Review-O-Sphere

 To see part 1, click here . Of Mice and Men Suite~Mark Isham - Of Mice and Men According to cinephiles, 1939 was the greatest year of the 20th Century. (According to people living in China and Poland, it was probably one of the worst.) As mentioned earlier, 1939 was the culmination of 1930s Hollywood and this wasn’t a feat just limited to Gone With the Wind . If you look at the rundown, the number of classic films that came out this year is freaking insane. Just about every film even nominated for the Oscar is considered a masterpiece, the sheer number of classics is legendary and the Great Depression was finally (somewhat) winding down so audiences had more money to spend on the movies than ever before. While calling any year the single best year for film is a tall order (I personally think both 1976 and 1999 could give it a run for its money), it’s still notable. As a result, this might be a longer chapter as we have a ton of films that were nominated, great ones that weren’t ...

  Gone With the Wind Suite~Max Steiner - Gone With the Wind There’s a way of examining American cultural history by stating that each decade sort of has its own distinctive and easily identifiable culture that changes around the turn of the decade. While it’s not really a hard and fast rule as you won’t notice that much of a change overnight (for those that remember it, was 2010 really all that different from 2009?), you could definitely see the change when comparing the two as a whole (compare the 2000s to the 2010s and you’ll notice distinct cultural differences in America at the time). The same applies to filmmaking and, more specifically, Hollywood’s way of filmmaking which has distinct changes from decade to decade. Gone With the Wind was the culmination of 1930s Hollywood. Everything that has been mentioned about filmmaking in the 1930s came to a climax here. The soapy romances, the new type of acting brought on by the talkies, the epic sets, the new technologies that we...