Excellent, only GW has the background combined with writing talent to tell stories like this. He's right of course, I can't remember the last movie we've seen in a theater and years back we went weekly.
One of my Dad’s favorite movies, perhaps his most favorite, was Gunga Din. He made sure I watched it with him when I was a kid, sometime back in the 1950s or 1960s.
He passed in 2009, but I still remember his excitement about certain scenes and his telling me to ‘watch carefully, this will make sense later’. And I still get a catch in my throat, every time, when Sam Jafee (as Din) climbs to the top of the tower with that bugle.
Grteat essay, MFW, and great memories. You don't often walk out of the "perfect movie" anymore. It doesn't have to be an important classic for the ages. Just something that has you smiling and talking about it for the rest of the night. "Back to the Future" certainly qualifies. So, I would argue, did "Pulp Fiction" and "The Matrix" and "Independence Day" and "Galaxy Quest." Just fun movies that packed in the storytelling.
Those (and many others I neglected to mention) were maybe the last gasp of that sort of movie experience. It seems to be a lost art. Movies just feel different somehow, either less original or less expressive or just less entertaining. Just less...
Excellent, only GW has the background combined with writing talent to tell stories like this. He's right of course, I can't remember the last movie we've seen in a theater and years back we went weekly.
One of my Dad’s favorite movies, perhaps his most favorite, was Gunga Din. He made sure I watched it with him when I was a kid, sometime back in the 1950s or 1960s.
He passed in 2009, but I still remember his excitement about certain scenes and his telling me to ‘watch carefully, this will make sense later’. And I still get a catch in my throat, every time, when Sam Jafee (as Din) climbs to the top of the tower with that bugle.
Yeah. Movies can be powerful.
*Jaffe
Awesome! My dad did the same thing for me and I’m trying to pay it forward
Grteat essay, MFW, and great memories. You don't often walk out of the "perfect movie" anymore. It doesn't have to be an important classic for the ages. Just something that has you smiling and talking about it for the rest of the night. "Back to the Future" certainly qualifies. So, I would argue, did "Pulp Fiction" and "The Matrix" and "Independence Day" and "Galaxy Quest." Just fun movies that packed in the storytelling.
Those (and many others I neglected to mention) were maybe the last gasp of that sort of movie experience. It seems to be a lost art. Movies just feel different somehow, either less original or less expressive or just less entertaining. Just less...
Yeah it's very rare... I think the last time I felt that way was maybe The Dark Knight.