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How movies have changed
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Ben Fugitt
Wilh the advent of the one-eyed monster in the 1950k. experts
claimed that the motion picture industry had had it Thirty years
later, the experts are still saying movies have had it. And I think
you can safely bet they'll still Ik* saying it thirty years from now
Hollywood has of course seen better days In the 1940s for
instance, the average Ameican spent 22 percent of his
entertainment budged on movies attending his local theatre
thirty-three times a year Nowadays, people spend less than two
percent of their entertainment budgets on movies, and seldom go
to movies more than four times a year
Production costs continue to soar on the west coast. The
average cost of making a film today runs close to six million
dollars As a result, fewer and fewer movies are being made
every year as financiers back a handful of potential blockbusters
rather than a series of less spectacular crowd-pleasers
This trend would In* a particularly horrifying one were the
current crop of movies as impoverished in quality as thev are
in numbers Luckily, this is not the case at all
Over the past decade, there has lx*en a slow but steady surge
in the quality and the vision of tne films being produced Now
more than ever before writers and directors have found the
artistic and financial freedom to delve into areas of the human
tradition and the human psyche that have seldom been explored
before
And this is largely because today s audiences are the most
critical, visually literate audiences in the history of the cinema
Kilm in a can is worthless without an audience*, ami the
audiences are now there Today's audiences were* weaned on Hu
television set a simplifier and corrupter of reality perhaps but
nonetheless a visual medium It remains an excellent source ol
visual pablum for the infant filmgoer, something easily digested
before progressing to the more refined cuisine of the best
cinema
The film audiences are ready for the great films, and the great
films are coming The medium is lx*ing re-discovered The
potential of the motion picture has not even begun to be realized
Never before have we had so many directors with such acute
understandings of the power and spirit of the medium: Coppola
Spielberg. Scorsese. Altman. DePalma. Allen. Kubrick
We are quickly approaching the greatest era of filmmaking the
world has known, even though it may be that movies may
continue to take a back seat to other developments in entertain
ment: in video, in amusement parks, in holography
All great art forms have had their day—commercially Film's
fall from mass-audience appeal and huge box -office returns mav
be the best thing that has ever happened to it Perhaps more and
more, the artist will be allowed to make the decisions the
bookkeeper once did.
Perhaps at last film will be able to cast off all suspicions that it
may be little more than a crass, money-crazed industry, and tx*
allowed to settle down and take its well-deserved and equal place
among the arts
Student job seekers can find help
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mi your own lot part time
work lor tall in Athens then
the Student Kuiploxment
Olfice at the t niversilv
may lx* the answer to your
problems
Student employment, a
free service assists slu
dents and their dependent*
in seeking employment in
teb Athens area txith on
and off campus
The office makes refer
rals tor campus jobs in the
libraries and dining halls,
on the labor pool, and for
clerical work. More than 350
local businesses list job
opportunities with Student
Fanply incut meluding mo
tels. restaurants hospitals.
ud Mime lor a I industries
Government agencies also
list with the office to gel
participants for their co-op
programs
Kighl hundred employers
will lx- listing job opportuni
ties with the office this fall,
aid Thomas W Lauder
dale student employment
coordinator, in a recent
interview
"Any employer who wish
es to use our service does
so There are not many jobs
that you can name that I
don’t get. Lauderdale said
Students who are l<x>king
for employment should
know their class schedule
and Ik* ready to go to work
Ix lore filling out an applica
lion and seeing l^iuderdale
lor an interview The
students also are expected
to stay in touch with the
office in order to learn
aboui available jobs
*1 can only fill the jobs as
they come in. and I fill
anything that's any good in
a day and a half This
means the student has to
slay in touch It takes
persistence.” Lauderdale
said
While Lauderdale at
tempts to assist students in
getting the most money for
their time, only two or three
percent of the student
employment programs in
volve a financial need fa<
tor Most of the program'
involve a need for a person
with certain skills and
hours
I think we have ;; good
program Lauderdale said
It's for the students to get
the mone\ the need, to get
the education they want to
get the better life they
seek ”
Students who would like
to be involved in the student
employment program < an
go to Clark Howell Hall,
room 280, and fill out an
application and have a
personal interview with
Lauderdale The office is
open from 8am to 5 p m
Monday through Friday
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Dr Hunter 8. Thompson, the
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that all one ever needs is a
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using the same verb or
adjective in the same sentence
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ly need a thesaurus to find
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The Kids Are Alright
Who albums are events For
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The live version of the Who's
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their previous recordings
amazing A four song segment
of Tommy recorded at Wood-
stock. including an astounding
version of "See Me. Feel me."
is an engrossing performance
of the only rock opera that
ever truly worked.
And the ten-minute live take
of "Won't Get Fooled AGain,"
stands alone as the definitive
version of this classic.
"Won't Get Fooled Again,"
drives home the point of this
album with deadly accuracy.
Rock and Roll is just as
healthy now as it has ever
been
Perhaps Townshend sums it
up best in these two lines:
"Long live rock, be it dead or
alive "
Chuck Reece
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