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Understand this, too: That nervous guy who is giving an acceptance speech for Best Black and White Short Subject, that guy whom you are hooting at in the safety of your living room as he rambles tortuously on, thanking his mother and his first-grade teacher who introduced him to the wonders of film—he may seem like a jerk to you, but you are very likely watching the high point of his life.
Movies are just these strips of celluloid running through a machine. If you can find an adequate print, The Great Train Robbery is exactly what it was when Porter directed it eighty years ago.
Right now—today—comic-book pictures are only breeding more comic-book pictures, something that has never happened to this extent before.
This was written in 1982. It’s certainly relevant in 2021.
But this summer’s three big pictures so far are E. T., Rocky III, and Star Trek II. So, for the present, I think we may as well prepare ourselves for seven more Star Wars sequels and half a dozen quests involving Indiana Jones.
He had no idea how right he would be.
