Q15

[kpkanupriyakhmi]

Although i the film is rightly judged imperfect by most of today's critics, the films being created today are ________ it, since its release in 1940 provoked , sufficient critical discussion to enhance the intellectual respectability of cinema considerably.
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beholden to
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derivative of
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My doubt why not derivative of
based on why only beholden to
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[tommywallach]

Hey Kp,

"Derivative of" would mean that the more recent films STOLE ideas from that original film. There's no reason to believe this from the text. We only know that they owe a debt to that old film, because it raised the quality of the discussion surrounding film.

-t