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.
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
70s - Dazed and Confused 80s - Wall Street or Ferris Bueller's Day Off Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
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
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
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
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
What country are we talking here?
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I was thinking the US, but Canada or the UK would be awesome too, just label it.
Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
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>
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by SenojRetep: 70s ; Saturday Night Fever
Oh! Good one!
Posted by SC Carver (Member # 8173) on :
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.
Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester:
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.
Posted by Silent E (Member # 8840) on :
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
Posted by MandyM (Member # 8375) on :
1920s- The Great Gatsby
1930s- The Grapes of Wrath (one of my least favorite books ever)
1940s
1950s- Leave it to Beaver
1960s- Anything by the Beatles
1970s- Saturday Night Fever
1980s- Anything by Duran Duran
Posted by MandyM (Member # 8375) on :
LOL I posted before I read anyone else's post. And here I was thinking I was being original. Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
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
Oh, wait. You said best.
I thought you meant worst.
never mind.
Posted by SC Carver (Member # 8173) on :
Breakfast Club is a good one for the 80's
how about Fast Times...
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Everyone who thought, thanks, Dan, uhh love you but ick. Star Trek not definition.
Posted by Omega M. (Member # 7924) on :
The 1920s always make me think of Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, though I admit that it doesn't provide a panorama of the society.
Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :
90's- Seinfeld. Tv show, I know. But it was the 90's, at least for a large segment of America.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
But it was the 90s, and i meant to type TV show.
Posted by theresa51282 (Member # 8037) on :
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
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
TV wise, 70's and 50's are the same show--Happy Days.
Posted by tern (Member # 7429) on :
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
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
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
Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :
1920s Great Gatsby
1930s Of Mice and Men
1940s Citizen Soldiers, D DAY, Band Of Brothers: WWII books by Stephen Ambrose
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