Introducing Classics

I have not been writing for a while now. One thing I had in mind to do when I started this blog is something I have not done yet: sections, you know, like specific colums in a newspaper. Something that comes back every week or so with a new content but maybe the same theme, or the same tone, or the same author.

Having to think of what a section of mine could be about, I figured "classics" right away. Ever since I was a little girl, I was deeply impressed by the movies that were in black and white, or those in which the girl had to throw back her head like that to kiss the guy holding her by the arms, or those in which the voices of  men were so deep and structured, or those in which they were dressed like that, and where they sang like that.

With no doubt whatsoever, I decided that I am going to create a section very easily called "Classics". In it, I am going to group the posts we have already written that fall in the category for a starter. The "category" is made up of movies/actors/directors/styles and so on and so forth that are long dead. No seriously, let's say that they need to be from at least some 30 years ago. Of course, being old is not what makes a classic. A classic is such despite being old, not because of it, that's the whole point. Actually, sometimes, we have the luck to witness to the birth of a new classic: it happens when you find yourself thinking "this is going to go down to history". I would not exclude such miracles from this section.

Sometimes, when I watch a new release or the same movie from the hundreth time, I start wondering if it is right to "waste" time with those when there must be hundreds of movies from the old age I have not seen yet. I ask myself: isn't it like trying to learn how to read without knowing the alphabet? Then I realize that many children don't really know the alphabet when they start reading, because most of them learn how to read before they go to school. This realization does not entirely make what I call "the guilt of the classics" go away, but it helps me understand that every gem can be preciuos and thus worth collecting.

But enough with the divagations.

Henceforth, the structure of "Classics" is going to be this: every week (altough constance is not my think), I will enter in this section a new related post. Within the section, it could be that there are other series, maybe related to a stream, or to a specific actor and so on. A warning is due here: sometimes, the object of the post is going to be so well known that people are going to think "really? this?". But hey, every classic is original and still worth the hype.