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reluctantly fall
Jasen 2022-04-23 07:01:36
If viewed as a romance, artist George Valentine has a happy ending. From the perspective of mourning silent films, the art of silent films is helpless and swept into the corner of history. Modern film art is a triumph of technology and a choice of the market. When an art chooses the widest group of people as its audience, it can only abandon the profound and tactful, and instead embrace the simple and direct. No one thinks that an oil painting can't speak or a sculpture can't move, because this is a niche art, and they only choose people who can appreciate them. The audience for the film is the general public, who covet lightheartedness rather than intellectual and aesthetic refinement. Their tastes are changing all the time, no matter old love or new love, they can only give short-term satisfaction, so silent films, black and white films were replaced by sound and color films respectively, and they were also or will be replaced by more advanced and exciting technology, Stereo, IMAX, 3D. . .
Extended Reading
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Peppy Miller: [trying to pressure the studio into letting her do a film with George] I won't work anymore. It's either him or me.
[Zimmer appears bemused]
Peppy Miller: What I mean is, it's him AND me! Or it's neither of us!
[everybody is still looking at her blankly]
Peppy Miller: Hey, I'm blackmailing you! Get it?
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Al Zimmer: Perfect! Beautiful! Could you give me just one more?
George Valentin: With pleasure.