Quick thing to remember when watching older films:

In any given era, moviegoers have made a tacit agreement to accept certain affectations and artifices. Like, today's moviegoers accept cartoonishly gravelly voices and weird desaturated color.
These artifices seem pretty seamless and invisible when the movie is new but as time passes, new artifices are added to the agreement and old ones are discarded. If enough time passes, the agreement changes completely.
So, older films are not necessarily less realistic that new ones. Heck, silent movies regularly used full-size and fully-functioning sailing vessels and when the screenplay called for a town to be burnt, they grabbed the matches.
What I'm saying is that modern affectations are just as phony as older ones and that's the nature of cinema. We won't be able to see the modern ones clearly until we have the benefit of hindsight. But don't think for a moment that the modern method is the only way.
Movies have always been about enhanced reality, with the level of enhancement varying from generation to generation. And there were/are different acceptable levels within the same period.
tl;dr I am so looking forward to people who proclaim older movies to be "weird" attempting to show their favorite 2010s and 2020s movies to their uninterested and bored grandkids. 🤣
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