FANTASTIC MOVIES

FANTASTIC MOVIES

The trend to escape of a reality those promotion favorable things for the history and transformation of the cinema was accentuated in those years. A cycle of movies of classic terror, between which there are, included Dracula 1931, of Todd Browning, The doctor Frankenstein 1931, of James Whale, and the mummy 1932, of Karl Freund, went out of the studies of the Universal one, generating a series of sequels and imitations throughout the whole decade. One of the movies that had a great success in ticket office was King Kong 1933, of Merian C. Cooper. In the fantastic kind also emphasized the magician of Oz 1939, of Victor Fleming, musical infantile based on the librode L. Frank Baum led by Judy Garland, who would turn into the first musical artist of the decade of 1940.

 THE ARTISTIC CINEMA

 The production of fantastic movies of Hollywood was tried to compensate during the thirties with more serious and realistic, European movies in his most, as the German El blue angel 1930, of Josef von Sternberg, who announced Marlene Dietrich, or the French The great illusion 1937, of Jean Renoir, considered one of the big antiwar like movies of the history of the cinema. An American filmmaker proceeding from the radio, the writer - director-actor Orson Welles, surprised from his first work with his new settings, Angular aims and sound effects, between other innovations, which extended considerably the cinematographic language. Though it never managed to adapt to the industry of Hollywood, and rarely did he find financial support for his projects, his movies Civil Kane (1941) and the fourth order (1942) had an influence capital in the work of the later filmmakers of Hollywood and of the entire world.