What Are The Inspirations Of The 50's

The most interesting decade we covered in class was definitely the 1950s. I am deeply fascinated by this era and all the contributions it made to the cinematic world. The 1950s were a decade of great achievements worldwide and in America it was a time for new innovations and techniques. This decade was influenced by many things, such as, the baby boom, the end of the war, and the problems the youth were going through. This era was the end of innocence; people weren’t responding to the same old stories the movies kept telling them. They wanted something new and something exciting, the youth were not responding to the middle aged cinema. Although Hollywood industries were suffering because of television, cinema still found a way to lure people into

The older generation of people, preferred to stay home and watch the television, while the new generation of young teenagers went to the theaters. And they didn’t want to watch what their parents were watching. So Hollywood filmmakers such as, Fred Zimmermann, Elia Kazan, and Nicholas Ray, had to adjust and make movies to fit their new audiences. And since these incredible filmmakers of the 1950s knew how to captive their audience so well, the seats at theaters were somewhat full once again with masses of youthful audiences. The 50s were full of a new market of youth. This new younger audience was opposed to the older generation’s choice of sentimental films. This era was also full of new captivating actors such as Marlon Brando and James Dean, who were both method actors. I enjoyed watching both actors in movies such as Rebel Without a Cause and A Streetcar Named Desire. I found it empowering how the actors did not hold anything back, they gave it their all and showed every emotion. Both of these movies captured many of the same raw emotions that youth to this day feels and for that reason drew interest from the younger