why do people in older movies talk so exaggerated and retarded?

[The Notorious LOL]

its incredibly irritating. The vast majority of the movies made before 1960 I cant even watch because the actors talk like dorks.

[HOTWIFE]

and i love it when the women put their arm up to their head all exaggeratingly. is that a word?

[The Notorious LOL]

i hate that shit. I picture this crew in the 1950s advising the actors to "act like its a movie!" and "stop with that real life nonsense!"


Im sure a-z disagrees since hes seen like every single movie on the planet 7 or 8 times.


Even Psycho had minimal elements of that shit but it wasnt real obvious or super obnoxious.

[HOTWIFE]

i hate that shit. I picture this crew in the 1950s advising the actors to "act like its a movie!" and "stop with that real life nonsense!"
maybe it's because before television there were only plays, and stage acting is a tad more exaggerated. maybe

[mickill]

I think people back then really did talk like that. Especially in the thirties. Dudes would get into scraps and be like, "Say...you're a real wise guy, aren't ya? Whyyyy, I oughta deck ya right in the kisser, smarty." and it'd be some serious shit going down.

[Documad]

^^ That would be so cool to meet someone like Humphrey Bogart in real life. :)

I love old movies. They're not supposed to be realistic. The female actors of old times were so great. I love all the fast-paced talking. I've always liked words better than photos.

The realistic movies are the 1970s are cool too, but in a different way.

[HOTWIFE]

^^ That would be so cool to meet someone like Humphrey Bogart in real life. :)

I love old movies. They're not supposed to be realistic. The female actors of old times were so great. I love all the fast-paced talking. I've always liked words better than photos.

The realistic movies are the 1970s are cool too, but in a different way.
i have a collection of pinup photos. i think i'm obsessed with them. that really has nothing to do with what you just said, but it reminded me of them. they is gawgeous darling

[skra75]

its true bro. layer on the fact that they are in black in white and you may as well give me a tylenol with codine and warm blanket.

in other news, I miss the face that you could make when you typed this: : D

[miss soul fire]

Ooh, I love old movies! Especially Western ones! I also looove the songs they play whenever a man kisses a woman. It's so dramatic! Haha!:D

[abcdefz]

I think it's in large part because that was the acting and writing style of those times. Theatrical productions (whether theater, film, or simple speechmaking) played to the back rows and were pretty darned aware of the procenium arch.

Like Hotwife and Documad have said, it's just stylization. By and large, "realism" is a later theatrical construct, and even though elements of it peeked through even in silent films (and, presumably, some plays), it was pretty revolutionary when Brando and some of those other Strasberg kidz started doing it onscreen.

The '70's was supposed to be a high point of realism, but that's kinda bullshit. There's an awful lot of mannersim going on in a lot of the most revered films of thhose days that make some stuff look incredibly dated, because that was the hip stylization of that time. You want to see something closer to real realism, try Cassavattes' A Woman Under the Influence.

[Nuzzolese]

I think people back then really did talk like that. Especially in the thirties. Dudes would get into scraps and be like, "Say...you're a real wise guy, aren't ya? Whyyyy, I oughta deck ya right in the kisser, smarty." and it'd be some serious shit going down.

I always assumed this was true. One time I tried going into an AOL over 60 chat room and pretending to be an old timer and I talked like that "oh DO stop teasing me!" sort of thing. They didn't buy it.

[Otis Driftwood]

It's called acting. Sadly a tradition in desperate need of revival.

[Nuzzolese]

sorry, I meant "pretended"

[Nuzzolese]

It's called acting. Sadly a tradition in desperate need of revival.

snootypants

[abcdefz]

It's called acting. Sadly a tradition in desperate need of revival.



Otis hasn't been the same since they introduced stereo.

[Nivvie]

I think a lot of people really did talk like that. Sure, there's something very hammy about the acting style at the time, but just listen to old speeches and stuff from the war, or even interviews with normal folk, people knew how to enunciate back then.

[The Notorious LOL]

okay on that note:


why did our grandparents (or parents for all the old people here) talk so faggy in their heyday?

[HotAndWet]

What really annoys me is going to see a local play, most likely a high school production and hear everyone talk like that. I remember trying out for plays in high school and I would get criticized because I didn't talk like a douche bag, I acted real. Plus, all the "actor" kids at school who were considered good talked that way so everyone was supposed to do that, which bascially was talking to the point of shouting and overacting. Shit sucked.

[HOTWIFE]

50 yrs from now our great-grandchildren will start a thread about how dumb and annoying we sound