It’s truly absurd. Nerd culture is totally dominant right now, but someone says they prefer Bresson and Bergman—filmmakers a vast number of comic book movie fans have no interest in whatsoever—and they react as if the things they love are in danger.
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It’s sort of like hell, every time a new Terrence Malick movie comes out, there have to be think pieces about how he is pretentious and overrated, as if he’s some kind of danger to film culture, and as if there’s more than one filmmaker creating the kinds of films he does.
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Replying to @mattzollerseitz @carolynmichelle
This phenomenon always makes me think of this Ebert quote. Applies to music too I think, and a lot of other fields/mediums. I’ve never been able to pinpoint exactly why cinema is held to such uniquely hostile, narrow standards.pic.twitter.com/sh1H8I2QrX
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Even people who otherwise appreciate experimentation, challenges, even obscurity elsewhere conceive movies as only fitting inside a tiny definition. Is it something inherent in visual processing? Or a cultural tic ingrained by years of practice? It’s baffling.
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Seems like in music however there’s far more space for expansive taste and overlap between mainstream acceptance and aesthetic ambition. My impression is that it’s much easier to find a Velvet Underground fan than a Bergman fan. People explore music in a way they don’t film.
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And there also seems to be a broader interest in history, just speaking (somewhat) anecdotally. A casual listener is much more likely to be into the Beatles, Bob Marley, Clash, Notorious B.I.G., etc than a casual viewer is to almost any older film outside of Star Wars.
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Which is so weird to me because...kids, CGI *still* doesn’t look that convincing.
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People’s opinions and tastes are their own, but I admit, when someone dismisses the whole history of b&w cinema and can’t even appreciate the pleasures of something like Casablanca, it makes me deeply sad.
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