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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2009 16:55:43 GMT
Some of those old movies are just not pertinent to the younger generations anymore. We need to refurbish them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 25, 2019 12:53:18 GMT
Returning to the more traditional concept of classic movies, I am realising more and more how many I have never seen. The main reason for that is because I am not a great fan of classics. I (almost) always want to see only the latest cutting edge things on the screen. I don't live in the past. Nevertheless, I know that I am wrong, because a lot of old movies fashioned the world into what it is now -- morals, the concept of right and wrong, gender roles, religious influence, family values, etc. It is important to know from where a lot of these ideas came to us, even the ones that are wrong.
Anyway, in spite of the changing world, Sunday is still a pretty boring day in a lot of the world, and it has become a day when my channel surfing often stops on the Paramount Channel. Today it stopped on "Le Train Sifflera Trois Fois." (The train will whistle three times.) I know that this is one of the top Western classics ever, but I have lived in France so long now that when the title is totally different from the original title, I am mystified as to the original title without looking it up. Today, though, it just took a few minutes for me to remember the "real" title when one character told another "I certainly would not take the train today at noon." Aha! High Noon.
The acting is so old fashioned, but the story remains gripping. Of course in old Hollywood movies, you know that good will always triumph over evil, so there's not really a huge amount of suspense, but I still instantly understood why it is a classic.
Have any of the rest of you discovered old classics decades later?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 25, 2019 15:49:40 GMT
I have actually seen Sunset Boulevard on the big screen here. I went to see it at the Studio 28 with a German friend.
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