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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Ever taken a film class? There are a lot of things in there that a casual viewer probably won't appreciate.
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First semester freshman year of college I took a history of film class that covered 1900-1946 (or thereabouts). So we started with Great Train Robbery and Nanook of the North and worked our way through Birth of a Nation and Battleship Potemkin, etc.
When we got to Citizen Kane, it was like watching Star Wars. Having seen the gradual development of filmmaking, with moving cameras and editing, Citizen Kane was like dropping the medium into hyperdrive -- it suddenly was light years ahead of its predecessors.
You watch it now, and it looks like any other movie, because all its techniques are so familiar. But at the time it was so bleeding revolutionary. It was breathtaking.
So, uh, yeah, I agree with Hamas.