Most influential movies ever
There are many lists made of the best movies ever, but what about most influential? (keep in mind ‘influential’ does not = good, neccessarily). Let’s make a list:
1927: ‘Jazz Singer’ wasn’t first sound film, but started sound revolution in hollywood.
1915: ‘Birth of a Nation’ possibly most influential movie ever, first epic blockbuster and set the standard for feature film length and story structure
1934: ‘It Happened one night’ first madcap comedy
1960s: the New Wave movement in france with movies like Breathless, they tore down hollywood conventions
1977: star wars brings in the age of the modern blockbuster
1996: ‘Scream’ brings back horros, slasher, teen drama
1998: ‘Matrix’ influences action forever
1994: ‘pulp fiction’ brings in indie filmmaking, influences crime films forever
1992: ‘T2′ starts special effects revolution
what else?
Pulp fictions effect on film had nothing to do with being indie. The film has an 8 million dollar budget and mainstream cast, it wasn’t indie. And really, the crime wasn’t that big of a deal either. What Pulp fiction did that was so revolutionary was it presented a completely new way of telling a story via movie, and broke the ‘Act1/Act2/Act3′ structure as it stood in pre-pulp 1994. There was no defined beginning, middle or end really, each little segment had its own beginnings, middles and ends that tied into the others, it was a masterpiece Ensemble. And it wasn’t the first either. See Robert Altman films.
Saving Private Ryan set a standard for world war 2 movies.
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Large scale CGI yes. Thought you might argue that The Abyss was the first major film to use CGI in any realistic way.
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