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Topic: The Romance Is Missing
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Tom Spielman
Master Film Handler
Posts: 339
From: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Registered: Apr 2016
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posted June 06, 2016 07:46 AM
Dave, you're exactly right. For most people (even outside their 20's), it's just pictures on a screen. They don't care about the technology behind it. They're there to enjoy the imagery, the story, the characters, and to step outside their normal lives for a couple of hours.
Digital technology makes it a little bit easier for independent, low budget filmmakers to get their work seen but whether digital or film, the technology is only a small piece of the puzzle. Creating a movie that somebody would be willing to show in a cinema is no small feat.
However, even prior to the digital age plenty of bad films were made. MST3000 wouldn't have existed if that weren't true.
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John Hourigan
Master Film Handler
Posts: 301
From: Colorado U.S.A.
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted June 07, 2016 09:49 AM
I don't read any of the posts in this discussion as "trashing the past" or indicating that any format is "obsolete." What I do see is the natural progression of technology in life.
Heck, I still listen to AM radio, but that doesn't mean I don't partake in other options that provide better audio quality. Same goes with my film collecting pursuits -- I enjoy film, but have absolutely incorporated digital into my screening pursuits, and have never looked back. To excerpt Paul Adsett from earlier in this thread if I may, "... there is no way that I would want to go back to pre-digital projection days .... My home cinema never looked or sounded so good." I wholeheartedly agree.
In terms of the loss of "specialness," "romance," or "magic" of film-making or screenings, that's just the natural progression of technology. When radio first came out, groups of people would gather around the radio as it was a "special" "event" in those early days -- now radio is everywhere and, as a result, it has progressed beyond the "event" stage. The same can be said for cars, microwaves, televisions, etc. -- these modern conveniences have now become an integral part of everyday life, and have progressed, and rightly so, beyond the "specialness" phase of when these technologies were first introduced. Film is no different in that regard.
I think the real difference that comes into play is that some people appear to constantly view everything through the lens of pining for the nostalgia of the past. While to each his/her own, life is way too short to constantly be looking in the "rear-view mirror" rather than looking forward and enjoying all that life has to offer today.
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