I meant on this board. It was actually a prediction. I guess I was taking the original intent of your statement, and broadening it. I'm talking about movies going back to the past and romanticizing it as a reaction of avoiding present times. What you said sort of hinted at my thoughts. And I would apply it to Hugo (which I've seen) and War Horse (if the previews are any indication), and also The Help.ITALIANO wrote:Sonic Youth wrote:Between 'The Artist', 'Hugo' and 'War Horse', I've had the feeling for about a week that a variation of the above comment is going to be this year's meme. "The Academy retreats into the safety of the fantastical past in order to hide from the turbulent present", or something like that. And it's probably true.ITALIANO wrote: But in a time of crisis, not only an economical crisis, a more general one, getting back to the roots of cinema and to its original "purity", through a foreign silent movie which speaks "the universal language of cinema", might be difficult for the Academy to resist to.
I hadn't read this anywhere - and I certainly wouldn't apply it to War Horse or even Hugo, from what I've heard of these two movies.
By the way, "getting back to the roots of cinema and to it's original purity" would most definitely apply to Hugo, nostalgically if not aesthetically.