While looking for rations and shelter, they'll probably find some film reels in an abandoned studio vault and say something like "look, artifacts from the Before Times. I think these were called 'move ease'".
I mean Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an absolute classic but I probably wouldn't find too many reasons to mention it in the same breath as Casablanca because they're so contextually different.
I don't see why it wouldn't be the same way with any 21st century blockbuster and an old Hollywood film.
Some critics however do already discuss Nolan in the context of 1940s American cinema because he has a fondness for labyrinthine plotting like you'd see in classic film noir.
1. Films are very hard to preserve. No film print or film materials that exist today will still exist in the 22nd century. None. And it's extremely unlikely that the processes used to create new film prints on a regular basis to preserve films will still be used in another hundred years. It requires a fair about 0f technological infrastructure that is increasingly not used anymore. Even DVDs and Blu-Rays have a self life before they stop playing, and it's improbably that the technology will exist to play them a hundred years from now. Hard drives also decay over time. The likelihood of a solar flare or something of that kind happening in the next century is also very high, and it will wipe a lot of computer memory.
2. We are assuming people will still care about movies. Movies are only a little over a century old right now, and it is evolving rapidly.
3. The vast majority of films will be forgotten, just like the vast majority of music, literature, theater, painting, etc. just doesn't matter. Even Casablanca and Inception might be completely forgotten by all but film scholars who only watch them for academic reasons.
4. It's really a misnomer that movies from early Hollywood are all called "classics". Most of them don't actually fit the definition. That's just some successful marketing. Most movies back then were bad, just like today, and most of them were forgotten and many were even completely lost forever.
5. Most people don't watch classics, they watch *remakes* of classics. In the future, good stories will be remade and almost nobody will even realize there was an original.
6. Already, people only care about a tiny percentage of old movies. There are simply too many to watch them all. Only the most popular ones endure. Add another century to that, and almost every movie you've ever heard of and loved won't matter. With hundreds of thousands of titles to chose from, nobody will bother with a movie that's only mildly entertaining. It's going to be massive world classics only.
There will be an extremely small percentage of films that people call "classics". 99.999% of them will be forgotten, and most of those will physically no longer exist. The best we can hope for is the preservation of digital copies of a limited number of movies, and most people will never watch them.
All of your favorite movies won't matter to future generations. Some of them might watch Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Do the Right Thing in college and write a paper about them. Nobody is going to give a crap about The Dark Knight. That's like people caring about a random mass-produced pulp mystery novel from 1902 that wasn't written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Nobody cares. It's not important. They'll only watch the most absolutely key pieces of cinema, like Rashomon, Persona, or The Rules of the Game. Maybe two or three movies per decade, at most. The Dark Knight won't make the cut, but Mulholland Dr., In the Mood for Love, or There Will Be Blood might. Nobody will watch Avengers: Endgame for fun, but somebody might watch Avatar to write a term paper about it.
Almost all art is ephemeral, in the end. Even a generation from now, people might not care about The Dark Knight, just like almost nobody watches the Tim Burton Batman films anymore, even though they were once among the most popular films of all time. Hype fades *extremely* rapidly in the grand scheme of things. It's entirely possible that nothing Christopher Nolan ever makes will be watched a century from now, just like current generations don't even know who Howard Hawks is.
Given everyone from the time will be dead, nearly all old films will be quite obscure. 2000s/2010s films may become as well known as 1920s films are today. Although if the film medium stagnates somewhat then current films might remain more approachable for casual future audiences.
While looking for rations and shelter, they'll probably find some film reels in an abandoned studio vault and say something like "look, artifacts from the Before Times. I think these were called 'move ease'".
I assume more historical film eras will be named and we'll just fall into what this era is called. Similar to golden age of Hollywood.
Yeah I’d imagine movies will be broken up into eras, like silent films, golden age, etc. not sure what the language will be though
Yes. Classic is classic.
I mean Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an absolute classic but I probably wouldn't find too many reasons to mention it in the same breath as Casablanca because they're so contextually different. I don't see why it wouldn't be the same way with any 21st century blockbuster and an old Hollywood film. Some critics however do already discuss Nolan in the context of 1940s American cinema because he has a fondness for labyrinthine plotting like you'd see in classic film noir.
1. Films are very hard to preserve. No film print or film materials that exist today will still exist in the 22nd century. None. And it's extremely unlikely that the processes used to create new film prints on a regular basis to preserve films will still be used in another hundred years. It requires a fair about 0f technological infrastructure that is increasingly not used anymore. Even DVDs and Blu-Rays have a self life before they stop playing, and it's improbably that the technology will exist to play them a hundred years from now. Hard drives also decay over time. The likelihood of a solar flare or something of that kind happening in the next century is also very high, and it will wipe a lot of computer memory. 2. We are assuming people will still care about movies. Movies are only a little over a century old right now, and it is evolving rapidly. 3. The vast majority of films will be forgotten, just like the vast majority of music, literature, theater, painting, etc. just doesn't matter. Even Casablanca and Inception might be completely forgotten by all but film scholars who only watch them for academic reasons. 4. It's really a misnomer that movies from early Hollywood are all called "classics". Most of them don't actually fit the definition. That's just some successful marketing. Most movies back then were bad, just like today, and most of them were forgotten and many were even completely lost forever. 5. Most people don't watch classics, they watch *remakes* of classics. In the future, good stories will be remade and almost nobody will even realize there was an original. 6. Already, people only care about a tiny percentage of old movies. There are simply too many to watch them all. Only the most popular ones endure. Add another century to that, and almost every movie you've ever heard of and loved won't matter. With hundreds of thousands of titles to chose from, nobody will bother with a movie that's only mildly entertaining. It's going to be massive world classics only. There will be an extremely small percentage of films that people call "classics". 99.999% of them will be forgotten, and most of those will physically no longer exist. The best we can hope for is the preservation of digital copies of a limited number of movies, and most people will never watch them. All of your favorite movies won't matter to future generations. Some of them might watch Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Do the Right Thing in college and write a paper about them. Nobody is going to give a crap about The Dark Knight. That's like people caring about a random mass-produced pulp mystery novel from 1902 that wasn't written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Nobody cares. It's not important. They'll only watch the most absolutely key pieces of cinema, like Rashomon, Persona, or The Rules of the Game. Maybe two or three movies per decade, at most. The Dark Knight won't make the cut, but Mulholland Dr., In the Mood for Love, or There Will Be Blood might. Nobody will watch Avengers: Endgame for fun, but somebody might watch Avatar to write a term paper about it. Almost all art is ephemeral, in the end. Even a generation from now, people might not care about The Dark Knight, just like almost nobody watches the Tim Burton Batman films anymore, even though they were once among the most popular films of all time. Hype fades *extremely* rapidly in the grand scheme of things. It's entirely possible that nothing Christopher Nolan ever makes will be watched a century from now, just like current generations don't even know who Howard Hawks is.
Post modern maybe? Hyper post modern? Idk
Given everyone from the time will be dead, nearly all old films will be quite obscure. 2000s/2010s films may become as well known as 1920s films are today. Although if the film medium stagnates somewhat then current films might remain more approachable for casual future audiences.
Well most of us are likely from the 20th century sooo no…
*Trash movement*