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In your mind what movie (or book, or musical)represents these decades the best? It could have been made then or later, be about the whole decade or something smaller, and just an idea.
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Good (though I haven't seen dazed and confused).
20s- The Great Gatsby 30s- The Grapes of Wrath 50s- (and what spurred this post) either M.A.S.H. or Rebel Without a Cause
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20's The Great Gatsby 30's The Grapes of Wrath or The Fountainhead 40's The Diary of Anne Frank 50's American Grafitti 60's Hair 70's um, The Brady Bunch? Cheech and Chong? 80's Bonfire of the Vanities
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20s The Great Gatsby; something Chaplin (The Kid) 30s Grapes of Wrath; Philadelphia Story 40s Night (Elie Wiesel); The Third Man 50s On the Road; Rebel w/o a Cause 60s One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest; Easy Rider 70s ; Saturday Night Fever 80s ; Rain Man
Most of the post 60's fiction I've read is either historical fiction or fantasy, so I'm at a loss for novels from those decades. (And, other than "Night" I tried to choose selections actually written/produced during the decade in question). <edit> And I had to change my 60's choice when I found out Catcher in the Rye was written in 1951! Why do I associate it so strongly with the 60s? </edit>
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50's On the Road 70's Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas 80's Top Gun, Back to the Future,
90's Wayne's World, Dumb & Dumber, Office Space
I know its not a book or movie, but to me Grunge music really defines the 90's. A total stripped down response to the over the top 80's.
I don't think there was a movie or book that I know of that really captured that time. When the youth were suddenly feeling there was no way to be more successful than their parents, the divorced yuppies of the 80's. I think the gen. Xer's are still looking for a new definition of success, one that doesn't involve career at all cost.
Maybe you can't really pick what defines a decade until you've been removed from it for a long time.
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quote:Originally posted by SenojRetep: 70s ; Saturday Night Fever
Oh! Good one!
And a surprisingly good movie, IMO. I first watched it for the disco factor, sort of a cultural relic. I was surprised at the quality of the story, the acting and the characters.
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20s: Singin' in the Rain 30s: The Sting 40s: Saving Private Ryan 50s: It's a Wonderful Life 60s: Forrest Gump, maybe? 70s: Saturday Night Fever (although I really, really hate this movie) 80s: Back to the Future (or possibly the Breakfast Club
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1920s- That Star Trek episode where they visit the Gangster world. 1930s- That Star Trek episode where they went back in time to the 1930's. 1940s- That Star Trek episode on Nazi-World 1950s- That fanfic that has Fonzie meet Spock 1960s- Star Trek, the original series. 1970s- Star Trek Reruns 1980s- Star Trek TNG
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The 1920s always make me think of Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, though I admit that it doesn't provide a panorama of the society.
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90's- Seinfeld. Tv show, I know. But it was the 90's, at least for a large segment of America.
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1920s Gatsby 30s- nothing comes to mind for me 40s- The rosy the riveter imagery 50s Leave it to Beaver 60s Beatles/hippie culture 70s Saturday Night Live 80s Micheal Jackson/Saved by the Bell 90s Alanis Morisette/Reality TV
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1920's: The Great Gatsby. 1930's: Seabiscuit 1940's: Band of Brothers 1950's: I Love Lucy 1960's: Easy Rider 1970's: Almost Famous, Saturday Night Fever, and The Chocolate War 1980's: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Top Gun. 1990's: Reality Bites 2000's: The Matrix
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1920s: The Great Gatsby 1930s: Philidelphia Story 1940s: 1950s: Leave it to Beaver, The Catcher in the Rye 1960s: Beatles, Golden Age of Sci fi 1970s: 1980s: Trading Spaces, Dan Ackroyd
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