I know exactly what Tom means. I love to read vintage movie magazines and you
see so much of how not only the kids idolized their favorite star but the
adults as well. Women would get their hair cut or dyed to look just like a
certain star that they idolized. It didn't go missing with the men either
since the sale of bowler hat would shoot up after the release of a film where
the star wore a bowler. People would be caught up with what the stars were
doing off screen as well as on which is why movie mags sold so well.
These days we go to the movie, hopefully enjoy the film and then anxiously
await for the next release that we've been waiting for. When I was a kid we
would get together and play out great western battles or the classic cops and
robbers. With my grandson being that age now, what does he act out with his
friends....? Cartoons!! Ben 10 or Ninja Turtles. His only non-cartoon
exception is his LOVE for the Transformers movie. I will have to pack him off
to the Indiana Jones film when it comes out. Then on the way home I'll buy him
a Fedora and a bullwhip (won't the other parents love me) and we can act out
real adventure.
We don't have to live in the past but at LIVE!
Rick
www.ilovefilms.com
----- Original Message ----
From: Tom Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 2:46:48 AM
Subject: [MOPO] mopo- what do movies mean to the public and society & pop
culture
Hi Mopo citizens... My son and i talk movies and meanings and
prodction and much more..
So I was sitting here thinking..... about the storys and actors we have
admired in Motion Pictures..
Starting with Valentino, Chaplin, even before... Its all amazes me..
how the differant charcters affected
us,, The Cary Grants, Hank Fondas, Jimmy Stewarts,, and Then the John
Waynes and Jerry Lewis
all the beautiful Starlets,, Like Ann Sheridan, Maria Montez, Lana
Turner, Garbo, Monroe.... etccc
Then I thought these people influenced us with Attitudes and
personality... and some of these players
left a Image with us that have changed fashion and even how we eat,
live and talk,,,
well...when I think of a jimmy Duante or Errol Flynn each gave a
differant exture and color to Hollywood.
The 20, 30s -40s 50s Just was so full of Rich details and the glamour
and fame that appears gone now
The interest in the Horror genre and the films of the 50s scifi.. and
King Kong also are interesting
The entire business in pretty amazing...all the contributions and the
scale of what happened..
Now its going digital and the whole era of film will soon be gone with
Hand crank 16 fps cameras.
To think its only been aroud from the 1890s is incredible.. and we all
lived to see it morph..
I jsut think its incredible
This new internet makes eveything even more amazing.
The digital effects in new films allow filmmakers to creat Images that
they only were able before to have in thier heads.. Now... its able to
be brought to the screen.
like te new Indy Jones will surely show... Im amazed.
am I the only one in awe???
.
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