Does anyone else do this, when watching old movies? (films, scene, actors)
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The first thing I think of is that everything and everyone in the movie is dead.
I'm watching a 1956 movie right now, and there are animals and people and they are all dead, dead, dead. It kind of spoils the movie for me. I want to watch a movie for entertainment, not to be reminded of my own mortality.
I've actually had that thought before. A better way to look at it is to think about how those people legacy continues to live on with their movies. Even after 50 years people are still watching their movies.
Do you feel the same way when you listen to a song or album by someone who is dead?
The first thing I think of is that everything and everyone in the movie is dead.
I'm watching a 1956 movie right now, and there are animals and people and they are all dead, dead, dead. It kind of spoils the movie for me. I want to watch a movie for entertainment, not to be reminded of my own mortality.
LOL. Yes I have. I never knew anyone else did that.
Death comes to us all.
When I watch an old movie where everyone in it is deceased, it's a sort of immortality for them. I think about the actors in their other movies when they were younger or older sometimes as I watch.
The thoughts don't take away the power of a good story, though. Every one of the leading actors in the 1939 version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame is gone now, but I still love watching the movie!
Reminds me of a play I saw once where characters were coming into the living room every couple minutes, peering at an imaginary TV screen and saying, "He's dead," "Isn't he dead?" "I thought he was dead," and so on. Very deadpan funny.
You know most of the old films I watch I've liked. I figure I'm missing hundreds if not thousands!...;-)...for sure there's some real good stuff out there just waiting to be watched.
I always notice the changes in technology when watching older movies. For example, any movie where there is a scene in an office, there are no computers on anyone's desk prior to around 1982. There are ashtrays on desks and people smoking in staff meetings. People using pay phones, no cell phones.
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