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Originally Posted by Tarantella
But many many films today are just awful. I used to teach film to all levels of high-school students and they were absolutely confronted by my approach to modern cinema, deconstructing it and showing its many superficialities. They'd come to school after these lessons and say, "Miss, we went to the movies this weekend and all we could think about was 'wide shot, close-up, framing, axis of action" etc. It's YOUR fault!!" Students took it so personally - it was their cinema and any attempt to criticize was seen as heresy. So, there's the extent of the 'problem'!!
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I must say, I am in
awe of the scope and breadth of your expertise... How many lifetimes did you have to live in order to amass so much knowledge???
(hang on a sec before you answer that one-I gotta get up off the floor first).
Next (obvious) question: In addition to
teaching film, were you once a cinematographer? You know stuff about Hollywood and film-making that MGM probably doesn't know!
That said, it certainly is no surprise to you that even more than newspapers, books or universities,"Hollywood" is the single largest and influential educational institution around. If you look at the last 40 years of TV for example, from the days of "Leave It To Beaver" (I assume you know who that is (?) till today with your average "family" consisting of a
single parent ,1.2 kids and the requisite dog, it makes you wonder:
Is the entertainment (
I am including the printed media and all the "news" agencies in this category as well-more on that another time) world merely a mirror of society, or is it the instrument by which society is created?
31-07-12, 11:32 AM
Are we driving or driven?
