It used to be better? How nostalgia affects the perception of cinema. Discussed in the Caretaker podcast
Miscellaneous / / September 08, 2021
The presenters are figuring out if it's so bad to watch only old films and ignore new ones.
When a modern film product is not at all happy, viewers find consolation in the past. Old films are pleasant to watch: previously hot topics have cooled down, funny fashion has passed, the actors are young. But such escapism is actually not as beautiful as it might seem.
In this episode of the "Watchman" podcast, the hosts Mikhail Volnykh and Alexei Khromov discuss why you need to watch actual movies, and not get stuck in a long outdated history. analyze the pictures of the past decades and their influence on modern cinema, and also try to predict what era it will be fashionable to “yearn for” in the near future time.
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01:42 - about whether the nostalgia is so bad.
08:49 - cinematography of the 2000s: “Matrix”And other hits that changed the film industry.
15:29 - fashion for the 1980s: where did it come from and why so attracts the audience. About Stranger Things,Ready Player One"And" Kung Fury ".
21:03 - about the paradoxical love of the Russian audience for the 1990s and the positive aspects of the cinema of those years.
30:15 - about whether it is fair on the part of producers and film studios to play exclusively on the nostalgic feelings of the viewer, making a minimum of effort to create new content.
37:18 - "senile grunt" about the recent special issue "Friends": Was he even needed.
What to see on the topic
We have collected the films and TV shows mentioned in the issue:
- "Robocop", director - Paul Verhoeven, 1987.
- The Nurses, directed by John Paragon, 1994.
- Difficult Child, directed by Dennis Dugan, 1990.
- «Alone at home", Directed by Chris Columbus, 1990.
- The Matrix, directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 1999.
- Others, directed by Alejandro Amenabar, 2001.
- House Doctor, creator - David Shore, 2004-2012.
- "Clinic", creator - Bill Lawrence, 2001-2010.
- Dexter, Created by James Manos Jr. 2006-Present.
- «Very strange things», Creators - Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, 2016 - present.
- Ready Player One, director - Steven Spielberg, 2018.
- Kung Fury, directed by David Sandberg, 2015.
- "Turbo Boy", directors - Francois Simard, Anouk Vissell, Yoann-Karl Vissell, 2014.
- The Karate Kid, directed by John G. Avildsen, 1984.
- Cobra Kai Created by John Hild, Josh Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, 2018-Present.
- Ace Ventura: Pet Tracking, directed by Tom Shadyak, 1994.
- «Mask", Directed by Chuck Russell, 1994.
- Dumb and Dumber, directed by Peter Farrelli, Bobby Farrelli, 1994.
- "Private detective, or Operation" Cooperation "", director - Leonid Gaidai, 1989.
- “The weather is good on Deribasovskaya, or it is raining again on Brighton Beach”, director - Leonid Gaidai, 1992.
- "Intergirl", director - Pyotr Todorovsky, 1989.
- It, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, 1990.
- It, directed by Andres Muschetti, 2017.
- Batman Forever, directed by Joel Schumacher, 1995.
- The Dark Knight, director - Christopher Nolan, 2008.
- “How Vitka Garlic took Lyokha Shtyr to the home for the disabled”, director - Alexander Hunt, 2017.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, directed by Steve Barron, 1990.
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