Old School:

* over-dramatised, lots of background music
* moderately budgeted
* most sets in the studio
* pretty cliched characterization, familiar situations
* thoroughly classical/modern

e.g. Sound of Music/most musical films, Epics like 'Ben Hur'

New School:

* Less dramatic background music
* Low to high budget
* Alot of on-location shooting
* More 'realistic'
* More complex social settings/situations

What year, do you think, marks the divide between the two 'schools' or 'types' of film? Of course it depends on the director.etc, but I think the divide was around 1967, which such films as 'Valley of the Dolls', 'Midnight Cowboy', and the 'French Connection' being major watersheds.

"Butch Casidy and the Sundance Kid" introduced the slow motion action shot, it made the scene realistic, in the past, gun fight scenes where common place that were taking for granted that had no bearing on the plot other than the a guy gets shot and he falls down dead...so what! but the slow motioness gives the killing of a person a sense of reality of someone dying by an act of another. It's still used today in many movies.

"Butch Casidy and the Sundance Kid" introduced the slow motion action shot, it made the scene realistic, in the past, gun fight scenes where common place that were taking for granted that had no bearing on the plot other than the a guy gets shot and he falls down dead...so what! but the slow motioness gives the killing of a person a sense of reality of someone dying by an act of another. It's still used today in many movies.



Yes, the slo mo was introduced in the late 60s - alot of late 60s and 70s was 'social conscious' cinema, which tackled many important social issues, in contrast to the various epics, Westerns, Musicals and Mills and Boon style Romances of pre-1960s cinema.