In a recent column, Mick LaSalle responds to various reader queries about celebrity interactions, modern cinematographic trends, and the shifting nature of personal film enjoyment. He recounts a perception of Gene Hackman as difficult and prickly despite a reader's fond memory of him. LaSalle addresses concerns over dark filming styles, suggesting TV settings might be at fault rather than a trend in filmmaking. He further discusses how our personal perceptions of films evolve over time, although the films themselves remain unchanged.
Gene Hackman did not strike me as a nice man...someone prickly and difficult...might cut his kids out of his will.
Directors may not want us to see what's happening due to a possible trend...but if it continues, it could just be your TV settings.
I didn't say what you said I said. The movie stays the same but our perceptions change...we shouldn't fear that.
...turn up the brightness and turn down the contrast, and that might solve the problem.
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