Looks like all my posts recently are starting off with old sayings. The latest one tot he list is "Age over Beauty". No matter if it is sports,movies or books the classics will always rule the audience. Maybe its because everyone nowdays its just trying to redo what they have read or seen but you cant help but compare. But who says the greats had to be 50-60 years ago? Wht about in the last two decades?
Tonight at 12 am Australian time in the French Open 2011 Mens Final Roger Federer plays Rafael Nadal. This duo is known as the new age rivalry and even though there are many out there who wanted to see Novak Djokovic in the finals you cant ignore the enthusiasm to see these two play against each other. Tennis fanatics may argue that there were many great players before them but i have just been around for two decades and as far as i know 'Ro-ger' was one of the most common chants i heard in tennis and the only man to challenge that has been Nadal. After India winning the 2011 ICC cricket world cup you suddenly realise the magnitute of Sachin Tendulkar. Gone are the days of Kapil Dev and other cricket legends..Today sachin is litterally refered to as the God of cricket and on the other hand i have not seen anyone bowl as fast as Brett Lee. I may not be that big a sports buff but i do know you can play the same game over the years and somewhere out of the crowd will come out a great player. He doesnt have to be born in 1940..even a 1980 boy will do. All it takes is skill and hard work.
Another genre where people refer to classics is in the entertainment business. My dad always would listen to new artists and say "You want to hear good music, you rewind back a few years and hear the beatles". New age music is many a times condemed as loud and without soul. Old artists could play several instruments while most beats today are created digitally. But there are still people out there listening..Billboard charts still have rankind and 100 million copies are still selling. Music changes cause people change. You can never forget the sound of 'I just called to say I Love You' but you will still smile at a 'When you say nothing at all'. Todays movies are par exellence in form of story,graphics and technicalities. Take for instance epic cartoon such as The Jungle Book which will remain in childrens minds for generations to come, you cannot ignore the impact of 3D movies and the technology used for that. Even in matter of stories, yes it may be the same girl meet boy love story, but dialouges,actors,locations, etc is what makes a movie stand out. Granted not every movie is great..but it was the same case years back as well.
I am 19 i can still read the Harry Potter series ample number of times and yes i can even read Romeo and Juliet and enjoy the language and words. Books that were written by Shakespere were classics but today you have authors like JK Rowling and Stephanie Meyer who created worlds of their own. Nicholar Sparks and John Grisham books are made into movies. Given that marvel comics started years ago but till today digital comics are printed..in better quality by the way.
Media,Sports and Culture keep changing and if you cant accept that its gotten better than u atleast cant say that its gotten worst.
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