Exercise 10 - Movie Classics


Hello and welcome to Movie Classics. Tonight, we'll be looking at action heroes. And a little bit later, we'll be joined by a guest movie critic for insights into some of today's top box office hits. Don't go away!


 
Hello, and welcome to Movie Classics. Later in the show, we'll talk about some of the current movies that are on the road to becoming classics with a guest critic from the New York Times. But first, we're going to begin with our traditional look at great moments in the cinema. Have you ever thought about why you don't see the good guys wearing white anymore? Remember the old cowboy movies? The bad guys wore black hats. The good guys wore white. 

You don't see scenes like those in westerns or police detective shows any more. Today, the good guys don't look all that different from the bad guys. 

In past decades, TV heroes from Superman to Sam Spade usually cooperated with the authorities. They were tough, but they played by the rules. The 1960s were years when much of the American public called something into question-authority. And that questioning of authority carried over into the movies. The establishment was not always right-even the police chiefs and the mayors. And the in-the-trenches good guys often had to rebuke their superiors in order to get the job done. In the streets, they did whatever they had to do, even if that meant taking the law into their own hands. 
 

Today's heroes often snub their superiors and take law into their own hands-Steven Segal and Sylvester Stallone, to name just a few. When the establishment does not back them up, they forge ahead anyway and do whatever it takes to get the bad guy. The irony is that now the bad guy doesn't look much different from the good guy. 

We'll be back in a moment to get some insights about why the good guys don't wear white anymore when Movie Classics continues.




We're happy now to welcome 
______________________, a movie critic from the New York Times. 


 
Thank you for joining me for this week's edition of Movie Classics. Please join me again next time when we look at this year's Oscar nominees.