While filming his latest movie, Bachchan spoke about filmmaking itself, describing it as great and delicate art where all other art combines to produce one big picture. Painting, music, architecture, writing, everything is combined in order to produce a 90 minute of pure art.

Adding to Bachchan’s statement, Cinema, the 7th art, brings together the first 6 art-types that were described by the German philosopher Hegel in his work „ Lectures on Aesthetics“. The original 6 arts are architecture, sculpture, painting, dance, music, and poetry.

Cinema is looked as a more „commercial“ art, sometimes blamed to lack the aesthetic in comparison to the first 6. Movies have been placed in the entertainment department first and in the art itself later.

Because of that, it has fallen more on the „cheap“ side when comparing to painting or classical music, although exactly these arts often interact in the movie world.

Putting the story aside, observing directors such as Aronofsky or Sorrentino, there are many „artistic rules“ found in their movies — from the golden rule in the frames to a careful combination of colors. These are all aesthetic values that originate from different arts and further down the line, cinema itself has its own artistic rules.

The „thorn on the side“ is, of course, cheap cinema. The back-alley of cinema that ended up in the spotlight. This doesn’t mean a mainstream movie can’t be art. It has often been proved by directors such as Hitchcock, Benigni or Haasan. But everyone knows about which cinema is talked, although some might not admit it. As we have artistic and cheap music, the same distinction can be found in cinema as well.

A lot more could be written on this subject, but to come to the conclusion; cinema is the official 7th art and if it was possible, a museum would be build to keep safe all those great pieces of art. Pieces that we admire and enjoy.

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