/lit/ - Literature

>>12393752
Kids, and their parents, in the 70s didn't think so.
But that's so not the point.

The success of the Beatles is an example too. It doesn't matter what you think of them.
The time has come and gone.

Movies tend to tell a story about one particular clique in general. A bunch of people who like to race cars, or some teens on the cusp of adulthood, or maybe what it's like for two different types of people to get married and have children. Maybe the dialogue hints at the issues involved but doesn't explore it in depth. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Revolutionary Road are both great plays and movies, but they're more about the individuals involved in a marriage, and not about grander ideas.

Books or great plays deal in depth with differences in type; the conflict between boor, knight, priest. They allow these characters to dramatize one central societal problem, and explore it at length.

The dialogue describes what each character is thinking before, during and after the setpiece scenes. The conversations are heated because they're not personal... They're grander and more societal in nature... hence there is more to be lost.

A Man For All Seasons is a great two-Act play, and film... It manages to present a variety of views on the significance of the Reformation in England. Yet even something that scored huge box office, like The Dark Knight, manages to be 'literate' because you know everything you need to know about the two main characters... It isn't about personal ambition, but about the significance of the Neo-Conservative era.