Continuing the conversation from yesterday, I love the fact that people have such different go-to movies. The movies listed by others are all films that I’ve seen and greatly admire (except for the french ones, which I hadn’t heard of), but most of them I am not sure I could watch over and over again.<\/p>\n
I would think nothing of watching Blade Runner<\/i> or Casablanca<\/i> or Mary Poppins<\/i> on an endless loop, but I don’t think I would be able to sit through It’s a Mad Mad Mad World<\/i> too many times in any given decade. Which is not at all to say that my tastes are in any sense correct — only that they are my tastes.<\/p>\n
How much, I wonder, can each of us be identified with our taste in movies? For example, given a group of people you know, and their respective list of go-to movies, would you be able to match each person to their particular list?<\/p>\n
Or to put it another way, do we each have our own unique set of cinematic fingerprints? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Continuing the conversation from yesterday, I love the fact that people have such different go-to movies. The movies listed by others are all films that I’ve seen and greatly admire (except for the french ones, which I hadn’t heard of), but most of them I am not sure I could watch over and over again. … Continue reading “Cinematic fingerprints”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17481,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions\/17481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}