Ten Movies That Shook Wanniski
Memo To: Website browsers, fans & clients Author: Jude Wanniski http://www.polyconomics.com Re: #8 "Fantasia"
Continuing with the "movie list," here is number eight of the ten films that most shaped my life. These are not my favorite films. They are the movies I've seen that have had the greatest influence on my thinking, my character, my life. Some are favorites that I enjoy watching over and over again, which you can tell as you read each entry. Try to think of your own experiences with films and how they influenced the course of your life. It makes life more interesting to be aware, as you live it, to know how things such as books and films and magazine articles alter your path in significant ways. Sometime last year the Sunday NYTimes "Arts and Leisure" section had a piece on how difficult it is to think of a movie that may have changed history. The only movie they could think of was a silent film by D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation, which had a scene about the KuKluxKlan that the author believes changed national thinking about the KKK. How silly. Each of the ten films listed here changed my history, and if I had not seen them, I would not have helped change history in the ways that I have. Films don't move masses. They move individuals who move masses.
8. "Fantasia" (1940) The first movie I ever saw was a "Buck Jones" western, at the "OperaHouse" on Sunbury Street in Minersville, Pa., where I was born four years earlier. The second film I remember was a Nelson Eddy, Jeannette McDonald warbler, New Moon, also 1940, at the Hollywood Theater in Pottsville, a few miles away. My parents took me to see Fantasia about the same time, but I recall it was at the other Pottsville Theater, the Capitol. What an amazing movie, with cartoons set to classical music! It was my introduction to Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Bach's Tacotta and Fugue and Mickey Mouse as The Sorcerer's Apprentice. I've watched it countless times over the years and believe it was part of the foundation of my love of classical music. You can get it on videotape, but if it shows up on a big screen, take your kids.
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