26 years later and this is still one of the most important scenes in movie history.

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It's genius the way we have all come to believe that "money" actually exists...We will do anything for it, but the whole thing is just a god damn illusion that humanity props up...

The concept of money is similar that of love, they only exist, because we choose to believe that they do exist...

It's classic societal brainwashing...And anybody who stops believing, is labelled crazy and anti-societal to the point that they can't function in the world any more...

And the cycle continues...
 

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When is the last time you saw a two minute shot of dialogue, showing a range of emotions? You know, real acting, real filmmaking?

Movies are bullshyt these days. Today's "style" of 'line CUT line CUT line CUT line CUT' totally kills immersion and is a big part of why movies suck and why I stopped following cinema some years ago. You can train monkeys to do that shyt and that's probably the reason it's so prevalent.

I had this epiphany while watching Bogart just wander around talking to himself in the bushes in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. A single shot of several minutes in length, and completely enthralling because in that span of time he was able -- and afforded by the director -- to convincingly display a wide range of emotions, from despair and doubt to triumphant confidence.
 

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When is the last time you saw a two minute shot of dialogue, showing a range of emotions? You know, real acting, real filmmaking?

Movies are bullshyt these days. Today's "style" of 'line CUT line CUT line CUT line CUT' totally kills immersion and is a big part of why movies suck and why I stopped following cinema some years ago. You can train monkeys to do that shyt and that's probably the reason it's so prevalent.

I had this epiphany while watching Bogart just wander around talking to himself in the bushes in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. A single shot of several minutes in length, and completely enthralling because in that span of time he was able -- and afforded by the director -- to convincingly display a wide range of emotions, from despair and doubt to triumphant confidence.

"A touch of evil" orson welles had a similar single shot in the intro of the movie, its one of the greatest segments in movie history to me, because i know how complex it must have been to coordinate that shot.

I know exactly what you mean however. I made this weekend that just passed a movie weekend and i rented 3 "different" movies; Parker, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty. Parker of course was mindless action, but im a Jason Statham fan so i can tolerate. Zero Dark Thirty my lady fell asleep on, and Silver Linings Playbook surprisingly was the best of the 3...but would have made it a shyt ton better is if they kept the cut scenes...there was a scene where Bradley Coopers character has a monologue equating dance, and the song selection, to being in love...and the camera just focused solidly on him for 2 minutes...it was a real good 2 minutes that made know what he was feeling and what he thought love was...it was great acting i thought...but i realized why they cut it out...the audience can't take 2 plus minute monologues...

movies nowadays are being made to obviously maximize revenue, but to maximize revenue everything put in a movie is to satiate the audience. Movies are not the greatest example, but movies/art were made at one point so that you had to up your level of understanding to get it, not vice versa. There used to be a balance between nonsense and highbrow, its the reason why pbs was created or kubrick could make a "dr. Strangelove". Your gonna continue to see a devolution of media as companies try to maximize revenue and viewers demand less. I used to think that "if you build it, they will come" but if your building for the lowest come denominator, your gonna end up with art that represents that.
 
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