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Scott Sumner: prediction

8 Jan 2025 Conversations with Tyler Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema

“I don’t know if there’ll be classics like It’s a Wonderful Life and that sort of classic, but I think films by Wes Anderson may hold up well because his style is so distinctive, his visual style especially.”

— Scott Sumner

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Scott Sumner
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8 Jan 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…It’s quite unlikely, yes. Yes, extremely unlikely. Philip Glass had real impact on me, the early works. Not equal to Bach or Beethoven, of course, but it shook my world when I heard Einstein on the Beach and some of the other operas. It was genuinely new. It’s held up. I think people still love it, and 50 years from now, it will still be with us. There were some things in classical music, if Glass is even that, and certainly in popular music there’s been plenty, not in the last 10, 15 years, but pretty recently. Yes, I think so. You asked what might hold up. I don’t know if there’ll be classics like It’s a Wonderful Life and that sort of classic, but I think films by Wes Anderson may hold up well because his style is so distinctive, his visual style especially. Christopher Nolan, what’s your view there?…

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