Used to teach film history, so I've seen it a hundred times before--the syndrome where you show them something like The Godfather and they go: Man, what a rip-off.
It's still not a reaction that makes sense to me; I find that really amazing art, whether visual or cinematic or literary, does not lose its effectiveness even after it's become a cultural cornerstore and been imitated, quoted, homaged into infinity: otherwise no one would ever bother to watch Casablanca anymore.
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Date: 2009-02-17 03:05 am (UTC)It's still not a reaction that makes sense to me; I find that really amazing art, whether visual or cinematic or literary, does not lose its effectiveness even after it's become a cultural cornerstore and been imitated, quoted, homaged into infinity: otherwise no one would ever bother to watch Casablanca anymore.