Old Movies Are Better!

Old films are much better. I am not certain why. They generally are in black and white. The actors have a tendency to be more than dramatic. The unique effects are not up to present "snuff." But nonetheless, old motion pictures are very best. Nicely, not all old motion pictures. Some are junk.

The Actors:

Woody Allan, June Allison, Fred Astaire, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Wallace Barry, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Boyer, James Cagney, Charlie Chaplin, Gary Cooper, Montgomery Cliff, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, Glen Ford, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Charles Laughton, Katharine Hepburn, Buster Keaton, Ray Malland, Fredrick March, Shirley McClain, Marilyn Monroe, Merle Oberon, Martha Ray, Red Skelton, Barbara Stanwyck, Jimmy Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Rudolph Valentino, Robert Wagner, John Wayne, Jane Wyman, . Some of those are nevertheless amongst the living.

One nice factor is that Ted Turner preserved numerous old films and we can watch those actors uninterrupted by commercials on tv.

Thank you, Ted!

What a fantastic contribution to the individuals of the globe that love old films. Rather of rotting away in cans in some warehouse, they are preserved for generations to appreciate. I may well just hug Ted Turner and all these who have preserved our film heritage.

Sadly, some movies are lost forever.

I know that you can add many names to the above list. Who are your favourite actors of the previous?

The Directors

To inform you the truth, I never spend a lot focus to the directors except for Alfred Hitchcock whose name alone will drag me to his films. Some Properly-identified directors are Woody Allan, Frank Capra, Charlie Chaplin, George Cukor, Victor Fleming, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Michael Powell, Nicholas Ray, Preston Sturges, and Billy Wilder.

Some of those are nevertheless at it.

Quite a few actors are as well directors. Quite a few actors and directors are as well writers. Billy Wilder is a renowned writer. I consider he directed the extremely funny Some Really like it Hot.

That is around all I know around the writers except they have been targeted as "communist" by a unsafe United States Senator who destroyed several careers by "black listing." I will not give him the honor of mentioning his name.

The Dialog :

The writers are crucial to a nice film and despite the fact that I have largely ignored them so far, right here is some of their dialog courtesy of [http://well-known-film-quotes.org:]

Casa Blanca : (1942)

Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My wellness. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.

Ferrari: We may possibly as Properly be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germans have outlawed miracles.

Ilsa: Play it (once again), Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

Montag: Nicely, it really is a job adore any other. Nice perform with a lot of range. Monday, we burn Miller. Tuesday, Tolstoy. Wednesday, Walt Whitman. Friday, Faulkner. And Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre.

No Nation for Old Men (1007):

Moss: If I do not come back, inform mother I take pleasure in her.
Carla Jean: Your mother's dead, Llewelyn.
Moss: Nicely, then I will inform her myself.

Nice dialog is nonetheless about but you may discover it sparse in this day and age. The writers produce nice dialog but destroy it with filthy words. We all know that some persons have foul mouths but we do not require to hear it and neither do our children. The motion pictures makers need to make issues as realistic as feasible. I say, make it unrealistic but nonetheless enjoyable.

Is it accurate the old motion pictures are superior?

I do not believe so. Private Ryan is a pretty new film but from my thing of view as a former combat infantryman, it will turn out to be a classic just as did All Quiet on the Western Front. Good acting by Tom Hanks and good directing by Steven Spielberg produced it so.

There are several old films that were remade such as Mutiny on the Bounty and Titanic. I really like the remakes of the initial but not so significantly, the second. The specific effects in the most current version of Titanic was what it was all around, but I enjoy the additional convincing earlier versions. (Yes, I adore the final version also.)

So, what do you feel? Do you feel that old motion pictures are superior?

John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com), a retired college professor and organization executive, former editor of an international engineering magazine. Writer, novelist, painter of landscapes. A lot of grand-youngsters.

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