Movies

Listened to David Mamet on the Treatment.  Other than Red Belt, I'm generally more interested in what Mamet says about his work than the work itself these days.  He makes an interesting claim:  movies are dead, but old movies live.

I wonder whether in my lifetime the theater going experience will cease and movies will essentially become relics, theaters supported by public money and showing just old classics.  It seemed unthinkable just 15 years ago and to some extent, still unthinkable today, but rate at which certain entertainment type of things change is pretty unprecedented.

Then again, this realization only makes my desire to make movies more urgent to get one in before they disappear altogether, like a soldier fighting in the Pacific Theater in the last days of WW2.