Take me to the movies...take me to the show!

I love old movies from the 20s and 30s.  There's just this simple elegance about them that astounds me and the innocence of the conversations dazzle me.  However, there are a lot more movies than I thought there were.  In my film class that I'm taking this semester (which is far inferior to the one of last semester), we were able to watch silent films, some of which were good, like Charlie Chaplin's films (the one we watched was about an ice skating waiter...) and some were just primitive and boring (I really need to pay attention to what I'm watching).  Tonight we got to watch The Jazz Singer, which was actually pretty good.  It was about this young fifteen-year-old Jewish boy who sang jazz instead of the religious hymns.  His father wanted him to sing for Yom Kippur, but the boy rebelled and ran away.  He then turned into a star and when he returned, his father forbade him from the house.  The father then got sick and the son sang the song that he should have years ago.  It was better than I'm making it sound, only because new technologies were in production, including sound (conversations and singing! well ok, one conversation, but still, it was unheard of back then) and special effects (like the appearance of the father as a ghost when the son was singing).  I love movies from around that time.  My friends said once that I was born about 60 years too late.   I think that's true.  Maybe not.  I love technology too much.