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The evolution of cinema is a very interesting one. Dating back to the nineteenth century, cinema has developed from the introduction of the silver screen, to TV movies, to pirated copies online.
As modern technology develops and primarily rules a large fraction of population’s lives, almost everything has to bend to suit it. This includes the film industry, whether it be making films like The Social Network which deal entirely with technology, or understanding that, whether anyone likes it or not, pirated films will be on the internet.
Focus on The Lion King, a movie originally released on the silver screen in 1994 – almost 100 years after the birth of cinema – is a time-old Disney classic. It was brought out on VHS, and became a component of homes all over the world, and loved by children of Generation Y. Years passed and The Lion King was released, remastered, on DVD. Not too long after that The Lion King would have been free to all who had internet and skills of prowess, and didn’t care that they were breaking the law, as a pirated copy online. This week The Lion King was re-released in 3D (cinema’s new ‘big thing’). It has been nearly twenty years since its release in cinema, and it has been available all of those years to view on DVD, or VHS if one was sentimental, or online. And yet millions of people will see The Lion King while it’s in the theatre. This is because while technology is causing the film industry to lose money it might get from sales, there is something comforting, if not nostalgic about seeing a long-loved film on the big screen.
So while the film industry needs to understand that modern technology is a very powerful ruler, cinema will never die.
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