Yea Adrian!! It warms my heart to hear this. My 12 year old is a huge
Beatles fan and she'll come home every once in awhile and say some friend of
hers had never heard of the Beatles and she was astounded. Her reasoning is
that they were so huge they transcended normal music groups so how could you
have never heard of them. She had one friend who went home and asked her
parents about the Beatles, and they said, "oh yea, they were o.k.".
We belong to a film society here in Los Angeles that several times a year
has screenings of old films at a beautiful old theater. It's like stepping back
to the 30's and 40's. We recently saw Notorious and when she told her friends
about it, they didn't have a clue who Cary Grant or Ingrid Bergman was. We went
to see Creature from the Black Lagoon also. So far none of her friends had ever
heard of anyone from any of the films she has seen. We went a month or so ago,
Christmas time, to the Academy to see a copy of Miracle on 34th Street. I was
happy to see a few other children in the audience.
I say let them see and hear and experience everything, whether it's the
Beatles or Led Zepplin or Buddy Holly or Frank Sinatra, Ella, Doris Day, art
museums, cultural events, whatever. Look at the gifts you are giving. Knowledge
is power and with the way this world is going, every little bit helps.
Sue
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:44:19 -0500From: [email protected]: Re: [MOPO]
Will Film stars of the 30s be forgotten?To: [email protected]
This is such a refreshing topic.
As Sue just said you have to start em young.
My kids have been brought up on Laurel and Hardy, my eldest at 16 still laughs
at the last brick gag. My middle one will watch anything as long as it's
quality and she sees the detail of a good film noir and loves it.
My little boy will laugh at L&H and enjoy a good war movie too.
Stars of the Thirties will never be forgotten as long as there are those of us
who carry the torch but what is happening is the new generation are being
starved of this wealth of wondeful material, how many times does say Casablanca
get a revisit at the cinema let alone TV.
My eldest daughter did an English project on Angels with Dirty Faces, one of
the greatest gangster films ever made, her teacher hadn't even heard of it! She
was able to compare it with The Godfather and Goodfellas.
We need some of the people more familiar with these films to have them aired.
Even things like The Shadow and the lesser known films of the 1930's need to be
shown for posterity sake.
Adrian
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