Everything Past Possesses the Present

Last night was the Oscars. It made me think the presence of the past in film. Throughout the ceremony they were doing tributes to all the great film contributors that have died and the great movies of the past (at one time they did a montage of great foreign films of the past and later they did a montage of great American films of the past.) Many of the filmmakers who receive critical and public acclaim profess to being inspired and to even setting scenes up as "throwbacks" to the great films that came before their time. The Oscars stand as an example of how the past affects everything and that even in the short history of film it is obvious. I wanted to make some more direct connections to what we are reading now, the symposium, but all I could think of at the moment was that there is many different movies which portray love in many different ways and there have even been a few movies dealing with the issue of pederasty, though The Woodsman is all I can think of now right now;)