Posted: 1/9/2014 6:18:02 PM EDT
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There was a time when the credits for a movie were shown at the beginning of the movie. Not just actors, everything, editor, key grip, casting, etc. Now they're at the end.
When and why did this change come about? |
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Quoted: Because there was a time when there weren't 1200 people involved in making a movie. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile In the old days the key members of the cast and crew were mentioned in the credits, these days the pizza delivery boy is in them. |
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George Lucas is credited with popularizing this with his Star Wars films which display only the film's title at the start.His decision to omit opening credits in his films Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) led him to resign from the Directors Guild of America after being fined $250,000 for not crediting the director during the opening title sequence.However, Hollywood had been releasing films without opening credits for many years before Lucas came along, most notably Citizen Kane, West Side Story, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Godfather. |
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There was a time when the credits for a movie were shown at the beginning of the movie. Not just actors, everything, editor, key grip, casting, etc. Now they're at the end. When and why did this change come about? When producers realized that we don't give a f*(& who brought coffee to the shoot each morning. |
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Because the audience just doesn't care anymore.
Cinema used to be an experience. The amount of work/cost that went into shooting a movie on film was much higher than it is today on digital. Now, directors just overload movies with special effects and CGI, and audiences sit and drool in front of the screen at whatever flavor of the week actor/actress happens to be in it. Or they wait until it comes out on BluRay and do the same thing in front of their 70" LED TV with full surround sound. Editing, DP, etc. used to all be very skilled positions that had a direct impact on the movie. The coloring of scenes, cutting/mixing, etc. The editor used to do that without a whole lot of input from the directors in a lot of cases. Now, all that stuff is pumped through one of the 2 or 3 VFX studios to have the same generic coloring for each movie. The director can easily make the cuts on a computer too. Watch the documentary Side by Side. It talks about the progression of film cinema into digital, led by James Cameron and George Lucas. Digital has opened filmmaking to 1000x as many people now due to cost (compared to film), which has produced some great movies that otherwise wouldn't have been made. But it has also created this genre of crap movies that seem to just be big competitions among directors/studios to cram as much visual stimulation they can into a movie to get the unwashed masses to sit still for 2hr and pay their $15. |