The Hollywood Style

Old look of Hollywood

Audrey Hepburn

The documentary ‘what is the Hollywood style?’ brings out main characteristics of the classic Hollywood – always on the imaginative sense, narrative, invisible editing and convincing transporting to audience to the place of the characters.

                Business people plus artist and actors equates a movie production. As the documentary suggests the elements of business and art have united to take advantage of busy people – real life is far away the life that we all create in our imagination. This is the reason why we watch movies. In this way the classic Hollywood style was able to make a lot of people believe that in a way their dreams came true through a movie’s story line as their life or a certain character as themselves.

                Next is the narrative which is compose of beginning, middle and end. This is the part that contributed the popularity of the classic Hollywood style. It somehow became the standard of movie making for those who have been influence to it. Several examples are happy endings; main character saves the day and boy meets girl. It became so popular that without it the audience would be disappointed.

                “Don’t let them realize, oopps it is just a movie.” One great thing about the classic Hollywood style is the invisible editing. This became their advantage towards the European movies. It made the style more realistic without the jump cuts. In connection with how they unified the space and time so that it would equate how space and time are used in real life – 180 degrees rule. 

the movie goers back then 

                All in the entire classic Hollywood cinema is still being used today and somehow the Philippine cinema hasn’t gotten over it yet. It is good, for me the classic still have a big place in me but still thank goodness many director rises up to give a more realistic story. In the 1971, Grand Canyon, “All the life’s riddles are answered in the movies.” I really hope that people would get the right and realistic answer to those riddles without sacrificing the art of movie making.