Shooting for Perfection: Keeping It Timeless

Some old movies are good and some are bad. I have my own way of telling them apart. The picture quality or colour matters less to me than the script and the overall execution. I have peculiar demands. It must be quiet. It must have patches of silence here and there, with that blip from putting a needle onto the phonograph only. Aside from that, its dialogue must be free of contemporary idioms. Look back on a 40's movie with popular expressions from that time and you may find it impossible not to fall asleep. It must have words on the screen in the key spots where they are needed. Maybe a sign is in a foreign language and must be translated into English. Maybe some time has passed over the course of the story, and a few things have changed in the life of the lead character. All robots must be made of silver spray-painted cardboard boxes with venting hoses from dryers for arms and gloves for hands and cute little satellite dishes for ears. They must speak in a monotonous tone of their malevolence towards mankind. Good guitar picking is no substitute for a traceable plot, in the case of certain trendy flicks from history. No music at all seems to work rather well, I find, in the ones I like the best.
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