Friday, 18 January 2019

Follow The Yellow Brick Road

The ten most influential movies in the western world have been named by the University of Turin.

The Wizard of Oz - Most Influential Movie?
The Wizard of Oz - Most Influential Movie?

They compiled the list order by examining the 47,000 films listed on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb website), and then allocating a influence score to each movie by the number of times it was referenced by subsequent other movies.

The top ten, and in fact the top twenty, were all made before 1980.
  1. The Wizard of Oz (1939).
  2. Star Wars (1977).
  3. Psycho (1960).
  4. King Kong (1933).
  5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Metropolis - A Great Picture In Every Sense
Metropolis - A Great Picture In Every Sense.

    6. Metropolis (1927).
    7. Citizen Kane (1941).
    8. The Birth of a Nation (1915).
    9. Frankenstein (1931).
   10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
Now its fair to say that we have referenced lists of the best movie before, but in those cases, the listings were subjective to one degree or other. This listing is unique, in that its a scientific  determination, based on a films influence on subsequent movies.

The other aspect of this listing that interested me was that I have actually watched all 10 of them. 

2 comments:

  1. "Films influence on other movies" may be an objective measure but it doesn't say whether the film is good to watch or not. They may have great lighting, acting, direction or sets which have inspired film makers without having given much else to an audience.
    An aeroplane may be assembled beautifully and finished superbly, but does it actually fly well? Sometimes it's a tatty old biplane which is best for the job.

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    1. I enjoyed all of the films listed at one time or other, so I thinks its actually proved to be a very good measure of quality.

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