Live Poll: Back to the Ancestors

I wonder, if I should cut the first part of the intro?

P.S.:
35 possibilities means 35 different users.

Only one per user.First 34 users picks are near to be chosen.
Presentation by your username in the list as suggester.
Please choose wisely. :D No guarantee to be the chosen one. ;))

Great idea! :)

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According to the German wikipedia site, the first commercial cinematic presentation for an audience was 123 years ago in 1895 a.d. on bioskop-format in the Berliner Wintergarten in Berlin, Germany. 

Worldwide: Doc Brown lends you his DeLorean with a proper flux capacitor and two loads of plutonium to travel 100 years back in time to the year 1918, when movies were young, and then back.

That's very interesting and reminds me of a (real) story Béla Balázs told in his book "The Spirit of Film" (1930). It's about a man who was considered an intellectual and was always up to-date with the latest cultural and technological news. Only he lived in a very small village for some time and didn't have the chance to witness the advent of cinema.

After fifteen years, the same man arrives in a big city, and he is eager to go to the movie theater. He goes to see the movies that attract big audiences like comedies, adventure movies, etc. Someone asks him, "so what do you think of those movies?" - "They look fantastic, but I don't have the slightest idea what happened."
Apparently, despite his intellectual capacities, the man was unable to link the shots into a coherent narrative; something that was easy even for children at that time. It was all too developed, too fast and arranged with complex codes. Balázs says, "Four or five years ago, we wouldn't have understood the most simple films that are being made today."
It seems incredible what he writes. Let's be optimistc against these statements. My pick is The Shining. I'd like to see what impact a movie that is frightening even to modern audiences can make on the people of 1918.

That is an interesting thought experiment, especially since movies evolved gradually and so did people's fascination with the medium. Earliest movies just needed to show anything to get the attention (which never prevented even pioneers like Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince or Lumière brothers from experimenting further and actually making some live-action fiction) but chances are that for people not familiar with medium and its rules it would have been impossible to even comprehend what's going on... 

Cinema is like a visual language that we learn just as any other. It is actually what I research from the perspective of political studies, by the way. 

Mad Max [2015]

Any suggestions?

I would show them Vertigo (1958). 

I'm finally up for a suggestion: Highlander (1986). 

If this poll suggestion doesn't reach the 35 suggestions, I would cut it down to 25. But it has time .... ;)

No one else? Really?

Breumaster,

For your consideration:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Thank you Dan! That's great. I'll put it on the list. :D

Like the Idea, Breu.

FYC: Fight Club (1999)

Hello, Ibrahim :)
Very nice you have a suggestion for me. I'll pick it up on the list.
Thank you very much for contributing. :)

I'd show them an apocalypse movie like 2012 and say its a documentary. ;)