Ever since the world began, stories have been all around. But it wasn’t until a new animal species, with the ability of developing thoughts, appeared that those stories were finally told. That’s how storytelling was born.
As times goes by those stories were included in books and those books were turned into films. Cinema became a pure form of joy for the people who wanted to run away from the real world and enjoy a new reality for two hours.
The action of watching movies has experienced quite a change. At the beginning, silent movies were accompanied by a piano, then, in 1927, the cinema world was revolutionized with the introduction of sound.
Nowadays we can literally ‘live’ the movie with the 3D and 4DX systems which allow us to go into the movie and go through a whole new experience.
It goes without saying all those important improvements have changed the way of making movies, but has it been for the better? That’s a hard question to give a simple answer.
Money has always been the milestone of the film industry, but it seems that, on these days, it doesn’t matter the quality of filmmaking but the box office the film will make worldwide. Producers spend a large quantity of money and they want a profit, that’s the reason why we are fed up with seeing sequels of successful blockbusters such as Star Wars or Harry Potter. Cinema ‘guardians of money’ know what works with the audience and they’re not willing to take the risk of investing in new products, which are, in fact, far more interesting.
However, we, as an audience, don’t need to worry, Cinema is know as the Seventh Art for a reason and even when it’s suffering from a lack and decline of ideas it will rise as a phoenix.
Will see if platforms as Netflix change the film paradigm when it comes to create audiovisual products. Roma, a native Netflix production, could make history and become the first film produced by this kind of platform to win an Oscar in the main categories of the Academy Awards.
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