I. Essential Question
For my quality project, I examined the essential question of “why some movies are timeless?”. I’ve always loved watching older movies, so I decided that I would like to base my project on analyzing them. In my experience movies bring people together, a group of people experiencing the same thing at the same time. Because of this, I knew that I would like to incorporate watching my selection of movies with other people into my project. I never really understood why people often didn’t give old movies a chance. Once I asked my mother if she wanted to watch the Wizard of Oz and she agreed but later she asked, why I would ever want to see such an old movie. I wanted to share my passion for older movies with my friends to …show more content…
I read about the overall Hollywood glamour and epic scale of the production of Gone With the Wind. I learned about the massively successful on-screen adaptations of A Streetcar Named Desire and My Fair Lady. Finally, the movie that I thought was the most interesting to read about, Sunset Boulevard. This was the story of an unstable, aging, former silent film star. She was delusional and she believed that she hadn’t been forgotten by the majority of the world. She desperately seeks a “Return to Film” but will never achieve it. Meanwhile, she had fallen madly in love with a young screenwriter who had stumbled upon her house while trying to outrun repo men. This was fascinating because this movie highlighted Hollywood’s tendency to disregard older women and to trash their young stars at the slightest hint of age. This film wasn’t received well by many in the film industry, people said that the director was biting the hand that feeds him, which he was. Despite this, the public fell in love with this enticing noir romance film and it even got nominated for best picture at the 1950 academy awards but got beaten out by another timeless classic All About
For my quality project, I examined the essential question of “why some movies are timeless?”. I’ve always loved watching older movies, so I decided that I would like to base my project on analyzing them. In my experience movies bring people together, a group of people experiencing the same thing at the same time. Because of this, I knew that I would like to incorporate watching my selection of movies with other people into my project. I never really understood why people often didn’t give old movies a chance. Once I asked my mother if she wanted to watch the Wizard of Oz and she agreed but later she asked, why I would ever want to see such an old movie. I wanted to share my passion for older movies with my friends to …show more content…
I read about the overall Hollywood glamour and epic scale of the production of Gone With the Wind. I learned about the massively successful on-screen adaptations of A Streetcar Named Desire and My Fair Lady. Finally, the movie that I thought was the most interesting to read about, Sunset Boulevard. This was the story of an unstable, aging, former silent film star. She was delusional and she believed that she hadn’t been forgotten by the majority of the world. She desperately seeks a “Return to Film” but will never achieve it. Meanwhile, she had fallen madly in love with a young screenwriter who had stumbled upon her house while trying to outrun repo men. This was fascinating because this movie highlighted Hollywood’s tendency to disregard older women and to trash their young stars at the slightest hint of age. This film wasn’t received well by many in the film industry, people said that the director was biting the hand that feeds him, which he was. Despite this, the public fell in love with this enticing noir romance film and it even got nominated for best picture at the 1950 academy awards but got beaten out by another timeless classic All About