Why seventies films are so fucking good.
1. Seventies films show a perverse tendency to integrate, in narratively incidental ways, story information and stylistic devices counterproductive to the films’ overt and essential narrative purposes.
2. Hollywood filmmakers of the 1970s often situate their film-making practices in between those of classical Hollywood and those of European and Asian art cinema.
3. Seventies films prompt spectator responses more uncertain and discomforting than those of more typical Hollywood cinema.
4. Seventies narratives place an uncommon emphasis on irresolution, particularly at the moment of climax or in epilogues, when more conventional Hollywood movies busy themselves tying up loose ends.
5. Seventies cinema hinders narrative linearity and momentum and scuttles its potential to generate suspense and excitement.
Then Star Wars came along and there was capeshit forever more.
>>64541142
I know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFQQsu6VBYA
sorcerer is fucking boring dogshit
whether all those aspects of 70s cinema that you listed are good or not is opinion
>>64541540
I was bored for the first half but it got very good once the truck part started.
>>64541572
watch the original
>>64541540
If you weren't aware. They are listed as a bad thing by the source.
>>64541540
>sorcerer
>no magic or sorcery
i prefer the 80s
>>64542041
>being a plot babby
I generally feel the ambition among the producers/directors were a lot higher than of those who work today.
Before, it was viewed as an artistic craftmanship which allowed some experimental attitude. Today, it's a obsessive capitalistic industry in full control of everything, from pre-production to the screen, supported by nonsensical scientific econometrics/semidemographics.
Somewhere in the late 90's it all got lost.
filmmakers do take less risks now. in special effects, in writing, in everything really
>>64541584
this
sorcerer is pretty laughable, lacks suspense and has no interesting characters (their backstories ruin everything), but the wages of fear is great
>>64542472
the whole wages of fear is better than sorcerer meme is retarded considering the two have entirely different intentions and merely share a premise
>>64541074
A group of the 70's filmakers decided it's better to make blockbusters and go for the big money.
That group included Spielberg and Lucas.
The studios that were a moneymaking industry, decided that that's the best business model and went along.
Megaflops like Heaven's Gate also did their part in convincing them.
Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is the definitive tome on why the 1970's was the greatest decade of American Cinema. it's mandatory reading for ANYONE who loves movies. His companion piece "Down and Dirty Pictures" is also a great read about the 1990's "indie" movement!!!FACT!!!
>>64541074
>Seventies films show a perverse tendency to integrate, in narratively incidental ways, story information and stylistic devices counterproductive to the films’ overt and essential narrative purposes.
Such as?
THE STUDIO SYSTEM WAS NOT CUCCKED, SMALL DIRECTORS HAD BIG MONEY.
>>64541074
70S BEST MOVIE DECADE ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION
ESPECIALLY NYC 70S, GRITTIEST MOST BASED BACKDROP LITERALLY EVER
SOME OF THOSE 70S SCORES ARE AMAZING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-WYm9nl32Q
>>64541540
>>64542472
>>64541572Minor pleb only, the first half is quite strange, but when all goes together, or on a second watch, it's a very special- and unseen elsewhere- combination
Fucking disgusting plebs
Friedkin was drunk in power and got to do all the insanities that he wanted. Sorcerer is literally a masterpiece and one of the most visceral films ever made.
>teenaged and 20something hipsters praising 70s film
Why do we even let males born after 1980 live?
>>64543561
What are you even trying to say?
>>64543561
you can do better
>>64541074
Same goes for 70's music.
Best decade
>>64542730
The Conversation
>you pleb
>>64544133
I prefer the 80's, am I a plêb?
new hollywood is pretty boring once you get over the fact that it's better than modern hollywood
>old movies
