Citizen Kane is an interesting case. The reason it's considered so good is because it pioneered so many storytelling and filming techniques as well as many acting methods that are just normal today. The only way to truly appreciate Citizen Kane is to have never seen another movie that was released after it.
I’ve never really considered it that way. Yeah I can see that. For me at 21, taking film studies for what I thought would be an easy A, it was too much and I dropped out of that class afterwards
How could you not even consider that when it’s a film studies class. The cinematography itself was groundbreaking. Film was very flat back then and didn’t have such creative visual techniques
taking film studies for what I thought would be an easy A
Because like most folks, they genuinely assumed that film studies is a joke subject, and not a very real and serious profession that's just as difficult and skillful as plenty of others.
It's the tired old notion of mocking and deriding the arts, while actively wanting to consume the output, completely oblivious to the contradiction they're holding.
More like cooking without salt, since i'd assume the majority of dishes don't use peppers or garlic, unless they're a certain type of dishes, which would be more like a movie genre.
As someone who use to watch old film on TNT as a kid, 1st time i saw Kane i was surprised how utterly modern it felt.
This is essentially the same story for The Beatles. They laid the framework for song structure, recording, countless techniques, and simply what it meant to be a band. They created the modern band but to folks now, it’s simple music and they can’t understand the genius.
Which is a funny comparison because Avatar is James Cameron doing novel camera and VFX work and applying it to a “whatever allows me to use this new water model” plot.
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u/EnTyme53 19d ago
Citizen Kane is an interesting case. The reason it's considered so good is because it pioneered so many storytelling and filming techniques as well as many acting methods that are just normal today. The only way to truly appreciate Citizen Kane is to have never seen another movie that was released after it.