01-05-2021, 12:07 PM
(01-05-2021, 11:16 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Civic generations are slow to develop any creative ethos. I'm going to guess that the first strong creative figures of the GI generation to get significant recognition was Walt Disney for his innovative cartoon "Steamboat Willie" that introduced Mickey Mouse in America and the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose First Symphony was his submission as his graduation piece at the Leningrad Conservatory at the age of 19 -- and this work stands up well. Disney and Shostakovich would both do much in their respective arts... and there would be others. Disney and Shostakovich were early-bloomers by GI standards. Not until Citizen Kane do we have a film that has its creativity associated largely with the GI Generation; Big Band music has its start with figure then mostly in their 30's. Kurosawa's reputation as a director did not take off until he was in his late thirties.
Here is DSCH's First Symphony:
This is an impressive First, wouldn't you say? Remember -- this is by a nineteen-year-old prodigy who kept maturing even if the Soviet state tried to make a cultural stooge out of him.
I would guess that many of the creative employees at such studios at Pixar and Marvel are Millennial... but the directorship there is still Boom and X.
(In case you wonder, I am a Boomer and I associate Generation X with far more creativity than mine).
Actually, Millennials have so far produced some talented filmmakers who I think show great promise, among them being Greta Gerwig, Safdie Bros, Ari Aster, Robert Eggers, Ryan Coogler, Damien Chazzelle.