{"id":10983,"date":"2020-09-28T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10983"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:01:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:01:49","slug":"bart-easton-ellis-covid-could-bring-back-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/28\/bart-easton-ellis-covid-could-bring-back-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Bart\/Easton-Ellis: COVID Could Bring Back Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>from MovieMaker<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Bart Predicts 1960s-Style \u2018Reinvention\u2019 of Movies<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><br>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/author\/tim-molloy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tim Molloy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheGodfather.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Bart The Godfather\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Bart, who helped oversee films including&nbsp;<em>Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Godfather<\/em>, says he believes cinema is ready for a \u201creinvention\u201d like the one of the late 1960s that spawned the brilliant films of the following decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bart, who helped his friend Robert Evans lead Paramount in a bold new direction after audiences dwindled in the mid-1960s, says on the latest\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/breteastonellispodcast\/posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bret Easton Ellis Podcast<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>that the movie business is in a similarly dark place now to the one it was in then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDue to the pandemic and other factors, the movie business has simply lost its audience\u2026 because of the virus, but also the movies were beginning to lose interest. And&nbsp;I think now, as then, there will be a reinvention situation,\u201d said Bart, 88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe difference, of course, and this is an importance difference, is the mid-60s were characterized by certain amazing developments,\u201d Bart said. \u201cSociety was beginning to change, and the movies had to come along and somehow change in a way that showed understanding of that societal change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/peter-bart-bret-easton-ellis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at MovieMaker<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from MovieMaker Peter Bart Predicts 1960s-Style \u2018Reinvention\u2019 of Movies By Tim Molloy Peter Bart, who helped oversee films including&nbsp;Rosemary\u2019s Baby&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Godfather, says he believes cinema is ready for a \u201creinvention\u201d like the one of the late 1960s that spawned the brilliant films of the following decade. Bart, who helped his friend Robert Evans lead Paramount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}