A Reflection About Greta Garbo

Well, I have to say that the main reason I love Cinema is thanks to Greta Garbo I started  to feel attracted to Classic Cinema and at the same time I start to love Garbo . Why? The reason is that I find her very mysterious and at the same I always thought she was a very clever woman for her time. She was born in Sweden, she went to Hollywood and became in such a great actress.  In spite she came from a poor family she succeeded in life, given that she really wanted to be an actress and she finally did it after working hard. Besides, her life was not a bed of roses, her mother was a dressmaker and her   father used to work in several professions. So, she was forced to work at the age of fourteen due to her father died of a strange disease and the conditions of her life were not the best. For that reason, she didn’t know how to face the loss of his father, I would say it was the most terrible episode in her life. Nonetheless, she continued with her normal life and tried to get it over.

As regards her personal life, Greta Garbo was a very shy and reclusive woman during her career as an actress, she did hate paparazzis. However, at the beginning of her career, she used to give interviews, besides she attended to the Hollywood events, she seemed to be comfortable in that environment.  But once the Second World War started she left acting   and she decided to be a lonely woman, she didn’t want people to bother her. So, she became to use grey hair, she also used to use big sunglasses in order to people could not see her walking on the crowded streets. Consequently, she moved to New York and bought a luxurious apartment near to central park after she lived in Los Angeles. Thus,   she focused on investing her money in real states and she spent her life collecting paintings from famous artist like Picasso, etc.

In the end, she died how she wanted, just alone and unnoticed. But the truth is that she remained in the hearts of her fans forever, she will be forever the most extraordinary actress I ever met in my life no matter what people say about her. Her movies really proved she was prepared to go further as an actress but she wanted to keep the myth forever. Also the way she lived her life, reflected much of her traumas and the suffering she had do dealt with. Sometimes she felt Hollywood was a world of mad people in which they were cruel without taking into account the values and virtues of people.

The Golden Age Of Cinema

The time of the golden age began when the first big cinema companies arrived to conquer the world, to make people to perceive it in a different way. Cinema was created when the first cameras or image projectors where about to be invented. But the truth is that Cinema was a real thing, it was created in the early XIX and XX century when the customs and all the forbidden things cannot be showed or told. That time was the Victorian era.  It was an epoch of inequalities in which aristocracy played a major role in the society. Therefore, the religious customs were very noticeable rather strict. However, the industry of Cinema was about to start so they were not so affected by the social, economic and political changes around the world. The pioneers of the industry were just looking for something new, for a new art of expression. Thanks to that,   it was able for people to reflect about their own lives that is to say in their way of living and to reflect them at the same time,   On the contrary, anybody imagined that Cinema would be spread globally, so the creation of the film industry was not made on purpose but was made with the aim of experimenting   new technologies, to show people   that someday   the art of the motion pictures  will come true.

 At the beginning of the XX century, acting was not a big thing, people just go to see plays at the theatre and that was all about, there were famous actors that finally proved their talent and charisma on the screen Consequently, all the rising stars started to emerge from the darkness, by the time they were seen on the big screen they were praised, seen such as Gods and Goddesses. It is remarkable to say that they had an incredible power to persuade and even they became a model to follow, they   imposed a trendy in the society. By the time, they provoked millions of emotions and feelings around the world, people was about to know the world of lust too. Additionally, the film industry became step by step in one of the most profitable business around the world. Once people went to the movies realized that it was a complete success in the entertainment world.

Regarding, sexuality   at the very beginning in the 20’s, sexuality was not a matter of importance since it did not exist rules that restrict people’s behavior on the screen. Everybody had fun and also feel free to express themselves, it didn’t matter if someone was gay or not, people just do want they want. If was the time of women’s liberation, women started to have power and were able to control their lives completely. So, this epoch was the time that the industry of Cinema felt free to do what they want ed owing that the censorship didn’t exist. In addition, the image of women was an image of desire, of femme fatale.

The 20’s were a time of plenty,   where a culture of consumerism finally emerged owing to the American period of economical welfare.   At that time, the United States of America was leading the trends, in fashion   and so on. The American model was followed by others, since its politics were focused on the capitalism, so people waste her money in an incredible way. The big Cinema companies were erected, the world of entertainment was gaining a powerful influence, since cabarets, nightclubs were the new fashion in those times. Besides, new musical genres appeared such as Jazz and blues. The nightlife was full of new things, people felt broad minded for that reason they didn’t give relevance to the moral values given that the most important at that moment was money to have fun and satisfy themselves.  The Hollywood industry gained recognition and fame thanks to their big productions, everything was great in those flourishing times.

Nevertheless, with the arrival of the sound at the late 20’s the careers of some of the most famous stars where about to decline. Many of them, didn’t have a good voice to be listened in public, so the careers of some of them just disappeared. Also the biggest productions were restricted at   the moment of creating and innoving due to sound changed the early conceptions and ideas about Cinema, by the time talking movies gained power and succeeded, making the industry bigger every time. So, the silent movies became old-fashioned. Besides,   the way the movies were conceived differently, the scripts were quite different, then there was music and a different kind of atmosphere. 

Another Version of The Knight’s Tale

At this point, the Amazons were looking forward to kill the king Theseus in order they could rule that land, since they were desperate for conquering it and take it away from Theseus. Consequently, those evil women decided to plan a murder for the king because they have nothing, they were poor and they wanted to have power. So, once he arrived they would carry out their evil plan. The eldest woman told them to hide from him. Therefore, she suggested all of them to catch from him as quickly as they can, to torture him until his painful death. As a result, they used the most horrible techniques in order the king couldn’t live anymore. Hence, the king felt like dying and for that reason he agonized until he died due to the bloody torture those women gave him. The women finally obtained what they want by getting the king’s throne.

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

One day he was sat alone on a hill and he started feeling that anything had sense, he was tired and bored in Halloweenland. He was sick of darkness and terror and living the same life. So, he thought about something new. Then, a dog from the darkness came out, it as his old friend “Zero” which was his friendly dog. Consequently, both of them walked all the night when suddenly they saw a doorway to another dimension, Jack   was really scared but he entered to that place.  That special place was Christmas Town, the place he was looking for ages, he was finally happy, amazed, he was surprised with everything, he looked carefully what was there.

He took everything he found on his way. So. Back to Halloweenland a group of known people stayed looking at the presents Jack brought for them. For the next days, he started thinking of spreading happiness and cheerfulness around the town such as Santa did it on Christmas. It was Christmas and Santa was making some toys when he heard the din, he opened the door and there were three ugly children that pushed and took Santa to see Jack. Then, Jack told him his evil plan. He told Santa he will bring good things, however something was weird. They went out in a foggy night and }

Zero guided Jack’s sleigh with a ghostly aspect. Everything was so macabre that night that all children had horrible nightmares full monsters and creatures. Each thing was converted in a horrible thing but Jack didn’t realized about it. He was in in sleigh and there was a kind of noise dawn there but Jack didn’t realize there were bullets trying to kill him.

In the end, he forced Zero to go higher but they couldn’t. Jack was thrown in a cemetery, pulled in large stone cross, and he thought he could be Santa for a while, he was confused and sad, he looked up to the sky, then he stayed on the grave and he started to cry. All of a sudden Zero and Jack heard someone. It was Santa and he thought, taking over Christmas was the wrong idea, due to Jack belonged to Halloween because the truth was Jack have ruined Christmas. Later on, Santa hurried to prepare for Christmas and bring back the Christmas spirit.

THE EARLY BEGINNINGS OF CINEMA

Before the birth and the arrival of cinema it was considered a fantasy, people just imagine how could it be, they just got hypothesis about it.  With all the advances at that time in   the technological field the conception of making movement on the screen revolutionized the world. During the following years many changes occurred. Among them, the creation of the magic lantern used to project images, the camera and the cinematoscophe. Thanks to pioneers a new era in the motion picture was about to begin.

Everything begun with a new item known as the lantern which was able to capture images through an illuminated lens which allowed the inventors of this new trend to give the first stages in filming trying to show an entire sequence of pictures with a particular technique. Nevertheless, the most significant stage in the early cinema was when Edweard Muybridge caught the first motion picture ever taken which demonstrated to public a new way to perceive life. However, the cinematoscophe created by the Lumiere Brothers proved to be the greatest invention since it molded and technified the way to watch movies, leading the future of the Cinema one step forward. Thanks to that device, movies were finally seen on screen. One of the most fruitful times back then was the silent era in the 20’s where businessmen invested their money to build a new empire full of rising stars. At that time, silent movies were mysterious and had a kind of magnetism regards   their nature.

 All in all, Cinema is acknowledged as one of the seven marvels of the world. Motion pictures left a huge trace to follow generations, they showed us another world; a world of fantasy in which human emotions were involved in an amazing way.  The art of filming is not entertainment but a way to express our feelings and also see the world differently in order to build a new one.