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8 Jan 2025 Conversations with Tyler Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema
“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.”
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…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. Do you think there are Hollywood movies, recent ones, that 50 years from now will be viewed as classics and still watched? I’m not sure there will be, actually. Right now, it’s Christmas season. People watch Wizard of Oz again, perhaps. I don’t myself like It’s a Wonderful Life, but I would grant it’s become a classic. Die Hard, which is pretty good, right? That’s become a sort of classic, Christmas classic. Are we producing ones like that? They’re not even the best movies, right? But they’ve lasted.…
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