Jaws
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal
Alien & Aliens
Matrix
The Lord of the Rings
Jaws redefined the term thriller. Star Wars took what was once hookie grade B scifi and made it credible. Indiana Jones raised the bar on action movies. Apocalpse Now & Full Metal Jacket redefined war movies. Aliens & Aliens added the next level of credibility to the Scifi genera while demonstrating how you can take a concept and make it evolve from a suspense thriller to a non stop roller coaster ride. These movies revolutionized film making and ushered in the new era of cinematography. Then The Matrix came along and threw out what ever old rules were left in Hollywood.
I could have sited older movies but these movies bridged the gap between "old school" and modern movie making.
And The Lord of the Rings will rule forever! Who else could make you wait three years and 12 hours to see the end of a movie and then wait for the extended version to be released on DVD. LOL!I would say rebel with out a cause because it declared the bad boy attitude and look they use for so many movies now. The wizard of oz because it brought color into a black and white world. Sin city for the opposite, splashing color on the same screen as black and white. For my final selection I would say Toy story for bring computer animation to life. There are many others but those ones for sure.I can only think of two sources that changed movies for the better.
One was the type of film that had been used, and was not made to
last long. And I heard that the Desilu studies run by Lucille and Desi
Arnez, used a new durable recording tape for their TV series and per-
haps for the movies that came out of their studio, like the "Long Long
Trailer".
I heard also that the movie Gone With The WInd needed some
special affects for the burning of Atlanta and they had a back lot of
old props and such they had no use at the studio for. So they set
them under a controlled fire and used that footage to duplicate the
burning of the Civil War city. And it looked so real, that they were
glad that they had all of that stuff in storage that they could utilize.
I wish I had seen that special recently, as there were some other
things they mentioned that revolutionized the way they filmed big
budget films in the future, from things they learned while filming
this huge blockbuster movie.I agree with all those who have posted to this question. However, on ‘CHANGING Hollywood, The Jazz Singer, on Sound; Snow White on animation,and the evolution of COLOR, but I include the Warner Bros musicals with Busby Berkely as the cameras and songs went to new limits, eventually opening to gangsters. They made ‘real stars’ from those movies who eventually had the ‘star power’ to create their own pedestals.I think Star Wars. For me that was great and the technology was great and it was a series that I waited many years to see finish. And I just ordered the last two from Netflix and thought that, yup, that was the beginning of the end when I could go into a movie and actually look at where it was made and have an actual background. And instead of using light to set drama, everything is now technically enhanced. I remember how glad I was to finally have color and really know that dress was red and how bright all the movies became but something was truly lost. Remember those great bad guys with the hat shading their eyes and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night as she laid down in the field with the moonlight on her, she looked so soft. I knew the dress was red anyway. And the use of light in Casablanca. . .it wouldn’t have been the same in color. Play it again Sam. . .
I’d like to praise La Vie en Rose for use of color and background. The story was one thing but the background was superb for use of color and textures from the concrete steps of poverty in Paris to the splashes of red and other colors throughout the movie. That was so well done. I’m one of those that will listen to the directors comments on why they did what they did and what effect they wanted it to have.I agree with Carbonated_Milk’s answer.
I have had discussions with my husband – how James Dean changed Hollywood and we are in agreement that he did indeed make the difference.
He starred in Rebel Without a Cause – East of Eden and Giant.
He is an icon – he won two Academy Awards in his short acting career and short life – He was born in 1931 – died in 1955. He changed Hollywood.
He was a messed up – mixed up human being and was destined to live a short life.
Interesting question.
DeeJayI think Clint Eastwood brought violence to the screen with his spaghetti westerns!! Seems as though after we all ran to the drive-in to watch him the world went to he!! in a handbag and anything goes!!! Don’t get me wrong I was in line to get my ticket to watch him too but to look back he was a bad influence on the youth!!!
I loved James Dean!!!!old movies relied on scenery, music and talent up to about the eighties when a beloved character E T showed up…then we got special effects, pixar pictures and acting has gone out the window and they cant even read q cards without giving it away. yeah i like a good cartoon and we have children..but we dont have actors anymore…we have movie stars. there’s a handful of good ones left but when the young ones get older the quality wont be there. the cheapness of reality shows and tv infomercials have ruined telivision. my cable bill pays more for "paid programing" then real shows…but someone buys their crap or it wouldn’t last. how many colon cleansers does america need? we must be more anal than i thought…lol2001– A Space Odyssey (special effects)
The Graduate (brought sex to the mainstream)
James Bond movies (Espionage became fun and sexy)
Star Wars (special effects)
Gone With the Wind (for its magnificence)
Psycho (a new level of creepy)
Bullit and The French Connection (car chases)
Animal House (brought us the gross factor)Saving Private Ryan, a movie that changed the way people across the world view the American generation that fought World War Two; Star Wars, a motion picture so important that a missile defense system was named for it; and The Birth of a Nation, not only the first film to be hailed as the artistic equivalent to opera, literature, and painting, but also the first film to give a cloak of respectability to racial prejudice.Technology certainly changed the industry, but it seems to me that in the 70′s a new genre of film came to the theaters that changed the movies from pure fiction to a more real sense of time and place.
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Bonnie and Clyde
The Wild Bunch
M.A.S.H.
Star Wars
I know there were many more, but these are just a few that come to mind.
I have been informed that a couple of those movies were made in the late 60′s. At any rate, it was when I began to notice that the movies were different than the Saturday cinema was when I was a kid."Ben-Hur" – chariot race was done with expert stunt work. If filmed today, they’d use computer graphics.
The race was also done without music, focusing on the intensity and emotionalism of the hatred between Ben-Hur and Messala. Music would have been distracting.
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