Wednesday, November 4, 2009

A Little Bit Of Love

A little bit of Love

This morning I was watching an old silent movie… made in 1922… very dramatic… the camera was focusing mainly on the faces of the actors… one statement struck me…

”with a little bit of love… nobody shall have to suffer and be lost”…

I guess that is how cinema started… facial expressions and a few statements by the main actors… It is curious how the art of cinema developed…

First the development of the camera… from still photos to the movement of actors on a stage… and a few lines of text…

Then the actors were on the outdoors… creating scenes and special effects… and noises on a few lines of text…

Then came the vocal film… followed by Technicolor… making mega effects and focusing on everything…

In watching this film… I realized that Aldous Huxley was writing Brave New World in that same period… in the “Belle Époque”… after the War that will end all Wars… and before the Holocaust…

I guess we forgot these old silent movies… we even forgot Brave New World…

”with a little bit of love… nobody shall have to suffer and be lost”…

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