“Eeewwww! Black and white movies!” With today’s high definition, bright colors, stunning special affects, surround sound, and fast plots, old Hollywood classics seem to be all but forgotten and lost by the main populous. However, what is out of sight, is by no means, out of mind!
People love quotes, there’s a whole section on facebook for your favorite quotes. They come up every where, game shows, newer movies, and even (gasp) in everyday conversation! Many of these quotes just so happen to come from those dreaded black and white movies, so people are quoting the very movies they just dissed! So what happened? Terms of speech, often stem from movies, so people are quoting movies (well people don’t know where half the things they say come from anyway, but that’s really beside the point) without even realizing it.
Movies have become part of our society. Centuries of old had books and plays, and while we have them too, we also have movies. Movies can give us great insight to the times in which they were made, but that’s really beside the point too. What we really care about right now is how those movies shape not only our vocabulary, but perhaps even more than that.
While some movies are just cinematic “cotton candy” that make people feel good, there are many movies that deal with real problems and truly have an impact on people’s opinions and even some of those “cotton candy“ movies have more impact than we realize. While a lot of people today may not have seen those movies, their parents or grandparents did, and since it shaped yesterdays society, it has shaped today’s.
While everyone has their own preferences, you can’t just count out a movie just because it’s “old.” If we always discount old things (well besides discounting all the knowledge that previous generations have collected and so starting out from square one, every generation) like Shakespeare and such, we are putting things in an all around stereotype, and that’s just being prejudice! Judge movies because you’ve seen them, not because they were made before you were born.
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