Oct 17, 2010

Olden time movie and why there are different??











Acting styles changed.  If you took one of our movies back in time people might love the special effects but they'd find the acting weird.  The men would seem too small, and the women not glamorous enough.  Acting styles used to highlight a formalized view of the way men and women behaved and talked, and modern acting would seem slouchy.

The same goes with the dialogue.  Movie audiences used to expect a more formal style of speaking from people on film.  It seemed perfectly natural to them, and our modern free-form style of writing dialogue would seem unbeautiful, cheap, easy.  They went to the theater to see something bigger, stronger, better than life.  It's just a different form of escapism.

Which means that actors today are much less trained, for the most part.  What you want to see in a modern film is an untrained, unpolished performance that strikes you as more real.  Old film actors had to train like crazy to get their voices and bodies to do what they do.  Today, many film actors have no training at all.


Without a doubt the technical aspects are better.  Sound and picture just doesn't compare.  Some old movies had fantastic cinematography (using the limitations of the medium to produce particularly beautiful pictures), but there are equally good or better cinematographers today using the less-restricted medium to good effect.


Movie that are now being good quality....









These days there are some really great movies, just like back then there were some really great movies, but they aren't better or worse.  They are often quite different, but equally amazing.  I really love movies and I think older movies have a bit of an advantage: we don't really remember all the crappy ones.  Only the best really survive the test of time. So a lot of people look back at a history of movies which is highlighted by the best of the best and say, "Man, they don't make movies like they used to."



I, however, look at the movies we have today, love them, and say, "I think it's great we're still making a lot of really great movies.  I love the old ones.  I love the new ones."  In some ways, it would be nice if I could go to the future and see which movies make it over time, so that I don't have to sift through the okay and crap movies, but the trial and error is also part of what I enjoy about the movie going experience. 


Part of the charm of older movies is the picture and sound quality and how the directors used them to help create their worlds (think of Casablanca's soft, dreamy feel for instance).  I'm... totally not in agreement with you on the dialogue, some of my favorite movie quotes are old movies and how they said the things they said.  However, I think that we still make movies with great dialogue. 


Movies now are great because they can see it clearly because of the quality exmaple like HDD movie,
they produces it in different ways
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