Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Specifically about the Hollywood style of screenwriting and production, across its various eras, and which films best encapsulate it.
For example, I'm coming to believe that Casablanca might be peak Hollywood, if Hollywood had to be represented by a single film, which isn't really a controversial opinion.
The more I watch it, the more I think it lives up to the hype. Its a rare example in that sense, in that its held up as a golden standard of dialogue and story, in the Hollywood sense of those things, and it actually manages to consistently live up to those standards over multiple viewings, in my opinion. Seen it maybe 8 times by now.
Other examples which I think live up to this kind of hype, according to Hollywood standards, are Chinatown, maybe some of the screwball comedies like His Girl Friday or The Philadelphia Story, maybe Double Indemnity (I'd need to rewatch that one again to be sure), etc. Some people say 1939 was the golden year of Hollywood.
By the Hollywood standard, I specifically mean the formulaic plot structure that undergirds many/most Hollywood movies, drawing from the hero's journey narrative structure and adjusted by industry moguls like Syd Field and Christopher Riley into a reliable, production-ready template for an engaging film.
I'm mainly talking about films produced in Hollywood or by Hollywood, but the style itelf has obviously been exported successfully and riffed on in other cultures (e.g. Breathless), and has exerted perhaps the deepest influence on the medium, of all film movements/industries. Many of the leading examples of Hollywood films were directed by emigres, like Curtiz.
For example, I'm coming to believe that Casablanca might be peak Hollywood, if Hollywood had to be represented by a single film, which isn't really a controversial opinion.
The more I watch it, the more I think it lives up to the hype. Its a rare example in that sense, in that its held up as a golden standard of dialogue and story, in the Hollywood sense of those things, and it actually manages to consistently live up to those standards over multiple viewings, in my opinion. Seen it maybe 8 times by now.
Other examples which I think live up to this kind of hype, according to Hollywood standards, are Chinatown, maybe some of the screwball comedies like His Girl Friday or The Philadelphia Story, maybe Double Indemnity (I'd need to rewatch that one again to be sure), etc. Some people say 1939 was the golden year of Hollywood.
By the Hollywood standard, I specifically mean the formulaic plot structure that undergirds many/most Hollywood movies, drawing from the hero's journey narrative structure and adjusted by industry moguls like Syd Field and Christopher Riley into a reliable, production-ready template for an engaging film.
I'm mainly talking about films produced in Hollywood or by Hollywood, but the style itelf has obviously been exported successfully and riffed on in other cultures (e.g. Breathless), and has exerted perhaps the deepest influence on the medium, of all film movements/industries. Many of the leading examples of Hollywood films were directed by emigres, like Curtiz.