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A few weeks ago, I posted a poll about old movies. Here are the results:
As a group, people on my friends list strongly prefer (by two-thirds or more) musicals to film noir, Alfred Hitchcock to Frank Capra, Katherine Hepburn to Bette Davis, Jimmy Stewart to Cary Grant (and no one voted for Clark Gable at all), Bing Crosby to Frank Sinatra, and Humphrey Bogart to Spencer Tracy. We prefer Judy Garland to Marilyn Monroe, Rodgers and Hammerstein to Lerner and Lowe and (sob!) Gene Kelly to Fred Astaire. And we slightly prefer Buster Keaton to Charlie Chaplin -- that was the closest.
I'm not sure what conclusions one can draw from this: a seeming tendency towards sentimentality as evidenced by a preference for musicals, Jimmy Stewart and Rogers and Hammerstein is counterbalanced by a preference for Alfred Hitchcock and Humphrey Bogart.
This was fun.
As a group, people on my friends list strongly prefer (by two-thirds or more) musicals to film noir, Alfred Hitchcock to Frank Capra, Katherine Hepburn to Bette Davis, Jimmy Stewart to Cary Grant (and no one voted for Clark Gable at all), Bing Crosby to Frank Sinatra, and Humphrey Bogart to Spencer Tracy. We prefer Judy Garland to Marilyn Monroe, Rodgers and Hammerstein to Lerner and Lowe and (sob!) Gene Kelly to Fred Astaire. And we slightly prefer Buster Keaton to Charlie Chaplin -- that was the closest.
I'm not sure what conclusions one can draw from this: a seeming tendency towards sentimentality as evidenced by a preference for musicals, Jimmy Stewart and Rogers and Hammerstein is counterbalanced by a preference for Alfred Hitchcock and Humphrey Bogart.
This was fun.
