Perhaps I shouldn't blog about this.
For the past few weeks I've been trying to come up with at least three instances of how not having newspapers would hinder some of our favorite movies.
I havent' been doing too too well, but here are .... well, at least three cinematic/sitcom-based reasons why newspapers can not die.
1. The crazies - How in the world would movies such as the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind even be cool without crazies clipping out secret codes, conspiracy theories and such in the headlines and text of newspapers? In A Beautiful Mind, and many other great movies, the main character's wife is horrified to find the walls of her husband's office covered in circled newspaper clippings of conspiracies and meaningless codes.
2. The spin (literally) - EXTRA! EXTRA! WITHOUT NEWSPAPERS MANY MOVIES WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO LET THE AUDIENCE KNOW THAT SOMETHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED!...SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT THAT THE THING THAT HAPPENED HAS TO BE SHOWN IN A HUGE ALL-CAPS HEADLINE ON THE FRONT PAGE OF A NEWSPAPER THAT SPINS AT THE VIEWER!!!!
3. The trip down memory lane - Don't ask me why (of maybe you can blame the Nyquil...I was very ill), but last week I watched the movie Above the Rim. It's a terrible movie, but it reminded me of yet another reason why we (or at least films) shouldn't let all newspapers die: How are the main characters who are looking for redemption in movies supposed to take the viewer down memory lane if they don't have any collected newspaper clippings to refer to?....ESPECIALLY! sports figures?
.....my point exactly.
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And--let me science geek for a minute--how would people be educated enough about math and science in general, in the case of a beautiful mind, to really appreciate how beautiful Nash's mind really was?
ReplyDeleteAnd if they remake Back to the Future, how will they know when the future has been altered without a shot of a newspaper headline dissolving into something else?
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