My friend jon sent me this quote. I agree with Justice Kennedy's assessment of why producers make unsubstantial movies.
"Movies, I think young people misjudge. If you ask high school students what are good books, they usually come up with fair answers, the books they get in college prep courses. So they usually recite some of those types. Scarlet Letter? Excellent! Walden Pond? Terrible, I think. My own choice, I don't like it. But movies? They have no concept that great movies have an ethical development; a spiritual awareness happens to the character. They think movies are just entertainment. And so -- Old? Forget it! Subtitles? Forget it! Black and white? Forget it! They think of movies as having special effects for momentary entertainment, and that's very sad. I'm afraid the producers think of it that way, too, and that's very sad, because movies are a wonderful way to teach about human struggle, human conflict, human reconciliation, human atonement."
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