Amirae's Blog Post 3#

         In the article “How Does Hollywood Handle Ageism” a conversations between long time films producers, Dorothea and Daniel Petrie, express how they feel about age in the movie making business. In today's culture a younger generation of movie makers are increasing. These younger individuals tend to feel that old people are not physically able and aren't up to date. This makes younger producers more ideal, but as Dorothea responds, that “often, however, they're uncomfortable about exercising authority over someone older.” (D. Petrie, par 3) Both Dorothea and Daniel believe it is important to have a vast of different ages working together and old age should not be a limitation or an issue. They continue to say that aging doesn't stop, but the maturity from the older generation can be effective toward the growth of others. Lately there has been a desire from the public to see more old people in movies, especially when Daniel directed Cocoon 2. The Petries believe that the older population in movie production has “become a trend” and “hope that trend will continue”as time progresses.

                                                               Work Cited

Media&Values “How Does Hollywood Handle Ageism?” Center for Media Literacy, No Date,  
             Web 11 Nov. 2013

http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/how-does-hollywood-handle-ageism