I've had that affecting me ever since I was around all the theater folk in college, and all along with the computer hackers and designers and such - and since I became a garb-snob.
I grew up with my folks doing anthropology and archaeology for college - and my mom's a history buff, too - so the appreciation for the way people really did things was always there.
Now, though, I'm so hyper-aware that I bug my hubby and friends if I don't keep my mouth shut in a movie where they slaughter the Latin (Indie Jones w/Sean Connery as his father, for one), or mess with the dinosaurs (Jurassic Park) or simply mess with clothes and culture and history and interactions (Mel Gibson's "period" piece, came out same time as the wonderful Liam Neeson in "Rob Roy"), while films like "Rob Roy" win my love and admiration, as did "The Madness of King George," because they got all the parts _right_. The clothes (who had what, and whose were clean, and whose were dirty and mended and who had one outfit for all the day and night, and who didn't), how the lawn was actually a green grass lawn, which no one else had except for other royalty, and there was a guy in livery using a gigantic scissors to clip it to length, how the classes reacted to each other. . . these earn my respect and admiration. Effects, whether or not they're computer effects or animation effects or scenery effects, etc., they earn my respect and admiration if they're done well.
On the other hand, I not only find my sense of the movie or book or whatever lost if all those things are slapped together, I can even end up disliking or perhaps hating the thing if it's really bad.
Awareness can, indeed, forever change things, and sometimes, even ruin them.
I'm guessing the prevalence of _not_ being aware of such things is why so many things are so popular nowadays. Overall, I find that disturbing - there ought to be more awareness than that, you know?
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I grew up with my folks doing anthropology and archaeology for college - and my mom's a history buff, too - so the appreciation for the way people really did things was always there.
Now, though, I'm so hyper-aware that I bug my hubby and friends if I don't keep my mouth shut in a movie where they slaughter the Latin (Indie Jones w/Sean Connery as his father, for one), or mess with the dinosaurs (Jurassic Park) or simply mess with clothes and culture and history and interactions (Mel Gibson's "period" piece, came out same time as the wonderful Liam Neeson in "Rob Roy"), while films like "Rob Roy" win my love and admiration, as did "The Madness of King George," because they got all the parts _right_. The clothes (who had what, and whose were clean, and whose were dirty and mended and who had one outfit for all the day and night, and who didn't), how the lawn was actually a green grass lawn, which no one else had except for other royalty, and there was a guy in livery using a gigantic scissors to clip it to length, how the classes reacted to each other. . . these earn my respect and admiration. Effects, whether or not they're computer effects or animation effects or scenery effects, etc., they earn my respect and admiration if they're done well.
On the other hand, I not only find my sense of the movie or book or whatever lost if all those things are slapped together, I can even end up disliking or perhaps hating the thing if it's really bad.
Awareness can, indeed, forever change things, and sometimes, even ruin them.
I'm guessing the prevalence of _not_ being aware of such things is why so many things are so popular nowadays. Overall, I find that disturbing - there ought to be more awareness than that, you know?