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1. What seems to be the common criteria for defining a movie as a "classic"? 2. What makes a movie a classic? 3. The Guardian 4. http://www.theguardian.com/studio-canal-collection/what-makes-a-classic-movie 5. Website, google search engine 6. Speaker: Journalist, writer for the Guardian, William Goldman, other noted producers and directors Occasion: To explore a question Audience: Readers of the Guardian, movie lovers Purpose: To answer/explore a question Subject: Specific movies, aspects of classics Tone: Casual, speculative, informative 7. Source selects a few key movies to define as classics because they have a certain aspects. These aspects outweigh all others so they can become examples. 8. A classic movie is dependent on innovation, epic sense of scale, sensory overload, rule breaking, controversial aspects, and memorable speeches. 9. Relatively. However, all these aspects address plot and social impact while I'm also interested in direction and acting 10. "no attempt at realism" "thirst for authenticity" "pace never lets up" "zigzags, introduces characters, plot points and even creatures that never, in the usual way, pay off, but his ruthless mash-up of the real and the unreal create the clearest, most grotesque depiction of the Hollywood rat race imaginable."