[ExI] squeeze the classics

[Mike Dougherty]

On Jun 5, 2016 4:40 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The problem isn't the old films. The problem is the hyper-active
> shortened attention span of the new generation.
>
> BillK
>
> If you repeat something it becomes true.  Or not.  What I'd like to see
is some real data, not news stories, rather than assumptions made from
observing people playing video games and entranced by smart phones.  I
believe that attention span is a basic function of the brain, which
evolution may change, but smartphones not.
> Even if you find some differences, they may stem from personality
differences:  extroverts may like these things more than introverts, and
extroverts have shorter spans.

I don't think a 3+ hour movie is longer than modern attention span.
Consider the "Netflix binge" where one watches an entire season of a show
in a day or two.

Perhaps the problem is that old movies do not stimulate enough modalities.
There was a lot of talking in those old 'character development' movies -
which made sense when effects were special and CGI was likely only
someone's monogram.  Of course that means the audience needed to listen.
Now we have many more options for visualizing the story, so dialogue is
used to stitch contexts together.

In the near future we'll wonder how non-360 degree movies ever held an
audience's attention.  Soon after we'll refuse to watch "movies" (or
whatever they'll be called) if the AI driving the story are too
predictable.
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