wants to. It's always "eww, black and white!" Often they're right. They'd be much more watchable with an AI that could sharpen the picture and colorize it.
- vmladenov 4y agoWatched it with the family! Was a hit Hard disagree on the colorization bit. I don’t see how color would improve some thing like Psycho or Citizen Kane
- WalterBright 4y agoNice!
- the_only_law 4y agoI don’t know. Sometimes poor contrast black and white film does really well for the atmosphere/vibe/whatever the hell you want to call it.
- WalterBright 4y ago"Sometimes" is the right word. Usually, it's just inferior. B+W was used for artistic purposes only rarely, the rest of the time it was because it was cheap and easy.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoA kid in this house has started an appreciation for the original Twilight Zone, and enjoyed Casablanca before that. Gotta start early I guess. TV is scarce in this house, which promotes reading and feeling lucky to see a great movie, no matter the era.
- gibspaulding 4y agoI think it'd take more than picture quality to make classic films accessible. Acting styles and pacing especially have changed a ton since the b&w era. It's not to say they're not good, but they're a bit of an acquired taste.
- ta1243 4y agoPeter Parker for one. > Hey guys, you ever see that really old movie, The Empire Strikes Back As a kid I watched many films from my parent's generation. Mary Poppins (1964) or Great Escape (1963) come to mind as being staples every christmas -- Great Escape on boxing day especially A generation before that people watched "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) for much the same reason. I've subjected my kids to a few old films from well before they were born, but they were films from my youth -- Bill and Ted, Back to the Future, Men in Black, Muppet Christmas Carol etc. And yes they've seen Star Wars, which was from before I was born (just), but that's an ongoing franchise. I don't see them watching films from the 1960s like I did though, and I doubt they'll make their kids sit through films from the 90s.
- jfk13 4y ago> A generation before that people watched "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) for much the same reason. Some of us still watch it! Of course the vast majority of old movies are long forgotten (and no great loss), just as the vast majority of what we're producing today will be. But there are a minority of classics that endure. Just as there's still a market for Shakespeare, Dickens, and Mozart, despite all the plays, books and music that have been written since.