Hello readers, I know by now I have something new to post review-wise on the site. However, I thought today I would like to take the space to discuss film as a whole in a series that I hope can become more frequent. While the reviews will commence soon enough, I felt that I should express some thoughts before it left my mind.
The film industry is a business, as we all know. Films are primarily made for the profit of the studios while also entertaining audiences for a few weeks. It's hard to convince people that film was made strictly for art (sad to say guys, but it really wasn't) however I have been thinking about this for a while and I came up with something I've not heard of before: All films, whether made for the art or the entertainment all speak the same language to their audiences and I almost look at them as living beings themselves.
Think about that for just a minute, films have flaws both minor and major, they show emotions both visually and vocally, and they each have their own personalities. They are living people (just made of celluloid). I admit that in my college years, I had a large film snob phase where everything had to be 'perfect' however, I have cooled down and now I enjoy what I enjoy and I dislike what I dislike. Films contributed to my life and will in the future, whether that film may be complete fiction or grounded in reality everything provides a lesson for me to learn.
The worst films I have seen can still provide knowledge as if one made the mistake themselves and to learn from that mistake grants oneself knowledge. Sure, not everything in life can apply to this philosophy, but it really has worked to shape my personality and my choices with my career and my behavior. 'Gone With The Wind' can give me as much as 'Lake Placid' and I think that's what makes film so much more important to our history and our culture than people ever seemed to imagine.
When I hear stories of film history forever lost (whether it be a deleted scene or the historic film set on the Universal Back lot) it hurts me in the same way one would hurt if they saw the Mona Lisa burned. It's the destruction of something that we can never have back and something that can provide lessons for the future. I know I got really serious with this article, I wanted to start this blog in the first place in order to discuss all sides of my love of cinema. This subject is so much deeper than simple reviews or box office receipts. It's a part of my very person.
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