WORDS WITH MR. KAUMANS
I don’t know if I already said this in an earlier article, but I consider myself a big fan of older movies from the late to early 1900s. I dunno why, I suppose there’s a certain charm to those old black-and-white movies. I’ve seen it all, from “Psycho”, “Citizen Kane”, “Vertigo”, even “It’s A Wonderful Life”. And while I may not have enough experience in the film industry to know every small detail that goes into filmmaking, I would like to tell you just why I like these old films so much.
The dialogue of these older movies is both the funniest and serious I’ve ever heard. I can’t really explain why the way people talked over sixty years ago, all I can say is that you would have to watch these movies on a regular basis to understand what it is I’m saying. Now, I’m not laughing at the way these people are speaking because I think they are moronic and weird, I simply find it amusing the way people talked back then.
Another thing I like about these older movies is the way these directors worked with what little technology they had at the time. Nowadays, we can look at these movies and laugh at how it’s obvious that the floating object in the frame is being held up by a wire, but we have to keep in mind that something like this would be considered impressive in the early-to-mid 1900s. Same can be said about the skeleton who is seemingly walking on two legs, or the vampire baring his fangs before sucking the blood out of the woman who caught his eye.
I know not all movies from that time period were perfect; just like the modern day. Many of the movies from the 1900s were either mediocre if not terribly written. But when it comes to the minority, the ones that were nearly perfect in terms of the story they were trying to tell, you can’t tell me that a lot of those can’t be found in that century. If you ever get the free time, fellow reader, I would encourage you to watch some of these classics.