Notorious Hollywood classics seen in a brand new way

It's time for us to take a long, hard look at the word "classic." It's a term accorded to works that, in the eyes of those who decide such things, have allegedly "stood the test of time" and become part of a canon of exceptional expressions of human creativity. Being an informed and sophisticated person requires a familiarity with classics, and much of our education is built around these works. The classics define culture, and they define being "cultured."