Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Even — I’m going to sound like an old film snob here, but if I go back to the ’60s and ’70s, when you had those Kubrick and Coppola masterpieces one after another, I don’t feel like I’m seeing that now. But it’s possible that they’re out there, that I’m just missing them. Or it may be that the directors may be just as talented, but the fact that they’re coming later makes them not seem that way. They seem more derivative. You can look at the Coen brothers, clearly extremely talented directors, but if they had been on the scene 40 years earlier, would they be viewed more highly because they would have been more innovative at that time? I think so. They bore me a bit. Like, they’re fine, I agree they’re super talented, but I don’t really look forward to seeing the next thing they do. Then ask this question, though: What happened to Coppola after the ’70s? He has those four masterpieces. Why can’t he continue? He was presumably just as talented, but maybe he had just run out of ideas. My view is that cinema has evolved in a way where the more interesting directors today are ones that have sort of a more weird or edgy style, more unusual style, because the conventional masterpieces like The Godfather have already been done. So you have more quirky filmmakers like Wes Anderson, David Lynch, and so on that are pushing the envelope in kind of a mannerist direction.…

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