Starting in the mid-1920s, Hollywood's seemingly all-powerful movie studios controlled the American film industry, creating a period in cinema now recognized as “classic Hollywood”. Distinguished by a practical, professional and "invisible" method of filmmaking - the aim of which was to require as little attention to the camera as possible, classic Hollywood cinema supported constant plotlines (with occasional flashbacks being an exception), an observance of all three: the structure of the act, the frontality and the visibly identified objectives towards which the "hero" must work and a well-defined conflict/story resolution, most often illustrated by the use of the "ending happy ". Studios understood precisely what audiences wanted and catered to their wants and needs, resulting in films that were generally all the same, starring similar (sometimes the same) actors, designed in the same way. It became the primary style throughout the Western world against which all other styles were judged. Although there have been some deviations and experiments with the format over the past 50 years...