Don’t tell me the 30s are the Golden Age of Hollywood
when the real magic was when the 60s auteurs came of age.

Those 30s musicals were glamorous escapades designed
to make the poor forget they were poor; they paid
five cents a ticket to pretend they were Fred and Ginger

In the 60s, directors threw out the norms and the pretenses of
old Hollywood and they electrified the screen with fresh ideas.

Bogdanovich, Scorsese, Coppola, Freidken, Peckinpah, and others
took their knowledge and influences to places no one predicted.

Before the studios knew what was happening, someone must have agreed
“Don’t tell me the ’30s are the Golden Age of Hollywood.”

In the 60s, directors threw out the norms and the pretenses of
what old Hollywood thought was a story and made indelible changes.
Some drew influence from their predecessors in their own lauded films.

Others drew a line in the sand and refused to commit
anything to celluloid that wasn’t part of their personal battle.