Double Decadence
A few weeks ago I posted my favorite decades of the 20th century for music. Figured I should do the same for movies, though the results will be very different:
1. 30s
2. 70s
3. 20s
4. 40s
5. 60s
6. 90s
7. 80s
8. 50s
9. 10s
10. 00s
posted by LAGuy @ 12:15 AM
3 Comments:
Technology makes this a hard list - comparing the 00s-20s with the rest seems like apples and oranges - even putting aside sound, the picture quality seems very very different- much more so than than the difference between B/w and color. Evidently you think otherwise given the high ranking of the 20s)
I'm not sure what you mean by a different quality. If you mean a different style, yes, that's true, silents and talkies are different, but so are jazz and rock, and I compared them when discussing my favorite musical decades.
Meanwhile, many copies of silent films that we have are damaged, so the technical quality is often worse than for sound, but there's nothing we can do about that. But that's more like comparing old 78s to today's digital sound--better sonic quality is nice, but it's still the music that counts.
Silents had their own style and by the 1920s the best filmmakers had raised it to quite an art form. Plus that was the decade when the top silent clowns were doing their best work (for the most part), and I don't know if anyone anywhere has ever topped that.
We also lost some comments here during the purge about comparing silent movies with talkies. Oh well.
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