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About the art of our Era, the past and the future.- есе /opinion essay/
During
the last 20 years the sphere of cinematography came to the stage of
high budget film producing. Money is spent on constructing decorations,
paying off the contracts of world stars or for magnificent computer
effects. But is it all for the sake of art? As a rule, cinema pieces
produced for provoking thoughts and brain work has nothing to do with
high budgeting. So, what is the border between budget and idea? How
much money can be spent on a good picture? The question of time is also
very important. Until 1990s the audience paid much attention to so
called artistically proper films. But now we may ask anyone under 30
about which films made the greatest impression on him, and he would
necessarily name the eternal list: the Matrix, the Lord of the Rings,
Titanic, Avatar, Spider-man, X-men and so on and so forth. One wouldn’t
argue about the quality of the pictures. It is of no doubt that a
picture having a budget higher that $100 mln is a standard of high
artistic manner and cinema art. Everything is perfect, everyone is in
awe. It seems that these films are out of deep sense, but we shouldn’t
forget about their main aim – to relax the viewer’s mind and to evoke
emotions in him. We don’t notice that, but the main reason why we buy
tickets for million dollars projects is to deep into the world of
fantasy and to make the adrenaline appear in our blood. But there is
another side about this topic.
Let’s recollect what heritage we’ve received through the last 500 years. Masterpieces of Leonardo, Rafael, Picasso, literature pieces by Tolstoy, Pushkin and Shakespeare, magnificent music by Beethoven, Mozart and Paganini. All these things have two functions – they entertain and make us think at the same time. It’s a pleasant symbiosis of major art aims. But what would people recollect in 500 years from now? The art of our era is cinematography. It seems that having Avatar as a world culture legacy casts gloom thoughts over us. Many pessimists believe that today’s art makes the population of the Earth more stupid. Of course, there are thousands who would prefer watching Tarkovsky and Kim Ki-duk, but there are millions who would prefer watching Stone, Cameron, Zemeckis and others. The only conclusion that we can make to explain the situation is that in the 19th century there also were thousands who were reading Tolstoy’s books. Others were illiterate. Nowadays this balance is the same. So, let the entertainment cinematography live to keep the intellectual units in the society. Nothing bad will happen, this is the order that our world and its culture should follow. There is no place for pessimism. There is no place for panic. | |
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