Why is genre fiction frowned upon by literature snobs, yet some

>>9315020
Those movies are not competing with Shakespeare.
Maybe in 1000 years from now we'll get a cinema's Dante, and at that point people will be able to be snobbish about the Godfather too.

> yet some genre films are among the most critically acclaimed of all time?
by who? by /tv/? your mom?
to say godfather is critically acclaimed film is like to say harry potter is critically acclaimed book
my ex pleb girlfriend loves stephen king and godfather, interesting

>>9315020
Becuz movies are for plebs?

>>9315030
You should probably only speak about the media with which you're actually familiar

>>9315020
Idk I see film snobs who shit on Tarantino films and Star Wars but love Bergman, Tarkovsky, and Ozu all the time.

>>9315030
>Those movies are not competing with Shakespeare
>They are literally competing with movies based on Shakespeare plays

I find The Godfather absurdly boring.

Godfather isn't even on a top one thousand list among people who actually watch film lad.

Quality in cinema and quality in literature aren't even remotely the same.

>>9315225
Shakespeare plays are not written for this medium, and its craft has much to do with literature and nothing to do with cinematography. At best you can ssay that there are movies that use plots taken from Shakespeare plays.

>>9315039
It's still a young art, the absolute best directora you can name are still less deliberate and sophisticated than the absolute best poets/writers/composers/painters you can name.
The medium is counky (it needs usually lots of people to be some sort of fluid operation), money is a major factor and the technology is still imrpving by the day. There are great artists in cinema, but there is no Dante, Rembrandt and Beethoven yet.

>>9315053
Tarantino is shit though. Without going into his pathetic attempt at western, you can see that even pulp fiction uses cheap macguffin plot device.

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>>9315242
>"directora"

>>9315242
If Shakespeare is so great then how come none of his "comedies" were ever as funny as The Simpsons?