>To: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>, > >Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't there plenty of "message" movies >that came out before 1963??? > >Frank Capra's films of the 1930s and early 1940s immediately come to >mind. So do Stanley Kramer's films of the 1950s and 1960s. And what >about "High Noon"? While this list is more than incomplete, these >were just a few glaring exceptions to your thesis that I came up with >off the top of my head. While they were aimed mainly towards a broad >audience and did emphasize "story", their messages still came through >quite dramatically and were definitely intrinsic to the film's appeal. > >Just a thought. > Once again, it is not my theory - it's Oliver Stone's. I just thought it was interesting. It's focus. Story-telling becomes secondary to the message in the "film" catagory. Every film/movie has a message; what is inteeresting is to notice that some focus more strongly on one or the other. Can you all deny that there was a massive change in around 1963, that the very form changed, the very style? I know there is a major difference in style and it is that that interests me. I don't want to group movies or films, but one has to start from somewhere. Boy, just have some fun with it. There's only movies :-) James