Twenty First Century Cinema

Send us a textWhen movies first came out they were focused on one basic thing. Telling a story without words, just emotions. And for the most part this worked, you even got movies like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which told an amazing story with a powerful shocking twist at the end, and hey that film was silent! Some people in the early 1900’s even got inspired by other people’s work and tried to make their own version of it. This happened first in 1904 with a small film called “The Great Train Robbery”. It happened a few other times since then but nowhere else noteworthy as films very quickly realized they could expand on their stories and create more films that continued the narrative. The film “The Fall of  nation” followed up it’s 1918 prequel “The Birth Of A Nation” in 1919 giving Hollywood it’s first ever look at a sequel. Now sequels didn’t catch on right there and then. They gained a little traction but kind of got forgotten about when sound entered cinema and we started getting cult classics like Ci