This is a question I have wanted to know for years: where is the originality in cinema? It feels like the great movies of the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s are long gone. I mean the level of originality in moviemaking in those decades were amazing. I mean you had films like “Public Enemy,” “Gone With the Wind,” “Casablanca,” “Double Indemnity,” “A Star is Born,” “The Graduate,” “In the Heat of the Night,” “Guess Who is Coming to Dinner,” “The Godfather,” “Taxi Driver,” “Jaws,” “The Exorcist” and so many others are iconic.
It felt like Hollywood and its writers cared about making movies that stood out, went against the norm and delivered something to audiences that we’ve never seen before. Today, not so much, it seems everything we see is an adaptation of a TV show, a Broadway musical, a remake of a classic, a sequel or a reboot to a movie that quite honestly doesn’t need a remake or a reboot. The biggest craze right now feels like delivering sequels to movies that are nearly 20-30 years old or giving the audience what they think is a ‘fresh take’ on things.
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