The video above is by YouTuber Alex Day contains clips from around 500 movies, and you’ve almost certainly seen at least a few of them. Battleship Potemkin, Dumbo, rear window, Dr. No, godfather, E.T. extraterrestrial life form, top gun, brave heart, gladiator, inception: We’re not talking about the obscure here. Whether you place it among your personal favorites or not, all of these films have become near-universally known for good (and/or Oscar-related) reasons, and they’re all part of the history of film told visually. As you watch, you may remember some of them. Introducing particularly famous scenes in full length.
Although the majority are genre films, Day writes, “I have not selected films that represent the development of genre or cinematic trends.” “We chose the ones that are the most popular and well-known to people. Many of the most famous films in history are from the United States, so we chose to include fewer films from other countries and a very large number of American films. That’s why. ring And the existence of ringwhich was remade in Hollywood a few years later. ) No matter where you are in the world, rocky, back to the futureor home alone — or the work of video mainstay Steven Spielberg — to surprisingly great effect.
No matter how popular these movies are, it’s actually rare that an audience can claim to be familiar with all of them. Almost inevitably, the experience of watching this video becomes a watch-or-don’t-watch game, highlighting the times in your life when you were most invested in watching movies. For me, around the turn of the millennium, when I was just coming of age as a movie buff (and, coincidentally or not, a time when even mainstream movies were being particularly inventive), the movies included You must have watched almost all of them. I heard that recently and it stopped me. american psycho It’s being remade now — but this film, released almost a quarter of a century ago, has probably cemented its place in film history.
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Based in Seoul, Colin Mbemust write and broadcastIt’s about cities, languages ​​and cultures. His projects include the Substack newsletter books about cities and a book Stateless City: A Stroll Through Los Angeles in the 21st Century. Follow him on Twitter @Colinbemust or facebook.
