There were great directors, excellent screen writers, imaginative costume designers, fantastic music composers!
Who doesn't remember Maurice Jarre’s score as the sun drenched desert sweeps before you in Lawrence of Arabia? Or the cinematography of the POWs as they march to attention as Col. Bogey is playing in the background in The Bridge Over the River Kwai? Who doesn't remember the beginning minutes of both Star Wars and Raiders of the Ark? Those were movies moments that hundreds of millions of movie goers enjoyed all within weeks of each other. Now Hollywood has become boringly repetitive with less than exciting actors, directors, etc.
Jarre’s score of Witness (1985) made that movie even more better. And he also did Ghost (1990).
“There were great directors, excellent screen writers, imaginative costume designers, fantastic music composers!“
There are “reaction videos “ on you tube wherein young people view acts from the past for the first time. Sometime the reactors are in the arts, sometimes they are just folks. There is one where five early twenties black guys are the reactors. Listening to their comments as they go it is surprising both what they know as well as what they don’t know. These five viewed Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers and were absolutely blown away by the sophistication and complexity and sheer athleticism of the 1930s/1940s performers . One said “Man we don’t do NUTHIN today, jus walk out bla bla bla …”
( Viewing a destruction via Larry Bird highlights of their cement hard cultural belief that what men can’t jump was a riot.)