10-1. don't hate, appreciate.

1952. The year brings to my mind an image of "Pleasantville." Stay at home mothers baking in the kitchen, bread-winning fathers coming home to dinner on the table, and adoring children at their sides. Fast forward twenty years and we see how drugs, alcohol, poverty, and freedoms have transformed society and separated it by age - one with a tight-ass, straight-edge older generation and a troubled, menacing youth. 1972s c"Clockwork Orange" portrays this successfully - and graphically. Gene Kelly's "Singing in the Rain" as used in Clockwork Orange becomes a tool for harsh mimicry, a way for younger generations to say: "Forget your happiness and your love, if you don't realize our pain we'll make you realize it by force." The irony of musical taste in this film is incredible. Gene Kelly is used to punish the innocent, while the classic genius and talent of Mozart is used to save a tattered soul. Is this to say technology has made us forget music as an artistic masterpiece and settle for digital prints??...Perhaps. But with the film's use of classical turned electronic music, it seems the message is more similar to our opera assignment - to take a previously established work of art and use technology to enhance it, so as the times change, the definition of masterpiece needn't change, only expand.