{"id":320,"date":"2007-06-10T22:21:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T16:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/10\/back-to-the-future\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T15:10:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T09:40:14","slug":"back-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2007\/06\/back-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, I was\u00a0watching yet another episode of the famous \u201cIn The Actor\u2019s Studio<\/a>\u201d series.\u00a0 This time, it was an interview with Robert Redford.\u00a0 Among other things, he was asked about his opinion on the way modern cinema has evolved.\u00a0 And, the answer left most of his young audience (including me), somewhat dazed.<\/p>\n

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Bob started talking about the way cinema used to be a socio-cultural event, back in the ol\u2019 days.\u00a0 This was a time when a ticket cost less than 50 pence.\u00a0 But, in exchange for that princely sum, the audience could enjoy two cartoon films, two short films, one news cast (usually covering the war), and two main feature films!<\/p>\n

Just going to see a movie in the theatre used to be a memorable family event in itself!<\/em><\/p>\n

Then, slowly and steadily, movie owners and distributors discovered the extra income they could make from adopting an assembly-line approach where you fill a movie-hall with a packed audience, show them a movie show, and get them out as fast as possible, only to fill it up all over again.\u00a0 The evolution of that thinking, eventually, led to the modern-day \u201cmultiplex\u201d phenomenon where four or five screens would do the same thing, in one venue itself.\u00a0 In fact, these days, the trend has reached new heights with even the snacks and drinks being served to you, in your seat, during the intermission!<\/p>\n

Now, most of us born on the younger side of the \u201970s would not have dreamt of such a phenomenon, were it not for stories like these handed-down from one generation to the next.\u00a0 For all its conveniences, I’m sure, many people of Bob\u2019s age would not be too pleased with the way modern cinema has \u201cevolved\u201d.<\/p>\n

What a wondrous experience it would be to go see “a movie”\u00a0in the good ol\u2019 days\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob started talking about the way cinema used to be a socio-cultural event, back in the ol’ days. This was a time when a ticket cost less than 50 pence. But, in exchange for that princely sum, the audience could do so much…Just going to see a movie in the theatre used to be a memorable event in itself! Most of us born on this side of the ’70s would not have dreamt of such a thing, were it not for stories like these handed-down from one generation to the next. So that got me thinking: What else has actually deteriorated in terms of its overall experience, despite modern-day advances? Surely, one could come up with many examples…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[24,10],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-etcetera","tag-society"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}