censorship boards lost a lot of their power, boomers were finally "adults" but not old crusty Reaganite types yet, and so you had a lot of directors willing to try new shit
Old Hollywood died and their monopoly power to manipulate productions died. 70's producers and directors had more creative freedom than any point since the 20's.
Honestly the Blockbuster Era is overdue for its own death.
Studio system emerges in the late 20's. Loses its Monopoly in the late 50's. Is functionally dead by the 70s. 40ish years.
Meanwhile the New Hollywood types had all gone corporate in the 80's because of Star Wars/Jaws success and things like the Twilight Zone deaths and Heaven's Gate flopping ending the more auteur era, 40ish years ago.
Best case scenario is this current iteration of Hollywood bleeds of money until its dead and we get another creative driven era, for a little while at least.
There's that and there's some democratization from shooting digitally / tape before that. But what sits at the top of the food chain since the 80's is the blockbuster and meanwhile the mid budget film has gone progressively extinct since the 90s leaving a totally bifurcated ecosystem between colossal Hollywood shit and the independents. Like little proto-rats darting around in the shadows while the Dinosaurs still rule the planet.
Greater director control. Hollywood studios were panicking in the 60s because people weren’t watching movies anymore so they just let anyone with an interesting idea make stuff hoping for a hit.
>Why was the 70s such a good decade for movies?
There was a lot of dogshit that came out in the 70s.
We need more kino set in the 30s. WWI lost America its innocence (if it ever had it), bur WWII it seems lost America something more intangible, it’s like the country lost its character afterwards. We talk about buzzwords like “globohomo” now but it definitely first reared its ugly head in the 50s and 60s
You see Hollywood falling directly in line with Washington DC in the late 30s through the 40s. Probably the majority of movies were pro-war/Anti-German propaganda, complete with advertisements for war bonds. This includes many widely lauded films like Key Largo and Casablanca. I could probably stand it if they were fun movies to watch but they simply aren't. I watched Hitchwiener's Lifeboat tonight and it was such dogshit when a few years earlier (and later) he was making actually decent pictures. I believe this was to get back into society's good graces after being repudiated with the Hayes code. One of the many coincident developments that effectively amounted to the intensification of apparati of mass control in modern societies.
This, the 1930s is not the 1900s. The soundtrack to something like Chinatown would have been more fitting for the era, but on the other hand it’s not a gritty neo noir either so jazz wouldn’t have fit too well. Well I guess they just needed something to sound old to the audiences of the 70s, which is interesting because probably a lot of if not most people who saw The Sting would have remembered the 1930s firsthand just like people remember the 1980s today.
We need more kino set in the 30s. WWI lost America its innocence (if it ever had it), bur WWII it seems lost America something more intangible, it’s like the country lost its character afterwards. We talk about buzzwords like “globohomo” now but it definitely first reared its ugly head in the 50s and 60s
one of my top 5 kinos of ALL time. no matter how down i am, it always makes me feel better when I watch it. such a tight script, great pacing. great atmosphere. fantastic acting. 2.5 hrs goes by so fast. I love heist movies, and I love card shark movies. 11/10
WARNING: Women are absolutely baffled by the sting. If watching alongside one then hope they tuned out and are looking at their phone for the last 15 minutes or you'll have a lot of splaining to do.
Lol same. Every time I'm visiting for Christmas we watch it. Even now I'm still noticing new little things in the background since there's so much going on in some of these scenes that were put together so well.
On the other hand it fell flat with my ex who was actually the bigger kinophile than me, so maybe there'd be more truth in it if he said it's a "modern women don't get it" thing. But that could just come down to not understanding horse betting, which I can't really fault nowadays
I know.
>not a single bee in the entire film
What a fricking waste.
It's about learning to bee yourself
I just watched The Conversation a few days ago and it was incredible.
Why was the 70s such a good decade for movies?
censorship boards lost a lot of their power, boomers were finally "adults" but not old crusty Reaganite types yet, and so you had a lot of directors willing to try new shit
in between the hays code and movies become way more expensive and corporate
Because it was back when Boomers were cool and making good things, when they were actually countercultural.
Old Hollywood died and their monopoly power to manipulate productions died. 70's producers and directors had more creative freedom than any point since the 20's.
Honestly the Blockbuster Era is overdue for its own death.
Studio system emerges in the late 20's. Loses its Monopoly in the late 50's. Is functionally dead by the 70s. 40ish years.
Meanwhile the New Hollywood types had all gone corporate in the 80's because of Star Wars/Jaws success and things like the Twilight Zone deaths and Heaven's Gate flopping ending the more auteur era, 40ish years ago.
Best case scenario is this current iteration of Hollywood bleeds of money until its dead and we get another creative driven era, for a little while at least.
We kind of had a quiet renaissance in the 90s and 00s, with the rise of affordable NLE and decent quality consumer cameras
There's that and there's some democratization from shooting digitally / tape before that. But what sits at the top of the food chain since the 80's is the blockbuster and meanwhile the mid budget film has gone progressively extinct since the 90s leaving a totally bifurcated ecosystem between colossal Hollywood shit and the independents. Like little proto-rats darting around in the shadows while the Dinosaurs still rule the planet.
Greater director control. Hollywood studios were panicking in the 60s because people weren’t watching movies anymore so they just let anyone with an interesting idea make stuff hoping for a hit.
>Why was the 70s such a good decade for movies?
There was a lot of dogshit that came out in the 70s.
You see Hollywood falling directly in line with Washington DC in the late 30s through the 40s. Probably the majority of movies were pro-war/Anti-German propaganda, complete with advertisements for war bonds. This includes many widely lauded films like Key Largo and Casablanca. I could probably stand it if they were fun movies to watch but they simply aren't. I watched Hitchwiener's Lifeboat tonight and it was such dogshit when a few years earlier (and later) he was making actually decent pictures. I believe this was to get back into society's good graces after being repudiated with the Hayes code. One of the many coincident developments that effectively amounted to the intensification of apparati of mass control in modern societies.
>le upvote
because you don't remember/haven't seen all the shit ones made in that decade
Top tier taste. Newman, Redford and Hackman are fantastic
is that Robert Redfern from the Marvel's the Winter Soldier?
Yes
It WAS
didn't aged well imo
Anyway it's better than any other movie from last forty years.
>didn't aged well imo
Bullshit it is still awesome.
YA FOLLA?
It's on of my all time favorite movies but the soundtrack is literally from the wrong era. Seriously
Not enough rap music for you?
This, the 1930s is not the 1900s. The soundtrack to something like Chinatown would have been more fitting for the era, but on the other hand it’s not a gritty neo noir either so jazz wouldn’t have fit too well. Well I guess they just needed something to sound old to the audiences of the 70s, which is interesting because probably a lot of if not most people who saw The Sting would have remembered the 1930s firsthand just like people remember the 1980s today.
I was just thinking about this before I even saw the thread
Correct year soundtrack
We need more kino set in the 30s. WWI lost America its innocence (if it ever had it), bur WWII it seems lost America something more intangible, it’s like the country lost its character afterwards. We talk about buzzwords like “globohomo” now but it definitely first reared its ugly head in the 50s and 60s
one of my top 5 kinos of ALL time. no matter how down i am, it always makes me feel better when I watch it. such a tight script, great pacing. great atmosphere. fantastic acting. 2.5 hrs goes by so fast. I love heist movies, and I love card shark movies. 11/10
I feel like I need to rewatch it or if I just wasn't in the mood but I didn't feel too impressed when I saw it recently
its a good movie, you should rewatch it
you're right. i've loved everything i've seen with Paul Newman like Cool Hand Luke.
WARNING: Women are absolutely baffled by the sting. If watching alongside one then hope they tuned out and are looking at their phone for the last 15 minutes or you'll have a lot of splaining to do.
I was introduced to this movie by my mother.
Lol same. Every time I'm visiting for Christmas we watch it. Even now I'm still noticing new little things in the background since there's so much going on in some of these scenes that were put together so well.
On the other hand it fell flat with my ex who was actually the bigger kinophile than me, so maybe there'd be more truth in it if he said it's a "modern women don't get it" thing. But that could just come down to not understanding horse betting, which I can't really fault nowadays
I tried to show it to my 21 yo zoomer gf and she said it was ok
🙁
Weird, just watched this last night with my gf (she loved it, never seen before)
the ferrari guy in the fast and the furious 'discovered' the script of the sting
It's really good, but was it Best Picture good? I don't think so. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was better.
what the FRICK were they thinking casting this uggo?