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The moment it becomes unnecessary something
happens to it. Now it’s available to come back as
an art form. Every art form we have, it turns out,
used to be a cliché. Horses are now an art form,
they’re an aesthetic activity. They used to be just
everyday. Film is now an aesthetic activity. It used
to be something you’d send the kids off to as a
babysitter on a Saturday afternoon. Film used to
be deprecated and people took large moral
exception to them. “Oh, the quality of films is
really low. You just get trash. You get these James
Cagney things and Victor Mature, war movies.
Nothing but the lowest kitch and garbage in films.”
When TV came along suddenly films looked good