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The most powerful influence on the arts in the West is -- the cinema. Novels, plays *and films* are filled with references to, quotations from, parodies of -- old movies. They dominate the cultural subconscious because we absorb them in our formative years (as we don't absorb books, for instance)... The first two generations predominantly nourished on movies are now of an age when they rule the media; and it's already frightening to see how deeply -- in their behavior as well as their work -- the cinema has imprinted itself on them. Nobody took into account the tremendous impact that would be made by the fact that films are *permanent* and *easily accessible from childhood onward*. As the sheer number of films piles up, their influence will increase, until we have a civilization entirely molded by cinematic values and behavior patterns.Kenneth Tynan (his diaries)
October 19, 1976
(from the New Yorker, August 14, 2000)
A man ahead of his time, wouldn't you agree?clark
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Think of all those treacherous plots, romantic twists, and quotable lines. The Bard was definitely ahead of his time, and Hollywood knows well enough to steal from the best.
Astute observations. Since the introduction of motion pictures as a means of mass communication and entertainment we've been immersed in a culture which is capable of reflecting upon itself in a more immediate manner than was previously possible.Written descriptions, painting, music & even still photography are all capable of doing the same, of course, and contributed in that fashion to earlier generations - but what the cinema gave us was a medium capable of combining discourse and aesthetics in a purely manner which is immediately accessible to just about anyone (the most democratic art form?).
Basically, since the turn of the century (and especially since the introduction of the "talkies") we've been engaged in an ongoing programme of self-reflection, whether we know it or not. The only problem is whether this is realised as self-discovery, or self-obsession.
TG
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