Date: 2018-12-12 05:54 pm (UTC)
sea_changed: Black and white photo of Lauren Bacall smoking a cigarette (old hollywood; bacall)
From: [personal profile] sea_changed
I love that you list a lot of older movies--seeing how people in the past interpreted the past is always fascinating. I especially love Singin' in the Rain--for many, many reasons, but in this case particularly because of how it interprets an era that was not that long before it was made (and that a lot of people working in Hollywood in the 50s still remembered) but was in a lot of ways a whole different world.

I love Sunset Boulevard for the same reason (though obviously the tone is extremely different), and in that case it has the extra layer of much of the cast having worked in the silent era and having had careers that in some way mirrored their characters'. Watching the industry interpret its own past is fascinating.
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