The Big Picture: Hollywood History 101: Part 3

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Dammit, next week can't come any quicker!

 

[Hungry Donner]

I'm curious to see if the gaming industry goes through this same phase in the next 5-10 years.

 

[SlothfulCobra]

It's really neat to hear about this stuff. I know nothing about movies, and these tales of the history of popular culture are fascinating. It's a big change from moviebob's normal, highly opinionated stuff.

I suppose it may be natural, if not fundamentally necessary for creative industries to go through cycles like this, growing, stagnating, and ultimately being ripped apart by the new generation.

 

[Swifteye]

Whoo woah. So much info. I Love it. Where will this series go next? Ya know besides into the ominous title that the really ugly stuff infers?

 

[Uszi]

Crap, Bob, for the first time I'm on the edge of my seat for the next episode.

And it's 6 days and 23 hours away.

 

[daxterx2005]

next week is going to be about remakes/reboots/prequels right?

 

[Daniel Floyd]

These have been some of my favorite episodes so far. Thanks for the education!

 

[Cowabungaa]

You know what I find really interesting? The fact that the gaming industry is getting their own version of the "movie brats". While not driven by an economic crisis (as the game industry is still going strong), it won't take long before the gaming industry too becomes dominated by the first generations to have been brought up with videogames as a major staple in their lives, when it was no longer a novelty. A generation that for the first time gets the opportunity to seriously study videogames in school.

I hope we'll get a comparable Renaissance as the movie industry got during the 70's. It'll be different, seeing as the videogame industry isn't driven by a big economic crisis, but I hope it'll change at least something for the best.

 

[trooper6]

Good episode...though I was sad to see any of the Sidney Poitier movies excluded from the list of greats of the 70s (especially considering that list included films from the late 60s).

I can't wait for next week...and I'm hoping that "The Bad Stuff," rather than pandering to the nostalgic attitude that "everything sucks now but was great back then..." it will cover a long view of Bad Stuff: Girl 27, Hayes Code, the Blacklist, etc.

But I'm looking forward to finding out!

 

[pepitko]

Great history episodes so far Bob, well done. It's very educational, yet very interesting at the same time. I'm actually surprised at how things developed over time in Hollywood, never really paid attention to history of the place before.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

And now we're pretty much back where we started.

 

[King Toasty]

I'm really loving this. I've never learned about this stuff anywhere, and now I am! Hurray for learning!

 

[wooty]

The Big Picture is gradually becoming my favourite series on this site.

It things like this and Extra Credits that really make you think and also provide you with some some great pub ammo. Keep it up Mr Chipman.

 

[ExtraDebit]

Thanks movie bob for another great episode, very informative, enlightening and at the sametime entertaining.

 

[hermes]

I'm curious to see if the gaming industry goes through this same phase in the next 5-10 years.

I was thinking the same thing. After all, we are about to get to an age were adults making games have experience them for most of their life (although I guess the bar for entry is higher for games than for movies)

I find this series of episodes quite fascinating. Not that I didn't know some of this stuff, but its really good to see it in such an orderly fashion.

 

[JehuBot]

Goddamn it ! now I'll have to wait for next week for the bitter conclusion ! T_T

 

[Varya]

This brings to mind something I read/heard/saw a documentary/dreamed up somewhere. They did a study in languages of slaves, namely, slaves with different languages, forced together in a society. In the first generation, they would develop a vocabulary to communicate, but they had no grammar. However, the second generation would develop a complex grammar without it actually being in the language to begin with. This, maybe, is also true for the movie-industry. The first generation of movie-makers could use the vocabulary of movies, but the second developed and sued a "grammar".

 

[ManupBatman]

Freakin emotional rollercoaster.

Started with the facist society that looked very pretty from the outside, saw that kingdom fall, saw a rebellion in this episode that created a beautiful kingdom, and now we have a cliffhanger that foreshadows dark times ahead. There should be a hollywood movie about hollywood.

 

[Plurralbles]

Slim jim ads are back.

"only one password manilla ad... panic... chaos... indeed.

Overall I freakin' loved your vid though. All the crap is totally worth going through for your words, bob.

 

[PrinceofPersia]

And now we're pretty much back where we started.

Crash 2.0 here we come! Seriously though great job Bob keeping all of this interesting and presenting it with such a short amount of time. I wonder what the ugly stuff entails? That got me curious.