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Of all the teachers I’ve had in my life, I’ve always find myself talking a lot about my acting professor in college, Professor Kathryn Gately.
Of course, part of that is a bit of bragging (she did after all have students such as Amanda Seyfried and the late James Gandolfini), but one moment in time during a class stuck out to me.
While I have no proof of it, it does seem like the advent of social media has made people more hypersensitive to spoilers.
While my dad famously never wanted to know anything about the movie he was going to see aside from the start time and theater number (he did not even want to know the title), this was most apparent to me in 2019, when I saw a little movie called Avengers: Endgame. One of the biggest cinematic events of my lifetime, I was unaware of the fact that just mentioning the fact that the film dealt with time travel spoiled it (at least for a friend of mine).
When you think about it, there are some things in life you would not know about if it weren’t for certain movies.
I’m not talking about historical/biographical films, but more about films that get into the daily lives of people you never knew about.
For many a reason, I avoided a lot of horror films during the first decade of the century.
This is not to say because I was fearful, but mainly because all the films I heard I had heard of ended up being lousy (it was only until much later that I would finally go back and see the likes of the first Saw film, Let the Right One In, and some of The Conjuring films).
In the 1988 classic Cinema Paradiso, one of the last pieces of advice that Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) gives to young Salvatore (Marco Lenardi) is not to give in to nostalgia.
When one sees that movie (and one should), one realizes a sense of irony, so much of the film is about nostalgia (pumped up by an immaculate musical score by Ennio Morricone). It is this type of sentimentality that drove me to an idea of sorts as I approached 2025: my top 25 movie milestones from the first 25 years of the century.
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