The thing about Classic Hollywood films is that like
wine, you need to develop a taste for them. Be it the romantic Breakfast at Tifanny’s and heart moving Casablanca or the legendary films by Francis Ford Copalla - Apocalypse Now and The Godfather Series, classics have marked ages of change.
Alfred Hitchcock never upset his
audiences be it with plot experiments in Birds
or film making and technique experiments in The
Rope, where the entire film used only 10 cuts, 2 of which were ‘Fade to blacks.’
‘Gone
with the Wind’ was the first film to break through the
barriers of book adaptations. MGM’s ‘That’s
Entertainment’ that traces every Metro-Glodwyn
Mayer musical starting from the 1920s with ‘Gene Kelly and Marilyn Monroe’ continues to entice the viewers
even today.
There was a rhythm to English classics. The old
jazz, deep sound tracks and the grandeur of sets and their decor all showed a
higher purpose of film making. The value of costumes and rehearsals, the callousness
shown while portraying the revolts within a community and constantly changing
society, the magnanimity of characters being established – Ah! you just cannot
compete with the classics anymore!
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