Posted on 03/06/2017 8:47:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
It’s more all of the films from that era. They aren’t in the pop culture anymore. They are becoming the domain of aficionados.
I loved Casablanca but my all-time favorite was “Laura”. An original chick flick.....;) The 30’s and 40’s were some of the best years of movies in our lifetimes.
It doesn’t hurt that Gene Tierney was gorgeous.
Relax. I’ve shown “Casablanca” to a couple of twenty-somethings recently and both thought it was incredibly great, wondering why we don’t have actors and writers like that now. This article is BS.
It’s a movie that extols freedom. Slate don’t play that.
Thanks !
I’m 68 and I wasn’t particularly enthralled by the movie.
So are we lol
There are many great movies of that general era. Casablanca is one of them, but so is Gone With The Wind, and the movie that made The Duke a star - Stage Coach. Bogart, Gable & The Duke!!
Ten yrs ago or so I took Robert McKee’s screenwriting course. He took half a day analyzing, scene by scene, Casablanca.
Totally engrossing, even more than the rest of the fascinating course. McKee is a tremendously entertaining lecturer.
</I>Laura</I> is great. I’ve seen it on the big screen numerous times.
Slate does not have the best reputation. This article is another prime example.
The popular consciousness is accelerating into oblivion.
Every artist’s creation is affected by the passage of time and the passing away of the first viewers. People used to say the most popular film was Gone With The Wind. A new version came out as a TV mini-series called Scarlett in 1994.
Many were determined to dislike it long before the production was complete. Sometimes an idealized portrayal has a certain shelf life of appeal, no matter who the director or the lead actors are.
I’ve tried to like Citizen Kane. I just don’t.
Slate does not have the best reputation. This article is another prime example.
Today you have to pay a king’s ransom to see one movie(usually garbage) one time. I remember the days of double features, newsreels, travelogues, and cartoons for a lot less money, and worth the money too.
Of old films that hold up in fact get better with age
I think The Searchers is in a class of its own
..Its for more complex then anything you could make nowadays in our PC culture. Really it the start of the anti-hero
Even modern reviewers that appreciate the film still don’t get some of the subtex..
They want to make the Wayne character a basic racist towards the Indians ..yet ignore his empathy towards “Look” the Indian Squaw when they find her kills by soldiers in the Indian camp
It’s almost too complex and primal at the same time for the politically correct mind of today too grasp what’s going on
Great great movie. I always get something new out of it when I watch it
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