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Interestingly, I use Casablanca as my go to example of a classic that younger audiences find boring, predictable and cliché. By the time most viewers today see
by manachar 11y ago
Interestingly, I use Casablanca as my go to example of a classic that younger audiences find boring, predictable and cliché.
By the time most viewers today see Casablanca they'll have already seen most of the scenes ripped-offed, parodied, homaged, or referenced. For the first time viewer it won't feel like the original and instead will feel like an old black and white copy with a strange style of overacting.
- krylon 11y agoFor me, it was quite the opposite - when I saw Casablanca for the first time, I remembered all the scenes from it being parodied or quoted, and I thought, "so that is where those came from". The same happened to me watching The Wizard of Oz. Suddenly I remembered all those scenes from the Simpsons which I did not get before and was like, "now I get it". There is an episode of Star Trek DS9 where a character almost literally quotes the speech at the end of The Third Man (given, incidentally, by Orson Welles). Had I not seen The Third Man, I would have thought it was just a stupid monologue, but knowing where it came from changed the tone and gravity of that scene completely.
- ableal 11y agoBorges has a story for that ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Quixote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Qu... - where a book now being rewritten identically word for word is, of course, a completely different book ...