Monday, July 23, 2012
When Popular Culture Caught Up to the Way We Live Now
WSJ.com: It's said that most Americans under the age of 30 reflexively dislike movies made before 1970, especially those that were shot in black-and-white. If this is so, I suspect it's because such films portray an America that no longer exists. Those of us who are a couple of decades older than that well up with intense nostalgia at the sight of that reassuringly familiar place, even the uncomfortable districts that harbored desperate souls hurtling toward a rendezvous with film-noir death. After all, that's the place where we grew up. For those under 30, though, black-and-white America is an impenetrably strange land peopled with creatures who look like human beings but live in a parallel universe of fedoras, dial telephones, three-channel TV sets and more or less nuclear families.
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My negative opinion towards black and white movies is not that I dislike because they are dated and I can not relate to the subject, it is simply that they are black and white. The color gives me a greater sense of emotion and personality in characters and provides a wider range of scenery and lighting than in black and white movie. My dislike for black and white movies is not related to content, it is visual aesthetic, alone.
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