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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Look at cinema. There's a new "mumblecore" movement with the advent of digital cameras, but the same basic themes and emotions are conveyed as films have conveyed for nearly 100 years.
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It's always worth going back over this one: the basic human 'theme' of having emotions is pretty much eternal. I'm of the opinion that you'll find nearly nothing in bleeding-edge '09 cinema that you couldn't find in, say, Euripedes. This truism neither invalidates nor exalts either art. I often find that things that try to be 'new' miss the point that art should be good
first, and then it's allowed to be groundbreaking.
Before anyone asks, yes, I do make the rules.