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It’s the weekend, so what could be better than an argument! We’ve got your back. You’ve come to the right place. This edition of The Great Debate was inspired by some news we featured yesterday about the Library of Congress and its National Film Registry. Specifically, the 2025 selection of movies set to be preserved.
While enjoying the fact that movies close to our heart, such as The Thing, were selected this time around, my eye moved further up the list to some movies that are 100 years old at the time of induction:
The Lady (1925)
Sparrows (1926)
Ten Nights in a Barroom (1926)
This set me thinking. 100-year-old movies seem like they might as well be from the Dark Ages. Yet some of our beloved classics are already advancing in years. Just last summer, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Jaws. So this debate is a simple one. Fast forward fifty years into the future, to the year 2076:
What movies from our era, that will be around 100 years old by then, will be important enough for people to still be talking about them, or choosing to preserve them in the National Film Registry?
If they are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically” significant, then you could make a few arguments in favor of some massively mainstream movies we have seen in our lifetimes. Gentlemen (and ladies), start your arguments!
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