Post by drystyx on Jun 17, 2021 0:20:05 GMT
When classifying movie eras, the only way that makes sense is to classify by significant factors that are overwhelming. There are always some movies that are escapist and some that aren't escapist, for example.
First, we have the "OLDIES EXPERIMENTAL" which probably lasted till about 1939. There, we got the full experiment of THE WIZARD OF OZ that really revolutionized the idea of total escapism. Victor Fleming put the total escapism into films. Before that, de Mille had incorporated escapism with character studies. Here, we had pure spectacle. From then on, the "experiment" of film went more to "style" than "substance", which is why we got so much "noir" after that year.
Second era was roughly 1940-1950, the "EXPERIMENT OF ATMOSPHERE" era. Not known as an era full of great films, although many great ones seeped through, this era experimented more with "atmosphere". You get lots of "atmosphere" in this era.
Third era was roughly 1950-1965, the GOLDEN OPEN MIND ERA, which combined the best elements and was the last era to consider the audience as being worthy. There were still actors fitting into the program of studios. It wasn't quite yet a "mob family". There wasn't any "preaching". it was more "let the cards fall where they fall".
Fourth era began the modern era, because this is when Hollywood officially became a mob, and was even controlled by the mob. The mob learned in the thirties that they eventually needed to control the estate of the press above all other estates, because mob success depended upon people believing you couldn't "mess with the mob", that the mob was a god, and its members demi gods, and outsiders were "cannon fodder". This was important to keep control, the same control that Homer did for Telemecus, son of Odysseus, by being the ultimate brown noser of all time. 1966-1975 is roughly the "MODERN CONTROL FREAK NEO NAZI ERA, the total adherence to Hitler's genocidal final solution to make women blond and men dark. This was preached by some of the most famous directors of the day, and lauded by the neo Nazi movie critics that the mob put into business. First, and foremost, "Hollywood", which did include the Italian studios, became totally "classical Greek hero" in style. The heroes were all "Odysseus", just demi god thugs. I even recall how the mob had a great ad campaign based on fantasy, starting the message via drug trade, with the messengers being all the pot heads and crack heads who claimed these "demi gods" were "anti heroes", the most insane idea ever, but it proved one point. Logic had nothing to do with public perception any more. Public perception was what the mob told people to believe. Hollywood no longer made movies for the audience. Instead, the audience had to adapt to the movie. Insulting and falsely accusing outsiders to be sacrificial lambs became the way of America.
Fifth era was the "MODERN PRODUCT ERA" which was a reprisal against the control freaks. It began when STAR WARS took off, a total risk taking adventure. Unlike the previous era, it was meant to unify and not divide. Movies began to be made with less preaching, and even the neo Nazi preaching was toned down. It had gotten ridiculous before, and many people were literally being "sacrificed" in real life. It's a story the press always kept under wraps. It lasted about 1976-1990. On the whole, it lacked a lot of "inspiration", because it was a "product" era.
Finally, everything since is the sixth era. The "MODERN DIVIDED WORLD ERA", and that's not a bash, it was just a necessity. A necessity because hundreds of major movies were made a week, so there was almost no possibility ever again of a "MAINSTAY" that everyone at work would be familiar with.
Actually, this MODERN DIVIDED WORLD ERA had a rough beginning with the MODERN PRODUCT ERA. STAR WARS may be the last "ORIGINAL MAINSTAY". Some came close, but no cigar.
The mainstay is something you expect others to know. Everyone knows John Wayne is someone who makes "bold talk for a one eyed fat man". That's a mainstay. Everyone knows that Luke had "a failure to communicate". Everyone knows that according to a bandit, Bogie doesn't "need to see a stinking badge".
People fool themselves into thinking anything "original" since 1990 is a mainstay. I'll go further, and say nothing original since Star Wars is a Universal mainstay even in the U.S..
Think not? Remember, I said "original". Obviously, the remakes and the continuations contain elements that are mainstays. Lets take LORD OF THE RINGS. This was a big fad among the hippies and the arts crowd in the seventies, and there was the cartoon Hobbit where Bilbo made the famous line "I lost my wizard and I lost my dwarves".
Continuations of character could also be mainstays. Indiana Jones was a continuation of Han Solo. So, the big budget film that contained a continuation of a character could have a mainstay. TITANIC was about the fifth remake of the sinking, and it was based on a historic event. Obviously, historic events have an edge on being mainstays. You can have Abe Lincoln, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, John the Baptist, Eliot Ness, and other historic characters even make mainstay lines. They're already there.
I say this because recently I saw a Face Book post asking people to name a line that tells everyone what a movie is. I read nine different lines from nine different people, and only one was a line that told me what the movie was. One of the others was a "partial" in that it was one of Arnie's lines, but I couldn't tell you which movie it was from, so I'll count that as a second one, because I could probably narrow it down to four or five of his major movies.
The other seven, I didn't have a clue. What does this mean? It can't mean I'm out of touch, because "out of touch" means you expect outsiders to know what you know, not the other way around. It doesn't mean outsiders are out of touch because they don't magically know some secret handshake that an insider group of people with superiority complexes invent just to be superior to the outsider. It means they're out of touch.
Ergo, we have people all in their own little worlds, and while some of the more mature ones, those with experience, realize it, there is a new breed of fanatics who not only pride themselves on their own little worlds, but ostracize those they won't let in their little worlds.
This was bred by Hollywood in the MODERN CONTROL FREAK ERA, an era we're reverting to in TV and movies. It appeals to divisiveness and delusions of grandeur. Generation Xenophobe was the first casualty. They were taught to be self righteous. Make no mistake, the 18 hijackers of 9-11 had the exact same fanaticism. It isn't "religion". It's "Western culture". It's "superiority complex".
The mob still dictates what millions of people see, though. So the writer's guild is a carefully controlled tool of uninspired hacks who are just as big of brown nosers as Homer was. But even with the modern TV sitcom, there is almost no way to get the "mainstay". They've tried to get mainstays out of CSI, Law and Order, Big Bang, and put much effort into this, but they aren't mainstays by any stretch of the imagination. There's just too much dilution. The average couch potato has about 250 different channels, not to mention the streaming. How can anything become a "mainstay"?
First, we have the "OLDIES EXPERIMENTAL" which probably lasted till about 1939. There, we got the full experiment of THE WIZARD OF OZ that really revolutionized the idea of total escapism. Victor Fleming put the total escapism into films. Before that, de Mille had incorporated escapism with character studies. Here, we had pure spectacle. From then on, the "experiment" of film went more to "style" than "substance", which is why we got so much "noir" after that year.
Second era was roughly 1940-1950, the "EXPERIMENT OF ATMOSPHERE" era. Not known as an era full of great films, although many great ones seeped through, this era experimented more with "atmosphere". You get lots of "atmosphere" in this era.
Third era was roughly 1950-1965, the GOLDEN OPEN MIND ERA, which combined the best elements and was the last era to consider the audience as being worthy. There were still actors fitting into the program of studios. It wasn't quite yet a "mob family". There wasn't any "preaching". it was more "let the cards fall where they fall".
Fourth era began the modern era, because this is when Hollywood officially became a mob, and was even controlled by the mob. The mob learned in the thirties that they eventually needed to control the estate of the press above all other estates, because mob success depended upon people believing you couldn't "mess with the mob", that the mob was a god, and its members demi gods, and outsiders were "cannon fodder". This was important to keep control, the same control that Homer did for Telemecus, son of Odysseus, by being the ultimate brown noser of all time. 1966-1975 is roughly the "MODERN CONTROL FREAK NEO NAZI ERA, the total adherence to Hitler's genocidal final solution to make women blond and men dark. This was preached by some of the most famous directors of the day, and lauded by the neo Nazi movie critics that the mob put into business. First, and foremost, "Hollywood", which did include the Italian studios, became totally "classical Greek hero" in style. The heroes were all "Odysseus", just demi god thugs. I even recall how the mob had a great ad campaign based on fantasy, starting the message via drug trade, with the messengers being all the pot heads and crack heads who claimed these "demi gods" were "anti heroes", the most insane idea ever, but it proved one point. Logic had nothing to do with public perception any more. Public perception was what the mob told people to believe. Hollywood no longer made movies for the audience. Instead, the audience had to adapt to the movie. Insulting and falsely accusing outsiders to be sacrificial lambs became the way of America.
Fifth era was the "MODERN PRODUCT ERA" which was a reprisal against the control freaks. It began when STAR WARS took off, a total risk taking adventure. Unlike the previous era, it was meant to unify and not divide. Movies began to be made with less preaching, and even the neo Nazi preaching was toned down. It had gotten ridiculous before, and many people were literally being "sacrificed" in real life. It's a story the press always kept under wraps. It lasted about 1976-1990. On the whole, it lacked a lot of "inspiration", because it was a "product" era.
Finally, everything since is the sixth era. The "MODERN DIVIDED WORLD ERA", and that's not a bash, it was just a necessity. A necessity because hundreds of major movies were made a week, so there was almost no possibility ever again of a "MAINSTAY" that everyone at work would be familiar with.
Actually, this MODERN DIVIDED WORLD ERA had a rough beginning with the MODERN PRODUCT ERA. STAR WARS may be the last "ORIGINAL MAINSTAY". Some came close, but no cigar.
The mainstay is something you expect others to know. Everyone knows John Wayne is someone who makes "bold talk for a one eyed fat man". That's a mainstay. Everyone knows that Luke had "a failure to communicate". Everyone knows that according to a bandit, Bogie doesn't "need to see a stinking badge".
People fool themselves into thinking anything "original" since 1990 is a mainstay. I'll go further, and say nothing original since Star Wars is a Universal mainstay even in the U.S..
Think not? Remember, I said "original". Obviously, the remakes and the continuations contain elements that are mainstays. Lets take LORD OF THE RINGS. This was a big fad among the hippies and the arts crowd in the seventies, and there was the cartoon Hobbit where Bilbo made the famous line "I lost my wizard and I lost my dwarves".
Continuations of character could also be mainstays. Indiana Jones was a continuation of Han Solo. So, the big budget film that contained a continuation of a character could have a mainstay. TITANIC was about the fifth remake of the sinking, and it was based on a historic event. Obviously, historic events have an edge on being mainstays. You can have Abe Lincoln, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, John the Baptist, Eliot Ness, and other historic characters even make mainstay lines. They're already there.
I say this because recently I saw a Face Book post asking people to name a line that tells everyone what a movie is. I read nine different lines from nine different people, and only one was a line that told me what the movie was. One of the others was a "partial" in that it was one of Arnie's lines, but I couldn't tell you which movie it was from, so I'll count that as a second one, because I could probably narrow it down to four or five of his major movies.
The other seven, I didn't have a clue. What does this mean? It can't mean I'm out of touch, because "out of touch" means you expect outsiders to know what you know, not the other way around. It doesn't mean outsiders are out of touch because they don't magically know some secret handshake that an insider group of people with superiority complexes invent just to be superior to the outsider. It means they're out of touch.
Ergo, we have people all in their own little worlds, and while some of the more mature ones, those with experience, realize it, there is a new breed of fanatics who not only pride themselves on their own little worlds, but ostracize those they won't let in their little worlds.
This was bred by Hollywood in the MODERN CONTROL FREAK ERA, an era we're reverting to in TV and movies. It appeals to divisiveness and delusions of grandeur. Generation Xenophobe was the first casualty. They were taught to be self righteous. Make no mistake, the 18 hijackers of 9-11 had the exact same fanaticism. It isn't "religion". It's "Western culture". It's "superiority complex".
The mob still dictates what millions of people see, though. So the writer's guild is a carefully controlled tool of uninspired hacks who are just as big of brown nosers as Homer was. But even with the modern TV sitcom, there is almost no way to get the "mainstay". They've tried to get mainstays out of CSI, Law and Order, Big Bang, and put much effort into this, but they aren't mainstays by any stretch of the imagination. There's just too much dilution. The average couch potato has about 250 different channels, not to mention the streaming. How can anything become a "mainstay"?
