In modern times, doing what’s called a “one shot” is considered a challenge. That’s where you stretch a single shot as long as you can and try to get as much action into it within one take and without any cuts. Back then, it was the norm.
I won’t go into how much I hate 21st century movies; all of them without exception. They’re all indicative of a narcissistic, infant-minded society on the brink of collapse.
To give you an idea: watch a real 70’s movie. Everybody was mature, had a clue, knew who they were, had a life. They were autonomous adults.
Now watch one of the many hundreds of wannabe 70’s movies today. There’s that new Disco movie, for instance. Notice that every actor in it is a feeble adult child vying to make their libarts-construct of their self align with reality but reality isn’t budging. Watching these actors pathetically try to emulate people with real personalities such as those in the 70’s is like watching elementary kids putting on a play. Taping a fake beard to your face and wearing a craft-paper stovepipe hat doesn’t make you Abe Lincoln. You still look like a kid trying to fill dad’s patent leather shoes and coat.
Jodie Foster was about twelve when she acted in Taxi Driver. I have never met anybody in their twenties as mature as that in this century. At this point, I can start pushing that statement to include most people in their thirties. Even young Macaulay Culkin was a better more convincing actor than anybody in their thirties or forties today.
Another post here reminded me of a sad fact of today’s tech. Satellites are polluting our night sky. I can go out around 9:30 on almost any night and see a highway interchange of orbital traffic. There’s so many going in every direction. Most of my time lapse photos catch at least one if not three. When I was a kid, maybe I saw “a” satellite if I was looking hard enough for long enough. Now it’s impossible to focus on the empty vastness out there without interlopers. There is really no more sanctuary.
