A couple of previous posts we read like the "Citizen Kane" It was once again crowned the best American film in history, a distinction awarded by The American Film Institute (AFI), which is not very surprising, because it is a theme that has been repeated year after year. What is interesting about this recognition is what follows under the mention of the Orson Welles film.
The AFI changes things, and ten years later some films seem better than others, for example, "The Godfather", that ten years ago was in third place now goes to second. The owner of the second place was "Casablanca", but now that Coppola's film went up he had to settle for third place. I wonder if in a few years, they will decide that "The Godfather" was better and they will raise it to the first place.
But not only they change, this decade the AFI brought more surprises. “Raging bull” (wild bull) goes from being the film number 20 to the fourth of the list, as well as “Vertigo”, of Hitchcock, which now occupies the place number 9 and leaves the 61 that touched him before. I imagine how much these movies have improved in the last ten years.
Of the new productions become part of the list of 100, they are “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”(50),“ Saving Private Ryan ”(71)“Titanic”(¿?) (83) and“ Sixth sense ”(89).
Let's hope that in the next ten years critics won't see things like “Harry Potter”Or“ Scary Movie ”. God save us.