Mmm - I can think of at least three people on my Friends list who are somewhere between content and proud to be iffilmerate, to coin a nonce word.
Speaking as someone who watches possibly ten films a year, so definitely on the low side of filmic literacy, I strongly suspect that there is no set course which will guarantee you understanding of films at large. Spielberg said about his A.I. that he wouldn't mind if people came out of the cinema saying they didn't like it, but he would mind if people came out of the cinems saying they didn't get it. I didn't have the faintest.
Really I tend not to approve of the concept of making assumptions about what cultural icons people will know. I choose my friends and I care about whether I can converse with them, not with arbitrary everypersons. I am much happier being iffilmerate than iggeekerate.
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Speaking as someone who watches possibly ten films a year, so definitely on the low side of filmic literacy, I strongly suspect that there is no set course which will guarantee you understanding of films at large. Spielberg said about his A.I. that he wouldn't mind if people came out of the cinema saying they didn't like it, but he would mind if people came out of the cinems saying they didn't get it. I didn't have the faintest.
Really I tend not to approve of the concept of making assumptions about what cultural icons people will know. I choose my friends and I care about whether I can converse with them, not with arbitrary everypersons. I am much happier being iffilmerate than iggeekerate.