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In Reply to: Re: Watching old films posted by patrickU on February 18, 2004 at 10:29:45:
Thinking about your Picasso analogy, I think it brings some clarity to the subject.The Egyptian one was done using the best techniques and vision of its era... and so was Picasso. But painting today in the 14th century manner will instantly brand you as dated.
Look at American portraits of 18th century. Their primitivism would be naive, if it wasn't so dated. Mind you, by that time the world already knew quite well how to paint great portraits, so these creations look out of their era.
There is that element in the Mr. Deeds. Perhaps if it was done in the twenties it would look fine, but not in the late thirties. It simply lacks the realism of the better films of that time.
I don't mean to beat L'Atalante to death, but there we have a 1934 film that doesn't require one to suspend too much to be touched by it. With Mr. Deeds you need to close the windows and try to submerge in its era.
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