Film anniversaries

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• DrMaybe Posts: 204MI6 Agent

  December 2008

  1969 - The Wild Bunch is released. Film violence increases drastically afterwards.
  
  Easy Rider is released. Changes the face of cinema forever, and brings about the demise of the old studio system.
  
  Midnight Cowboy is released. Becomes the first X rated film to win an Oscar.
• Napoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,427MI6 Agent

  December 2008

  Do you do any gardening, Maybe?
  
  I'm off in my helicopter later...

  "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."
  
  Roger Moore 1927-2017
• DrMaybe Posts: 204MI6 Agent

  December 2008

  Napoleon Plural wrote:

  Do you do any gardening, Maybe?
  
  I'm off in my helicopter later...

  
  No, but if I did, I trust I can get quite a bit of manure from some of the more "amiable" members here. And should I run short, I can get a few extra shovels full in the Dark Knight thread.
  
  Hey, enjoy your flight. |)
• Napoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,427MI6 Agent

  December 2008

  "Maybe I don't really want to know
  How your garden grows
  I just want to fly..."
  
  I expect you have to know your Oasis to get this...

  "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."
  
  Roger Moore 1927-2017
• Dan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent

  December 2008

  DrMaybe wrote:

  Easy Rider is released. Changes the face of cinema forever, and brings about the demise of the old studio system.

  That's incredibly debatable. Easy Rider was significant, but I would greatly contest that any individual film brought about the demise of the old studio system, and if there was an individual film which did so, it would be Bonnie and Clyde, which was released two years before Easy Rider.

  "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman