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Post by mortsahlfan on Jun 14, 2017 0:20:53 GMT
General examples or specific stories. It could be influence to people with power (Watching a war movie then deciding it's a good idea to go to war)... or with countries, or the general population --- vague, inaccurate (or accurate), etc., regardless if the movie is true or not (The Birth of a Nation) in its depiction... Culturally with "Reefer Madness" - I know some people who still believe this (and other things).
Take a loose interpretation.. It also doesn't hurt to give a little information about yourself.. Country, age, gender, anything you can think of.
You can also do a retrospective analysis.... For example, the theater was VERY important during The Great Depression... Nowadays, I don't know ANYONE who goes to the movies, and the few who used to love movies don't ever watch them anymore.... Most are sick of the movies coming out lately -- remakes, superheroes, nothing original, bad screenplays, acting that isn't worth a darn, etc etc..
What do you all think?
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Post by wmcclain on Jun 14, 2017 1:40:01 GMT
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Post by gadolinium on Jun 18, 2017 22:10:17 GMT
Since the best way to get to the core of a form is to study its effect in some unfamiliar setting, let us note what President Sukarno of Indonesia announced in 1956 to a large group of Hollywood executives. He said that he regarded them as political radicals and revolutionaries who has greatly hastened political change in the East. What the Orient saw in a Hollywood movie was a world in which all the ordinary people had cars and electric stoves and refrigerators. So the Oriental now regards himself as an ordinary person who has been deprived of the ordinary man's birthright.
-- Marshall Mcluhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jun 18, 2017 23:07:25 GMT
The Day After effected Ronald Reagan's approach to the Cold War.
Jaws increased shark hunting.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 19, 2017 4:49:36 GMT
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Post by mslo79 on Jun 19, 2017 5:41:25 GMT
I still think you got some quality movies each year but i do find it becoming more difficult to find a movie that's about as good as movies can get lately as 10/10's seem to be non-existent and even 9/10's are basically rare for me in this current decade (only three movies).
so i can't quite say 'movies suck' to the point ill stop watching some i have not seen as the years pass. but i do find i have been re-watching more movies than movies i see for the first time for years now (i.e. at least since 2012 to date and probably before this for years i would estimate).
also, like i always say... with movies in general, it's not about being original but taking a idea that's already been done but do it well.
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Post by medjay on Jun 19, 2017 10:06:55 GMT
Movies don't influence people with power much in my opinion.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Jul 5, 2017 0:48:31 GMT
The film medium has an extraordinary influence on society and its culture. Some say that it reflects society, but I say it's too often the other way around. I've spent my life in the business, and I've seen its influence on the culture for decades now. And to anyone who thinks - just as one example - that the proliferation of profanity in everyday speech is not a consequence of what we see in films need only look at Madison Avenue to see how that affects our impulses to buy. The same with films telling people it's okay to speak and behave badly without consequence. We are being conditioned and don't even realize it. It's like Melvyn Douglas' line to Brandon de Wilde in Hud: "Lonnie, little by little the shape of the land changes by the men we admire." Change "men" to the profanity (among other things) we view in films and you get my point. I agree. Mediums have only increased... Newspapers, radio, TV, internet... It shapes the spectrum of debate for 99% of people. You can't even get a job without the internet. I don't have internet on my phone and it's a problem for OTHER people (?). Violence has replaced justice... Nudity has replaced love. I was born in 82, but 99% of the movies I love were made before I was born. Music too. Technology dehumanized the ONLY thing we have. If humans aren't creating, then it's just a computer app.. Drum machines, auto-tune (you don't even need to sing, no drummer necessary, computer cheats)... But I don't believe the leading-actors anymore. They don't convince me, and the woman don't charm me. I wish the industry could be a little less greedy and try to make a movie with TALENT -- it might even make a lot of money, as long as they stop condescending to the audience, thinking we're too stupid to understand anything more than a car chase. And I don't like watching paint dry  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 0:52:15 GMT
All of human history, and therefore entertainment, is built on conflict. We consume copious amounts of media that expose us to conflict over and over again. Whether it's the news or the latest Hollywood blockbuster. I am positive there's an influence, and it's not a positive one. Especially since so much of this conflict ends with violence.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jul 6, 2017 0:40:33 GMT
Lugosi's Dracula inspired a lot of people to talk in bad Transylvanian accents, especially on October 31.
Art has to have relevance to the experiences and backgrounds of the audience. It has to have some kind of truth and honesty about life, Nature, behavior etc.
Technology may be one reason for changes in the quality of content (and the marketing of it), but I think the main reason is that you have an art form where people from the background of the public are not actually making the content or starring in it.
This is because the owners of the media companies choose not to hire them.
It's kind of like the Soviet Union. How many movies can you name that were made by the central committee?
Ditto for Canada?
My hope is that these big media companies implode from mismanagement and natural decay and smaller companies can come along to shake things up again by giving opportunities to artists in the public, not just people selected because they fit a multicultural-globalist agenda.
Technology has made the big studios irrelevant anyway-someone with consumer technology has as much studio power (in theory) as a big studio did in 1980.
If a low budget star system could develop, it would help (since the faces in the films are a big part of the selling point and god have actors got boring and ugly).
Jennifer Lawrence is no Jacqueline Bisset.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 6, 2017 0:45:29 GMT
I remember the movie JFK (1991) being cited as a reason for the JFK Records Act from 1992.
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