As the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures prepares to open this month, it seems a good moment to consider the big picture. I mean the really big picture.Specifically, I’m wondering, over the long haul—hundreds, not dozens, of years—how the movies of our era will be regarded.It’s safe to assume, should mankind survive, that pictorial story-telling of some kind will exist in the far future, as it did in the distant past.
Neanderthals, we’re told, painted in caves 60,000 years ago. Add some Paleolithic narrative, and you’re on your way to an art form in which two-hour stories are told in a darkened theater to a mostly hushed crowd.
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