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Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Reading your reaction to everyone else's comments, did you read the part where I said credits and an overture? What's got you so wound up over this? You'll notice I never said 10 minutes like that first guy, but most movies have way longer opening titles than 30 seconds, which is what you said...

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Which Lawrence of Arabia version from the 40s or 50s (your words) are you referring to?

If you mean the famous 60s film…. Yes, it has a minute of credits and another 4 or 5 for the overture. Not credits.

Again, still looking for examples of extended credit sequences. Overtures are basically the same as intermissions. That’s a totally different beast.

Even if you want to lump them together, we’re still at the “one or two” I mentioned. Huge Hollywood blockbusters. Exceedingly rare.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I literally said overture in the comment that's got you all bothered

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Oh boy. I just reread your edited comments. It’s hard to keep up when you edit like that

But yes, I would still care to hear your 40s and 50s examples. If you have one where overture+credits approaches 10 minutes, I’d be shocked. As we’ve discussed, some examples in the 60s can hit 5 minutes, but that’s about the most I’ve seen